The Alphaville Herald

Plywood #68: The Plytrix!

Herald Correspondent Attacked by Bill Cosby, Investigation Launched

by Jimbo Quality [Editor's Note: Jimbo's investigation into the perpetrators of the attack described below is continuing. As is the Herald's into how this guy get to write for our paper in the first place.--Walker Spaight] If you’re like me, you often find yourself camping a camping chair at a place like the LV Casino [...]

Furries Invade RL Fashion Show

Furries on the runway – is nothing sacred? By Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk SL – RL furry crossover crossdressing fashion? The Herald mojo wire made some strange sounds this morning and coughed up a furball of an RL fashion alert. It appears that some designers have been spending far too much time in Furnation, [...]

The Lindens Do Good

Jeska readies the pitchforks for the mobs at Office Hours in Linden Village at Ambleside. By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Kremlindenology OMG a man-bites-dog story for sure. Well, we Herald reporters can’t always go around with our half-curled lips, with that sunken, two-burnt-out-holes-in-a-blanket look in our eyes from a 3-day drunk, and our felt hats [...]

Fear and Loathing in Second Life Part 8: the sordid history of the Big Brother fiasco part 2

Ah, yes it was so long ago — centuries by the high speed adrenaline rush passage of time that is Web 3.D, but we keep up as best we can, and you *do* want the skinny on what *really* happened in the Big Brother in SL hypervent don’t you? What if I told you it [...]

Allison Ersetu – Post 6 Grrrl

[Editrix’s note: Allison Ersetu is our erotic and erudite favorite this week. Allison is Marilyn Murphy's latest discovery - and Marilyn is - as always - the photographer/visionary behind Players, SL’s in-world erotica magazine. After our readers learn more about Allison I am sure they will want to seek Solace - I know that I'm [...]

Walled Garden

Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Worlds, Planets, Universes, Metaverses, and A Secret Virtual Garden That Fits in the Palm of Your Hand I first heard the term “walled garden” to describe Second Life about two years ago from Tony Walsh at Clickable Culture. Of course it brought up strong memories of The Secret Garden which we [...]

Lindens Move to Throttle SL

Lindens realize serving paying customers makes sense? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Robin Linden today announced that it could be possible that just maybe on a very busy day in the metaverse it might perhaps occasionally make some sense to sometimes limit who can log in – especially if nothing is working right anyway. [...]

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 [...]

Another 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 [...]