Archive for November, 2006
Crayonista Chapman Pans Jay-Z/Kimmel Hypervent [Updated]
Man-o-man, Crayonista C.C. Chapman ‘s been chuggin’ the Haterade! A few more blog posts like this and we may have to hire him to write for the Herald. After a sim crash and delays upon delays Jay-Z finally performed. His avatar danced around the stage while we heard the live stream from the performance. Just [...]
Full StoryTaking Wagers: When Will Linden Lab Sell
by Flimflam Edelman at the Puppies, Ponies, and Other Action Desk There is always chitchat in world about the possibility of Linden Lab selling out soon, but now the chitchat is coming from “RL” blogs. Last week PR Marketing guru B.L. Ochman predicted that Second Life would go within three weeks. Two weeks left for [...]
Full StoryDid Official Live Helper Threaten Goons Over Furry Ageplay Report?
Goons Allegedly Threatened with DMCA Action for “Mockery” Don’t fuck with THIS Offical Live Helper. Image via Petey at Something Awful. A recent post on the Something Awful site has exposed the seldom talked about fault lines in the Second Life Community and raised a number of difficult issues. When an earlier post on Something [...]
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by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Prokofy Neva reports on the Second Thoughts blog that he has obtained a leaked e-mail with the results of an independent developer survey conducted by Linden Lab and distributed to a select developers list today. The numbers reported suggest that significant sums are being invested in third party development [...]
Full StoryDuran Duran – Where Art Thou?
concerned Duran Duran fans wonder if the show will go on by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Three and a half months ago – on August 9th – CNet reported the 80s pop group Duran Duran had discovered Second Life and was planning an “exclusive private island” and events – including a concert – in [...]
Full StoryTSO Shocker – Urizenus Sklar Part of Sim Shadow Government
by Pixeleen Mistral, Internal Affairs Unit Anya Ixchel’s interview of Herald founder Urizenus Sklar in SLatenight ends with a shocking revelation – Uri confesses that while in The Sims Online he was a secret part of the Sims Shadow Government – a vigilante group that appointed itself to police the TSO world – and a [...]
Full StoryGoons Boldly Go…
Yes yes I know this is badly dated. We are talking *early* November already. But I didn’t come here to bring you the n3wz, I came here to bring you the *tr00th*. And today the truth takes the form of Something Awful goons, suiting up ala Kirk, Spock, and…who is that bald guy anyway? (hmm [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: RL Press Needs to Respect SL Identities
Is it really news when SL residents do not provide RL names? Eloise Pasteur, European Affairs deskRecent weeks have seen an explosion of Second Life into the awareness of everyone in Real Life that follows the news. In the UK alone coverage snuck out from Newsnight, a reputable but not widely watched show in December [...]
Full StoryGet a Life – AgePlay Fun And Games Turn Ugly
by Heartun Breaker, syndicated advice columnist. Heartun Breaker could help you! HEY HEARTUN: I have been playing around in Second Life since 2004 and in that time I’ve had two significant romances. About a year and a half ago, when I was last single, I started exploring AgePlay. I liked the freedom, the role playing [...]
Full StoryPhilcon: Welcome to the Matrix, But You’re Not Sleeping
By Dae Tilling Camaraderie, in a room full of people each shielded behind their own laptop? That was the first oddity that struck me at the Virtual Worlds track of Philadelphia’s annual science fiction convention. For an entire day, panels about virtual worlds were broadcast into Second Life from Philcon. In the seventy years that [...]
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