Archive for February, 2007
[Now With Pictures!] Second Death? Design-Your-Own-Coffin Contest Kicks Off Today
Ghaniain coffins — Can you do as well in Second Life? Dutch funeral company Uitvaart and coffin-makerer Bogra are so excited about Second Life that they’re already thinking about virtual death. And they want your help. The burial-meisters are kicking off a design-your-own-coffin contest today, according to a press release. Pick up your free modifiable [...]
Full StoryHarvard Law Mock Trial: Jury Votes Bragg 6, Linden Lab 3
Since our interview with Bragg Attorney Jason Archinaco we’ve heard plenty of pontificating about the Bragg vs. Linden Lab case from the breathtakingly uninformed, but what would happen if a group of Harvard Law students held a mock trial? What would the jury decide? What would be the nature of their deliberations. Well, now we [...]
Full StoryFashion Show Makes Us Feel Orange
Girl’s Night Out Fashion Show — Exclusive Photos! by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista Exhilarating and exhausting! Fun and surreal!” These are Callie Cline’s words, fresh off of a fashion high after the Ivillage Girl’s Night Out Fashion Show. Despite a few hiccups, the ingenius build spanned the crux of four sims and handled about 150 [...]
Full StoryFear and Loathing in Second Life, Part 7: The Sordid History of the Big Brother Fiasco, Day 1
[Readers of the Herald will recall our earlier reports on the disaster that was Big Brother in Second Life. Perhaps you *didn't* know that our faithful correspondent, Gideon Television was there, as a contestant! Well it is so. Today Gideon begins retelling (in day-by-day "blow"-by-"blow" fashion) the whole sordid tale. Sorry we didn't publish this [...]
Full StoryLock and Load: SL Combat Expo Gets All Fired Up
What sounds like a truly ambitious combat expo is coming to Second Life, March 24 to April 2 in the »Armory Island« sim. The first three days will include workshops and roundtable discussions on combat-related issues within Second Life, according to a press release from Apollo Case, who’s running the show. Weapons vendors will also [...]
Full StoryIs the SL Infringement Honeymoon Over?
There is a very interesting article by John Bringardner in Law.com covering a number of issues surrounding Intellectual Property in Second Life. The topics range from copybot, to Bragg vs. Linden Lab, but the issue that caught my attention was the following: Will the same brand owners that have spent millions trying to crack down [...]
Full StoryGoon Public Service Announcements
Philip Linden and Plastic Duck – as seen by Something Awful goons by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Recently, Decomposing Monstre dropped by with a series of public service announcements to share with Herald readers – but these presented a serious publishing problem — how to create a real multiverse media mashup on the web [...]
Full StoryInterview With the Agoraphobic: Fighting the Fear in Second Life
by Aidan Aquacade Meet Roberto, quite an eye-catching avatar who is one of the more interesting characters that can be found frequenting random areas of the Second Life world that we explore from day to day. Above Roberto’s head is a floating, spinning, square picture of his real-life self. This floating image of himself is [...]
Full StoryPlywood Returns!
The Herald is proud to present the return of Plywood, the Web Comic! After its first smash run ended last year, Moriash Moreau (my neighbor in Louise, wouldn’t you know) has brought back our favorite Second Life comic strip (well, my favorite, anyway), which we’re delighted to feature in a nearly exclusive run in the [...]
Full StoryPractical Marketing 101 From Panty Hog
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Virtual Estate, Simulated Entrepreneurs, Seamy Underbellies, and Commodification of All That You Once Held Dear, NOW WITH CAPTIONS FOR THE ATTENTION-DEFICITED! Prim Prim-Primer and Prime Prim-a Dona Tateru Nino is telling us over at the Blingsider that Practical RL marketing just can’t exist in Second Life. There’s only image enhancement, [...]
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