The Alphaville Herald

Fashion Show Review: Adriana DaSilva

by Matthias Zander Tonight, I attended a fashion show presented by the SABORLATINO group for a designer I had never heard of, Adriana DaSilva. When Mariposa Martinez, the host, first walked out on the stage (shown above in the Seniorita Gown), I began to immediately think that I would definately have to shop at Adriana’s [...]

Kremlinden Lab to Second Life Superior Court: Change Your Name!

Kremlinden Lab has reportedly asked Judge Churchill and Judge Mason to change the name of the Second Life Superior Court, on the grounds that it might convey the impression that the Court is sanctioned by Linden Lab. Reached at press time by the Herald, Judge Churchill has indicated that he is happy to comply and [...]

Hammie Jumps on the Potboiler Bandwagon

Clickable Culture clues us in to the news that Hammie Linden is going to pull his articles together to craft a book on life in Second Life. Coming on the heels of the announcement of the bockbuster book deal inked by world renowned metaverse journalists Walker Spaight and Urizenus Sklar (and given the leaked portions [...]

Wells Fargo Harnesses FIC Labor for Stagecoach Island

A few days ago Clickable Culture reported the opening of Stagecoach Island, a private island built expressly for Wells Fargo, and not accessible via the mainland. It’s stated goal is to “help young people learn financial responsibility” (translation: the goal is to establish brand loyalty at an early age). Now our friend Daniel Terdiman has [...]

Post Six Grrrl Joyla Vasilopita

I am happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Joyla Vasilopita! Joyla is a long-time Internet gamer who says that SecondLife has held her attention more than any other on-line game or virtual community and she, of course, loves shopping! Many thanks to Heart Wishbringer and Joe Stravinsky for photographing and submitting this [...]

Here Come da Judges: Second Life Superior Court is Now in Session

We were hoping to see experiments like this. Two law school students, Judge Mason and Judge Churchill (Churchill is the Herald alumnus who wrote about the ESRB under the pseudonym “J”), have opened a court in second life. The idea is that residents may take disputes to the court to be settled according to The [...]

Herald Comix

Slash Dotted Yet Again

The leaked pages from the forthcoming Herald potboiler have yielded yet another Slash Dotting and discussion of the leading journalists of the metaverse: me and Walker. Some comments are not so kind: “typical ignorant stuckup journalist”. Another suggests I should log into Second Life where I would learn that everyone is 25 or older. Riiiiiight. [...]

Herald Pundits Give Rise to Intellectual Hand Wringing

You may recall that some weeks back we reported the EVE Online heist in which a guild was infiltrated and $16K US in assets were ripped off. All legal in the game. Heartless Herald Editor Walker Spaight was overjoyed: “it doesn’t get much better than this.” But former Herald reporter Neal “Love Beast” Stewart wasn’t [...]

As Plague Tears through WoW, we wonder: Can it happen here?

For those of you who are hermetically sealed in your own little game, you may not have heard that there is a plauge tearing through Wow. As discussed on Alice, Clickable Culture, Terra Nova, and elsewhere, the facts as originally reported in Shacknews Forums, are these: Blizzard adds in a new instance, Zul’Gurub. Inside is [...]