Archive for the year 2007
Korean Gold Farmers Form Trade Association
Korean gold farmers aren’t taking the news of possible governmental regulation lying down. Instead, they’ve formed a trade union to lobby the government, according to veteran MMO designer Raph Koster — who is also the author of the draft Declaration of the Rights of Avatars, a document we at the Herald hold dear. Rise up! [...]
Full StoryDatabase Problems Cause Haiku Outbreak
Linden Blog infected – citizens seek poetic justice by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk A highly infectious strain of Haiku has struck the official Linden Lab blob – affecting residents whose immune systems may have been weakened by chronic exposure to disappointing performance in their game world. As editors scrambled to find a new way [...]
Full StoryGerman Army Beats Unbearable “French Lag”
Land owners’ triumph of will in Porcupine sim by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Ten days ago, after a series of violent yet faintly surreal pro- and anti- Front National (FN) protests, the FN group sold their land and moved from Porcupine sim to Axel leaving a demolished Matrix Mall behind. To the relief of [...]
Full StoryBlue Note Jazz Club Clobbered by Sim Crash
Only online Linden asks not to be bothered by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Blue Note before being eaten by databaseBlue Note blown away The Blue Note Jazz lounge was destroyed by a sim crash during a live DJ event – the building was devastated by an apparent bug in the Second Life server or [...]
Full StoryMr. Linden’s Hong Kong Or Level 75
Mr. Ben Linden rides off into a YouTube sunset to his new franchulate. By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Kremlindenology In keeping with its plan to open source and franchulate the popular online 3-D streaming video gangland game vicinity, whose tangled code had become “nearly organic,” Linden Lab has allowed a resident-turned-Linden and long-time loyal servant [...]
Full StoryBusted! Furry Caught Soliciting Grid-Crashing Grief from Goons
Furry on Furry Warfare Broadens For those who have been on the grid for the last few years, stories of users seeking virtual muscle to grief their neighbors is nothing new. Rare is the case, however, where someone is busted in the act of trying to buy some virtual grief. This is apparently what recently [...]
Full StoryFear and Loathing in Second Life, part 6: My rod and my staff
by Gideon Television Forgive me, children, for I have sinned. It’s been two weeks since my last confession, In that time I have taken hallucinogenics, I’ve had impure thoughts about my neighbor Lanna, I’ve fornicated many times (with both women and animals) and become an apprentice to the current fad of guerilla bukkake. And frankly, [...]
Full StoryLL Answer Shortage Closes Official Answers Forum
Second Life customers should just STFU, OK? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Metaverse game gods might be completely out of answers and – with dim hopes of clues or answers arriving anytime soon – decided to close the Linden Answers forum friday evening. Previously, the Linden Answers forum was a venue for residents to [...]
Full StoryPatrice Cournoyer – Post 6 Grrrl
[Editor’s note: One of my best friends in SL is Marilyn Murphy, the photographer/visionary behind Players, SL’s in-world erotica magazine. At this point, Marilyn really knows how to get my attention - so when she said “Pixie - you HAVE to see Patrice, she will rock your world” I dropped everything and - OMG - [...]
Full StorySecret Grids?
by Agent Molder, Department of Rumors, Conspiracy Theories, and Tinfoil Hats. When the Second Life client software went open source several days ago, we all wondered what marvelous new permutations of the client we might see. Few of us thought to ask, “what secrets will be revealed?” But according to one reliable source who has [...]
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