Archive for the year 2006

Love 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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A Valentine’s Day Chat with Hamlet Linden

by Walker Spaight

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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 [...]

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New 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 [...]

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Post 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 [...]

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Kremlindens 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 [...]

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SecondLife 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 [...]

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Herald 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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Canadian ‘Casters Corner Cory O.

Canadian podcast site Thunderbird Six has sat down Linden Lab veep of development Cory Ondrejka (that’s Cory Linden to you) for a long interview now posted to their site (see episode #23 for immediate listening). Among other things, Cory notes that more than 130,000 people have signed up to SL at one time or another, [...]

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SLBoutique: Going once, Going Twice, SOLD!

FlipperPA Peregrine announced today on the forums that he had sold his popular SecondLife mall-in-a-browser, SLBoutique.com, to the Electric Sheep Company.  SLBouqitue was recently featured here in the Herald for being the first SecondLife shopping website to offer real life commodities such as computer hardware and software for Linden dollars.  Flipper was quick to say [...]

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