Archive for April, 2007
Simulating A Gambling Crackdown
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Thursday Robin Linden stimulated metaverse simulated casino owners to come up with an acceptable euphemism for simulated gambling today with the announcement that the Lab will no longer “accept any classified ads, place listings, or event listings that appear to relate to simulated casino activity”. A few Second Life [...]
Full StoryScandal! Prim Babies Abandoned by Blingtard Moms
Mrs. President Chomsky Calls for Better Mommy Bureau Longtime Herald readers will recall Mrs. President Chomsky from her crusades against pet culling back in The Sims Online. She continues to be an active force online, having founded a new civic organization: Concerned Understanding Mothers Striving To Achieve Improved Net Neighborhoods. Its mission? Bring some shred [...]
Full StoryLindens Name New Sim after African Goddess of Lag
“she slows down the day and night, and everything around here happens in a time outside of time” Special to the Herald by Economic Mip As I was cruising the new continent, I had the misfortune of running across a sim named “Mbokomu” which certainly brought back memories. According to several African tribes, Mbokomu was [...]
Full StoryFBI Investigates Metaverse Casinos
G-men to consider punishing players? by Onder Skall Reuters reports that the FBI have been snooping around Second Life’s casinos and debating what laws are being broken here. After all, playing unregulated Poker for money is illegal – which of course means that those of you who’ve been playing Poker all this time have been [...]
Full StoryHave Cock, Will Travel!
Dangerous dating in Second Life by Mariner Trilling, man of many parts When I first came to Second Life, the idea of a virtual relationship never even occurred to me. SL was a strange landscape of bizarre places to explore where I could be anything or anyone I wanted. But then after a week something [...]
Full StoryPost Sixx Pageant
calling all hott woodnymphs, drow, goreans, guys, girls, furries, and robots By popular demand, Marilyn Murphy is bringing Post Sixx competition to the masses. Marilyn has teamed up with the SL Herald and Shadow Sinners at Fox Cavern to create a weekly Post Sixx Pageant. Last week’s Post 6 Grrrl – Tavasha Martynov was the [...]
Full StoryAspire! and L’Oreal – Face of L’Oreal Paris Glamour 2007 Pageant
Fabulous photos of 14 contestants! by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista Following in the footsteps of much controversy, the Face of L’Oreal Paris Glamour 2007 pageant went off saturday with much less than a hitch – although it started half an hour late at 12:30pm SLT and ended a full *two hours* late at 4pm SLT. [...]
Full StoryDesperately Seeking Family: Ageplay Adoption Agencies in Second Life
by Muffin K. Smith Jaelle Akula of New World Adoption Ageplay in Second Life has received a lot of media attention ever since early March, when Linden Labs distributed notecards to places that cater to people who seek sex with child avatars. The wording of this notecard, as reported in the Herald, includes the line [...]
Full StoryAlien Invasion Imminent!
by Onder Skall Rumors about alien invasions have been rolling around for decades, but recently I was able to make actual contact with beings from another world and confirm the truth: we’re all doomed! The denizens of Discordia’s sky platforms have always been considered eccentric, but harmless, hard-working folk. While many have been considered “mad [...]
Full Storyupdated: We didn’t Want You to Know This, But Agitators Will Be Banned
Op/Ed by Urizenus Sklar Most people in the Second Life infosphere have heard that SL agitator and SL Herald contributor Prokofy Neva has been banned from the Second Life Community Convention in Chicago. The exchanges between Prok and the FIC have been pretty off the hook (on both sides), so we can understand why some [...]
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