Archive for November, 2006
Get a Life – Reader Survey
by Heartun Breaker, syndicated advice columnist. KIND READERS: Getting to know you over the past few weeks has been a rare honor — one that truly humbles me at times. To better serve you, and strengthen the Get A Life column, my editor Pixeleen Mistral and I met with the Herald’s consultants at Monkey Business [...]
Full StoryBetter Bashing in Gorean Sims Could Hurt Role Play
[editor’s note: Take-a-Gorean-to-Lunch day is this thursday. To prepare, our Gorean-theme week continues with Heartun Breaker's report on the combat systems of Gor. After reading this story, even noobs can sound like experts on fighting in Gor -- in case taking about slaves over lunch feels awkward.] by Heartun Breaker Mykael Goodman has a better [...]
Full StoryHere Come the Virtual Tourists!
Canadian newspaper The Hamilton Spectator has a nice article about Synthravels – the virtual world vacation/tour company run by our friend Mario Gerosa (Frank Koolhaus in SL) and others. Some of you will know Mario as Editor of Mondi Virtuali (he’s also Editor in Chief of Architectural Digest, Italia). There is also some egg-headed pontification [...]
Full StoryWhite Team Leads Avatar Chess Tourney 1 – 0
Red team seeks rematch in december – 32 players particpate in each game by Pixeleen Mistral, Sports desk avatars who have been taken sit on the sidelines as the battle rages Fashion-forward gargoyle Barney Boomslang is not just another pretty face in SL. While Barney is usually seen rocking this season’s hottest look for gargoyles [...]
Full StoryLudlow Joins Crayonista in Group Hug Snoozecast
In one of the more nauseating examples of SL log-rolling we have seen, Philosopher Peter Ludlow joins Crayonista Joseph Jaffe on episode 64 of his “Across the Sound” podcast. Topics discussed in their highly focussed one hour discourse: IBM, Jay-Z, Pontiac, Jimmy Kimmel, Nissan, crayon, Urizenus Sklar, Second Life Herald, Mark Wallace, The Sims Online, [...]
Full StoryPlease Fix SL
Residents turn to skywriting to contact game gods – will the gods listen? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk “PLEASE FIX SL” is the message floating in air over Yongnam and Walden sims at 299 meters – the highest altitude where objects will appear on the Second Life metaverse world map. When I investigated the [...]
Full StoryGorean Journey: Part 3. about the collar
[editor's note: we kick off what might turn into a Gorean-themed sim week at the Herald with a companion piece to the two installments of the Confessions of a Gorean Slave articles here and here] by sparrowhawk perhaps {Raddick Szymborska} I had no clue about the journey I would be taking when the collar snapped [...]
Full StoryELVIS SIGHTED IN HAWAII !
by Budka Groshomme, Science Fiction desk At least four patrons of Hawaii’s island casino, possibly more, stated that they almost definitely glimpsed what might have been Elvis dancing on Saturday night at the Ice Maiden’s Tringo party. “There was no mistaking it,” said Xenia Baggio as she added another enhancement to her avatar and adjusted [...]
Full StoryHerald Exclusive: It’s Official — Anshe Chung is a Millionaire! [Updated]
Anshe Chung spun $10 into $1,000,000 in two and a half years. According to Second Life resident Anshe Chung , tomorrow she will issue a press release officially announcing that she has accumulated the equivalent of over one million US dollars in assets in Second Life. The bulk of these assets are in Anshe’s virtual [...]
Full StoryCardie Mahoney – Post 6 Grrrl
[Editor’s note: This week our Post 6 Grrrl is infamous Second Life Escort/Supermodel Cardie Mahoney, as photographed by the incomparable Marilyn Murphy - the photographer/visionary behind Players, SL’s in-world erotica magazine.] How can you improve on someone boiling your entire SL plan down to “some bint of a hoochie escort set up her own temple [...]
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