Archive for February, 2006
Real-World Music Festival to Fund SL Events
The Foundation For Rich Content — which we covered when it started up last year — is now inviting Second Life users to an Alabama of the mind. The FFRC, which provides private grants to SL residents to help fund “events and projects that enrich the cultural scene of Second Life,” recently teamed up with [...]
Full StoryConfessions of a Gorean Slave, Part 1
As I said in the comments to my retirement post, I have a few things left in the hopper that I will be posting, so that I might go out with a bang, rather than a wimper. The following is part 1 of a 5 part story by humdog on her life as a Gorean [...]
Full StoryLove and Pixels
I never tire of writing about Diamond Hope, the hot young av who found a real-world husband after appearing in the pages of the Herald. So now, in my guise as uber-journalist Mark Wallace, I’ve put her in The Escapist as part of its Valentine’s Day issue. The piece recaps the story of young Di’s [...]
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Urizenus Announces Retirement
Famed cyberjournalist and virtual media mogul, Urizenus Sklar, announced his retirement today, shortly after a hunting trip with Dick Cheney and executives from Haliburton and IGE. In a statement released by the Herald Offices, Urizenus (Uri to his multitudinous friends) announced that he would be turning the Herald over to his trusted Editorial Director, Walker [...]
Full StoryNew SL Developers Circle Develops — Residents Cry FIC
by Walker Spaight Seventeen Second Life content-creators met with Linden Lab evangelist Reuben Linden yesterday in an attempt to hash out some of the issues facing in-world developers, and to create some kind of shared resource for people who derive their income from SL activities. But when organizer Hiro Pendragon attempted to go public with [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl Sasun Steinbeck
We at the Herald are extremely happy to present this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Sasun Steinbeck! Sasun is an active artist in the SecondLife art community who says she loves exploring all of the artwork that is out there. Our thanks go to Daphne Molinari of Daphne’s Delights and Forever Yours for preparing this week’s [...]
Full StoryKremlindens Plan Mass Weddings for St. Valentine’s Day
by Pat the Rat Following in the footsteps of many totalitarians and cult leaders throughout the ages like the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Kremlindenlab has announced that on Valentine’s Day, it will hold a mass wedding. The bubbling, irrepressible Bub Linden will be on hand to perform the staggering, sim-lagging event. In a Linden forums [...]
Full StorySecondLife Game Developers’ Expo: Participants Chosen
As Hamlet Linden posted within the past hour, the participants of this year’s SecondLife Game Developers’ Expo have now been chosen based on the number of nominations they received on the forums. The Expo, which unlike years past will not feature a professional game developer coming in to evaluate the games and help choose the [...]
Full StoryHerald TV: Exclusive Footage of the Janet Jackson Wardrobe Malfunction!
Yes, we know that SL is full of 1337 machinima crews making lots of 1337 machinima. But in the Herald we prefer the grainy, gritty reality that we get from the cheap ass video cameras used by our faithful readers and reporters. Do you have a video of a mafia hit? A protest? A socialist/skinhead [...]
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