Archive for the year 2007

Woodbury: University or Conspiracy?

by Janelle Kyomoon, former Woodbury University visitor the lost SL campus of Woodbury University Woodbury University, a liberal arts college located in Burbank, California, has been the heated subject of controversy since the conception of its virtual campus in March of 2007. The finger has been pointed at Woodbury for being a conspiracy and cover-up [...]

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Outraged SL Herald Readers Stage Protest

Signs, puppets, prims, & particles -shouting, shooting, & some furry intolerance by Jessica Holyoke, Marxist Whore correspondent Student and /b/tard protest? Wishing to see things with my own eyes, I decided to go to the “Fire Prokofy for Libel” protest outside of the SL Herald offices in Hyperborea sim. (Disclosure, Prokofy and I don’t always [...]

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Philosophy of Second Life, Part 1: On the Origins of FIC Ideology

(FIC propaganda poster stolen from Flipper’s FIC propaganda repository.)Being Uri, there are moments when I look in the mirror and skeet. You would too! Imagine being a supreme visionary AND an alpha male (although ‘uberstud’ is the politically correct terminology I prefer). But then there are those days when I read my favorite philosopher, P. [...]

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Bashiri Mandelbrot – Post 6 Robot

[Bashiri Mandelbrot makes history tonight as the first-ever super-sexy robot to be featured as part of the always amazingly hawt Post 6 series - this ought to get the machine oils and lubricants flowing! Can you smell the extended life 10W-40 synthetic motor oil and graphite powder as teh robots are makin' baby robots? As [...]

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Three Fashionistas in a Boat

MO Islanders Swashbuckle the Fashion Industry by Pink Oh, junior fashionista intern Late yesterday – late, because 5pm SLT is quite, quite late in Europe – I had the special opportunity of attending the MO Island Fashion Show. Put on by MO Islanders Tenshi Vielle (senior SL Herald fashionista) and Marni Grut, they had quite [...]

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Stroker’s Bed Heads to Court

Stroker Serpentine: see you in court, Catteneo by Onder Skall, Prokofy Neva, and Curious Rousselot – court reporters Reuters reported today that entrepreneur and part time model Stroker Serpentine (RL name Kevin Alderman) has filed a lawsuit against another Second Life resident for selling copies of the Eros SexGen bed for as little as L$4,000 [...]

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Interview With Woodbury University’s Edward Clift

“Universities should be made aware that Linden Labs maintains global surveillance on all the activities of their student members and monitors them both on campus and off-site” – Edward Clift by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Over the last two days, I conducted an interview with Dr. Edward Clift via e-mail, seeking his opinion on [...]

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The Avatar’s Got “Talent” – or something

by Mariner Trilling, new media reporter While surfing the grid one night, I found a crowd of green dots at the NBC studio sim and decided to check out what was going on. Outside the studio there were signs announcing the “Avatar’s got Talent” contest tryouts. The event was modeled after the NBC primetime show, [...]

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The Second Life Teen Grid – An Insider’s Report

by Calade Lamington, Teen Grid resident Hello SL Herald readers! My name is Calade Lamington and I will be writing to you about the teen grid of Second Life. I contacted Pixeleen via e-mail a while ago about writing stories of Teen SL for the Herald and – here I am. So, I come from [...]

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Attack–I Mean Educational Seminar on Ravenglass

By Random Unsung, Dept. of Barn Doors of Perception Left Open After Horses of Delusion Are Stolen

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