Archive for April, 2007
SLCC Likely to Create Spot Shortages
Metaverse may affect RL economy by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Economists continue to predict a shortage of lawn care specialists, fast food preparation technicians, and retail stock replenishment experts – sometimes known as stock boys – this summer in late August. The problem is expected to become acute within driving range of Chicago – [...]
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by Fiend Ludwig Veiled Conundrum: Second Life sculpture by Xantherus Halberd, 2007 [Editor's Note: It's no longer clear to me whether we sent Herald correspondent Fiend Ludwig to interview SL gallerist Xantherus Halberd before or after the metaverse meetup last month that was hosted by Xantherus's typist, New York artist Annie Ok, but here at [...]
Full StoryHere Becomes More Like There
Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Worlds, Planets, Multiverses, Simulated Proofs of Concepts, and Badly-Thought-Through Soviet Central Committee Planning by Game Companies Once again, without any real public discussion, Linden Lab took one more step closer to becoming like its evidently envied competitor There today, as it instituted a new “Certification” system to issue what amount to [...]
Full StoryUri Sells Out. Again!
Herald Founder to be Judge for Coca Cola Virtual Thirst Contest Herald founder, cyberlebrity and international playah Urizenus Sklar has been tapped to be one of the judges in the Coca Cola “Virtual Thirst” contest. In this in depth interview, Herald stringer Mike “Boat Guy” Allers asks the hard hitting questions and probes the nature [...]
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By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Affairs The Herald has been deluged lately with indignant complaints about weird goon goings-on in what is supposed to be an educational sim, Woodbury University. As usually with all the Eddie Haskelling and word-salad alibi-Ike sort of stuff involved, it’s hard to get at the truth — and as [...]
Full StorySTABLE Talks In Response to MOSCOW
SL military groups continue negotiationsby Omega Groshomme, war correspondent treaty negotiations continue April 19th at 20:06 SL time an organization of military groups gathered in conference to discuss a new more improved treaty in answer to the Merczateer proposed MOSCOW: Military Organization Standard for Conventional Operations and Warfare. The conference organized by the Alliance Navy [...]
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By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Affairs A resident named Honey Wendt visited the Dell island today to make an environmental protest and got threatened with the virtual boot by Boliver Oddfellow, CEO of Infinite Vision Media. She challenged Dell’s concept of how to help the environment in RL and began saucily debating Oddfellow, whose [...]
Full StoryNew Logo for SL? Or New Business Model?
By Prokofy Neva, KremlindenologistIf you look closely at the new SL Brasil web page that will launch the Brazilian community in Second Life with official Linden support tomorrow, you’ll see an interesting new logo: “Second Life Grid”. It’s a logo separate from the Kaizen Games: SL Global Provider” to the left of it, and appears [...]
Full StorySex in SL: Dude Looks Like a Lady
SL tips for spotting avatar imposters by aurel MilesSo you’ve decided to expand your sexual horizons on Second Life. Good for you. SL is safe, it’s disease-free (physically speaking) and as long as you keep your head (so to speak) you can have a fabulous time exploring all those hidden kinks and quirks that might [...]
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Curvy Girl’s Manifesto by Aurel Miles [I’m delighted that post 6 grrrrl Aurel has agreed to write a column on sex in SL for the Herald. Here is her manifesto - to set the stage before the yiffing cyber exploration begins. -the Editrix] The idea of a beauty pageant on second life could, at first [...]
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