Archive for the year 2005
Extinct Native American Tribe Finds Second Wind
by Neal Stewart Duuya Herbst, taking the tribe to SL “The tribes are taking over the world [...] Tribes are agendas. Aesthetics. Ethos. Traditions. Ways of getting things done. They’re competitive. They may not all be based on time-zones. There are knitting Tribes and vampire fan-fiction Tribes and Christian rock tribes, but they’ve always existed.”– [...]
Full StoryDiary of a Second Life Noob, part 2
by Montserrat Snakeankle [In Montserrat's last entry, posted many many SL moons ago, we found her coping with inadequate hardware and a failed attempt to enter SL. In this post, after a $2K upgrade, Montserrat gets back on the horse that threw her.]
Full StoryRising from the Ashes: The SimCast Gaming System
by Matthias Zander Many remember the splitting of ways that the SimCast development team suffered in November of last year, and the call for an open-source gaming system that followed. This was all caused by the departure of the project’s head programmer, Azelda Garcia. Like the mythical phoenix, however, the project has risen from the [...]
Full Story‘people think I’m teh sexy’: A Conversation With SL’s Charles Manson Stalker
by Neal Stewart grandduke Ferdinand, sometime Charles-Manson-look-alike. Stalker or teh sexy? Griefer or misunderstood? Recently, a Second Life resident reported on her blog an incident that she had experienced in-world: For some time, an avatar dressed as Charles Manson had hung around the bedroom of her virtual residence, watching her and brandishing a knife. She [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl Daphne Molinari
The Herald is pleased to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, just a day later than usual because of some server problems we’ve been experiencing. This week’s girl is Daphne Molinari. Daphne is a long-time resident of SecondLife who is very involved in the modeling world, being an officer of the Top Models group [...]
Full StoryHellsing Hath no Fury Like Jenna Scorned
Jenna Fairplay: dethroned dwell queen, but still queen of negs given In a story that has it all — adult clubs, jealousy, specious abuse reporting, alleged Linden favoratism, and Arab-American tensions — it appears that dethroned dwell queen Jenna Fairplay has successfully organized an abuse reporting campaign against rival club owner Hellsing King (owner of [...]
Full StoryThis is a Nipple Free Zone
Tony at Clickable Culture reports that the Lindens are cracking down on Stormy Roentgen’s sculptures in PG areas because they have… …n-n-n-nipples! Even STONE NIPPLES! — clearly the most offensive kind. Stormy is reportedly now supplying nipple free statues.
Full StoryLuck Has Nothing To Do With It
A Second Life Herald parable The following is a chat log of an actual SL conversation, submitted by a pair of luckless gamblers for your edification. Not one word has been changed. Poker Player #1: you wanna hear a funny story? Poker Player #2: sure
Full StoryOh Mentor, My Mentor
by Neal Stewart Haney Linden fields an inquiry “Wow, a Linden!”, exclaims an excitable avatar in Welcome Area South 4. Haney Linden is a key officer in the Instructor, Live Help and Second Life Mentor groups. She has just teleported to the area and is greeted – like all Lindens – in much the same [...]
Full StoryGetting Natural
by Brody MacDonald For those who think of Montmartre as only a fascinating island of paths and sculptures and all sorts of things to see and experience, a recent visit revealed even more to the place than at first meets the eye. After a tour of the island, your correspondent and his companion happened to [...]
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