Archive for the year 2005
Love Affairs, Death Threats and Scandals, Oh My!
by Pat the RatHerald columnist Pat the Rat (right) with one of his many “sources” Recent comments on the Herald site have inspired the editors to send out little old me, intrepid columnist Pat the Rat, to find out what’s really going on! Keep in mind most mafia folks are tight-lipped about their business (well, [...]
Full StoryThe Geeks Are Coming!
by Budka GroshommeA fanatical group of science fiction fans in northwest Indigo sim has built some kick-ass space ships that are now poised ready to sally forth to destroy the Alliance, the Borg, or the Klingons! Or perhaps they’re just getting ready to attack the puzzling array of oversized teddy bears ranged along a bluff [...]
Full StoryHammie Blows Lid off FIC ZombiFICation Center
Free thinking SLers are converted into slaves of the Feted Inner Core (image stolen from NWN) In what is doubtless his finest work to date as a virtual journalist, Hamlet Linden of New World Notes (the House Organ of Linden Lab) broke his leash and gave the hand that feeds him a good chomping by [...]
Full StoryForget the Turing Test, How about the Paula Abdul Test?
In an extremely interesting post on Terra Nova, Nathan Combs talks about scripting dance animations on second life. I’m never really sure what Nathan is saying, but his post contains speculation that the animations have an odd kind of community-forming function. He then speculates on the possibility more unpredictable dancers and wonders if one might [...]
Full StoryThe W-Hat Birthday: Cake, Ice Cream and Murdered-Hooker Bloodbath (2/2)
By Neal Stewart It’s the quick and the dead in Second Life. The murdered hooker I found at Baku today is not the murdered hooker she was yesterday. Yesterday’s corpse had character. A furry, she lay there with eyes closed and brows wrenched, as though her eternal sleep was wrought by nightmares. And who could [...]
Full StoryThe W-Hat Birthday: Cake, Ice Cream and Murdered-Hooker Bloodbath (1/2)
By Neal Stewart 24 hours ago, the W-Hats celebrated their 1-Year Birthday in Second Life at their “W-Hat Super Happy Fun Time Land”. “Cake and ice cream for every girl and boy!”, read the event listing. In classic W-Hat fashion, a host of neon pigs, robots, smoking chimpanzees and wheelchair-bound Mad-Hatters laughed and danced away [...]
Full StoryFashion Show Review: Dark Angels
by Matthias Zander Tonight’s fashion show (once again by BeCa Models, but the next one that I could actually cover after the last one), once more at E City, featured Angenlina Becquerel and Simmy Lomax of Dark Angels Designs. Though only the first 10 (and a half) outfits were shown, it was quite successful, as [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl – wench Phaeton
The Herald is pleased to present this week’s Post Six Grrrl – wench Phaeton. Wench helps run Transylvania, and manages the Gothique Mall there. A big thank you goes out to Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players Magazine (available at Semang (208, 170)), who is responsible for these pictures and all of the Herald’s Post [...]
Full StoryNew Scientist: The Walls are Crumbling!
New Scientist has a short article on how Sony’s new Station Exchange (reported earlier in the Herald) is yet more evidence of the crumbling walls between the real world and virtual worlds. Of course we’ve heard this from the French before, but this time they quote a real live American Philosopher from a land grant [...]
Full StoryFashion Show Review: Fallingwater Cellardoor and HoseQueen McLean
by Matthias Zander In light of the riveting story that Chipsen broke to us this morning, I decided that it was time for the Herald’s fashion department to kick into full gear and begin production of reviews of fashion shows and clothing lines by some of SL’s more recognisable designers. Tonight’s topic is the fashion [...]
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