Archive for the year 2005

Photo Essay: A Day at the Races

I suddenly had an urge to see auto racing in SL, and checked my events list on the off chance there might be such, and what do ya know, there was! I dropped in on the Tahiti International Raceway which is floating up above Tahiti Isle. As you might expect, sitting above a Mall is [...]

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WTF? Teen on Teen Grid Suspended (Banned?) for Associating with Adult??

The Second Age blog — our window onto the Teen Grid – has had one of its reporters — named “782″ –banned from the game and the forum for associating with an adult. Which of course leads us to ask: why the fuck was an adult in there? Here is the note that the reporter [...]

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Lindens Poach 2

David Parks Lindens have hired There cofounder Jeffrey Ventrella, and Dave Parks from RIT”s MUPPETS project — an academic/educational/open source version of SL. Zero Grace and the commentors on Cory’s blog are all sprung over the hiring of Ventrella, but I always figure you get more mileage from a mutant undergrad computer graphics d000d, and [...]

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CoryD Comes to Town, Leaves Town

by Prokofy Neva Cory Doctorow‘s book signing took place amid the usual sim-crashing, alphabet-soupy, av-pushing and kewl-kid posturing we’ve come to associate with SL events — the events listing led to the wrong sim–tps led to gnashing one’s teeth outside the right sim…and you really had to *know somebody* — a Linden preferably — to [...]

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Big Babies and Strange Sims

OK, Jack Thompson is turning up his offensive on EA for Sims 2 mods. Earlier we reported his statement in Gamespot that Sims 2 is “worse than hot coffee” and subsequent to that we posted his letter to the attorney at EA (copied to Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman etc). In his latest missive he has [...]

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Skin Review: Kathmandu Gilman

by Chipsen Queso Continuing with the Herald’s series of skin reviews, I recently purchased Kathmandu Gillman’s white tiger skin, along with female accessories, in order to review it. I am not a furry, and have never desired to be a furry, but Kathmandu is well-known for his realistic furry skins, one of the ones I [...]

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EA Gets Jacked! Naughty Mod Scandal Goes Nucular [sic]

Ohhh baby, you *know* how much the Herald hates to say we told you so… well ok, we rather like it…but this one is particularly delicious. The Herald has come into possession of the following letter written by anti-video game activist and attorney Jack Thompson to the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary (and VP, but [...]

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Jack Thompson: “Sims II is Worse than Hot Coffee!!!!”

Just yesterday we were predicting that “the other shoe tree” would drop on EA in the wake of major media discovering dirty mods. Today it is not only dropping, but it looks like a full-on Imelda Marcos shoe tree full of trouble. Gamespot is reporting that Miami Attorney and anti-gaming activist Jack Thompson has taken [...]

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Post Six Grrrl Anonymous Fox

The Herald is happy to present to you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Anonymous Fox! Anonymous is (obviously) an arctic fox who enjoys being pet by her friends and cuddling with her very close friends, especially her partner. I’d like to take a moment to thank Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players Magazine for these [...]

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Major Media Discovers Dirty Mods!

TSO modded with the Kingware Nude Skin Patch Well gosh golly, it looks like the NY Times, the LA Times, and Hillary Clinton have finally caught up with Clickable Culture and have discovered dirty mods for Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas! The GTA San Andreas Hot Coffee mod is a bit different than the usual [...]

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