Archive for February, 2007
Second Life Is Like An Acid Trip
Get A Lifeby Heartun Breaker, syndicated advice columnist. HEY HEARTUN ~ So, I have number of “friends” in SL who I find vaguely threatening. In real life I don’t enjoy hanging around people who either ignore me or leave the room without looking at me or (who fail to respond) to me when I say [...]
Full StoryAnother Bad Hair Day: Virtually Blind Enters Fray
Same or different? Virtually Blind calls attention to the radical differences in the hair designs. (Image on right from Virtually Blind) Herald readers will recall a recent article by Seola Sassoon on the alleged design copying by Rach Snookums. Now Benjamin Duranske (Benjamin Noble in SL) an IP lawyer currently working on a novel has [...]
Full StoryWanted: World-Bearer
Photo by Colin Gregory Palmer of “Atlas” by Lee Lawrie and Rene Chambellan, in the Art Deco style (1936) at Rockefeller Center. Creative Commons Attribution By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Worlds, Planets, Universes, Metaverses, and Server Farms So Large That Even the Men of Science Are Amazed The news that Philip Rosedale has personally posted [...]
Full StorySHAME! Two Herald Reporters Jailed!
Disgraced Mistral and Breaker serve time in SLAB Prison by Denise Levertov, New Media Observer In a development sure to roil the metaverse journalistic scene, Herald Editrix Pixeleen Mistral and advice columnist Heartun Breaker were caught serving time in the SLAB Prison in Albata sim Thursday evening. Both journalists we captured on prison surveillance video [...]
Full StoryThe Last Word In *ingo
Special to the Herald, by Onder Skall of Second Life Games Never underestimate casual games. The video gaming industry is buzzing about them lately, billing them as a fast-growing frontier where indie shops are king. While many oldbie SL residents may look down their noses at Tringo, Slingo and the like, the fact remains that [...]
Full StoryYAAR! The Pirates of Sanchon, Parte the Fourthe
by Tiny Newt HMS Endeavour [Editor's Note: Though the Herald navy had lost sight of Captain Tiny Newt's crew on the Endeavour in recent weeks, we rejoin them now as they commence their original mission: the exploration of virtual parts unknown...--Walker Spaight] Parte the Fourthe: In Which We Are Nearly Able To Begin The crew [...]
Full StoryIntersexed Avatar Children Hard to Find
Daddy/little girl, mom/daughter are most popular ageplay groups by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk For those who’s Second Life might not be complete without acting out fantasies with hermaphrodite child avatars – the odds do not look good. But an exclusive Herald study suggests that daddy/little girl ageplay is popular among 44% of those who [...]
Full StoryVirtual Journalism is the Shiz!
Yes, it is true, the intrerpid cyber-journalists of the SL infosphere have been the toast of the metaverse. Editor and Publisher has an article featuring our buddies Hamlet Au (New World Notes) and Dan Terdiman (News.com) and Herald Editrix Pixeleen Mistral, who *refuses* to release her ubersecret real life identity even to the prestigimongous E&P! [...]
Full StorySL Double Dare – Games From The Shadows
by Onder Skall I’m fairly compulsive when it comes to my web surfing, so how I ended up at the SL Double Dare blog is a bit of a mystery even to me. I found myself looking at featureless black with sparse grey text describing a new game of dares in Second Life. Members would [...]
Full StoryA Special Valentine’s Day Plywood
[Looks like I missed an episode somewhere. No matter, I'll catch you up later, but for now I wanted to be sure to post this special Valentine's Day edition of Plywood. Let it serve as a cautionary tale about just how much we have to lose from grid problems and bad neighbors. Happy Valentine's Day!--Walker [...]
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