Archive for the year 2005
Mafia Massacre at Art and Creamy’s Wedding
By Gina Fatale So you thought the Herald forgot about the mafias? Never! This just in the newly formed Cinquetti Family pulled a hit on an ex-member’s wedding, declaring it’s personal! Read on my mafia lovers…
Full StoryAnniversary CelebraFICation Leads to Coco’s Party Protest
Coco and friend protest FIC display at 2nd anniversary celebraFICation. One would think that an anniversary party would be a time for everyone to come together, but this being Second Life, and our benefactors being the Linden’s, the SL Second Anniversary Party appeared to be in no small measure a celebration of the Feted Inner [...]
Full StoryFashion Show: Jaded Visions
by Chipsen Queso This evening, I attended the Jaded Visions fashion show at the new DoveVogue runway studio. My first surprise was that I wasn’t banned from the land. After how much Palomma and I squabbled, I suppose I figured I would be. I also expected that Tipsico would be packed: once again, I was [...]
Full StoryTiny Little Troublemakers!
Oh sure, they look all small and cute and innocent, but they way they look at you… Beady little eyes. Dirty littlepaws. Scheming little minds. Just look at they way they’re looking at ME. Look at them! Will the Lindens PLEASE do something about this new menace in Taco? Damn Tinies!
Full StoryFashion Show Review: Liz and Co.
by Matthias Zander After a bit of a break, the Herald’s fashion show reviews are back in action, starting with today’s fashion show by the SABORLATINO models of the designs by Lizzie Daguerre. Lizzie’s designs are, overall, absolutely gorgeous and simple, yet very detailed. The flowers for this wedding show were provided by Fallingwater Cellardoor [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl: Colette Meiji
We at the Herald are happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Colette Meiji! You may know Colette from meeting her at the club that she owns, or an any of the other many things that she is active in here in SecondLife. Thanks, as always, to Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players [...]
Full StoryStream On…
Well, ok, the Lindens have a link that gives streaming live video from in the game. If you are like me you’ll be able to watch it for 30 seconds or so before you feel that sense of boredom that you haven’t experienced since the summer after 6th grade. I’m not sure what its supposed [...]
Full StoryGames, Learning, and Second Life
Terra Nova has a preliminary report from The Games Learning and Society conference, with notes from the talks by Henry Jenkins and James Gee. Almost on cue, there is an interesting related post by Zero Grace on Clickable Culture. It does seem like games are promising environments for learning, but Second Life seems disappointing in [...]
Full StoryHappy Second Birthday, Second Life!
W00t! The coolest virtual world you’ve ever been to officially turns two years old today, and the Grid rejoices with a party that will be all about “remembering the past and celebrating the future.” Head over to the intersection of Bethel, Brilliant, Fortuna and Georgean sims at 3pm game-time and don’t be shy about dipping [...]
Full StoryEditorial: Sympathy for Prokofy Neva
Prok, then Dyerbrook, delivers a lamp to an SSG property in Alphaville. The Herald has long been familiar with the antics of Prokofy Neva. We first encountered him in his incarnation as Dyerbrook on TSO where we witnessed his campaign against the Sim Shadow Government, which he perceived to be a kind of virtual aristocracy, [...]
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