Archive for October, 2006
Just in time for Herald 3rd Birthday: Lost Daily Show Episode Discovered!
Finally someone put this on YouTube. Following is your link to the classic Daily Show episode in which correspondent Rob Corddry dives into our reportage of the TSO cyber-brothel scandal. Along the way he confronts EA spokesman Jeff Brown for being a “cheetah-deleter,” leans about “rough granny sex”, and wets himself a whole lot. Oh [...]
Full StoryAnother Reality Check from the MSM: Daily Telegraph Interviews Media Mack Daddy, Peter Ludlow
No sooner did I link to the the story by Mark Glaser with his smackdown on the hyperventilating Business Week story, but now The Daily Telegraph from the UK has signed up for Herald Reality Therapy ™ and offers part one of an interview with the always fairly unbalanced ™ typist for Urizenus Sklar. The [...]
Full StoryFinall! A Reality Check Comes from the MSM
Mark Glaser of PBS has finally tapped the brakes on what has been the unrelenting hyperventilation about Second Life by the Mainstream Media. Kudos to Tony Walsh, whose calls for reflection seem to have caught Glaser’s attention. My favorite remarks by Glaser were the one’s reserved for Business Week: BusinessWeek, rather than set up its [...]
Full StoryAnd Then There Were 99,999,999: Virtual Candidate Drops Out
By Prokofy Neva, Political Affairs Desk Did anybody notice? In Lindenverse, we’re so surrounded by huge swathes of cotton wadding in the form of push-media coming from the white expanses of the newsless LL Blob, the Big Business corporate-speak press releases, the breathless paid-for blogola, the hyped, hyperventilating hypervents with their 39 avatars lagging out [...]
Full StoryBen Folds’ New Song: Second Life Mutha-F-ers Need to get a Real Life
Fresh from F-bombing Second Lifers in an underwhelming performance at the SONY Island in Second life Ben (Hasbeen) Folds has been hard at work in his studio writing about the life-altering roof-shifting experience that is Second Life while doing shots of Jaeger with Mel Gibson and arranging the adoption of a Malawi orphan via Skype. [...]
Full StoryTop 25 Screenshots in Herald History!
BallerMoMo King, back in the day. We continue our lead-up to the Herald third birthday party on Wed Thursday the 26th at 2PM, with a stroll down memory lane with some classic screenshots from the Herald archives.Following are Uri’s choices for the top screenshots in the Herald library (which is to say that not all [...]
Full StoryThe Dog That Didn’t Bark: The Stable Linden
By Dow Jonas, Inworld Economy Desk Argghhh…Here I am, on the Herald yacht for weeks…lazily trailing through the Caspian Sea after my all-expense-paid trip to Baku to discuss the emerging presence of oil companies in Second Life (watch this space!). I left last month thinking the Herald was in the capable hands of Pixeleen; there [...]
Full StoryI Owe My Soul to the Company Store
By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk Further publicity write-ups of the General Motors/Pontiac invasion of Second Life prompt this veteran Herald reporter devoted to the old press corps motto “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable” to ask some hard questions. So.. they’ll give you free land on the 6 sims to be called Motorati, [...]
Full StoryHello Grayness My Old Friend
Good Afternoon, everybody! This is Meteorologist Prokofy Neva high atop the Pharos Lighthouse in Ross bringing you Weather on the Ones! Conditions remain unpredictable throughout the grid. Heavy thunderstorms of gray squares everywhere — the Lindens have to make *something* give to accommodate the huge influx of new citizens straining the Central Asset Asshat [...]
Full StoryAds For Login Screen?
Will LL sell space on the login page? By Fiend Ludwig Don’t web pages usually include ads? Re: Second Life 1.12.3(1 & 2) Beta Josh Linden Says: “… – there’s a shiny new web-based login screen! “But Josh,” you ask, “aren’t you Lindens supposed to be fixing bugs instead of adding flashy features to the [...]
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