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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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Woodbury University Island Destroyed

LL’s extreme smackdown – Woodbury University’s island deleted for TOS violations!“a fascist company-controlled cookie-cutter world” – Tizzers Foxchase by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk not even a smoking crater was left… Sometime Saturday, Woodbury University’s Second Life island dropped off the map of the virtual world. Second Life players have grown accustomed to intermittent outages [...]

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The Dawn Of The New Media

“We Are The Strange” is going to become a part of the Creative Commons. Remix at will. by Onder Skall, New Media Journalist [this review arrived at the Herald offices a few minutes ago - written on a used notecard shipped inside a plywood cube. Audrey in typesetting has been reminding everyone that union rules [...]

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Superman Talks Down the Goons

By peppermint fizz, Virtual Convention desk Mutually assured ban lists improve metaverse – Superman One of the best parts of working for the Herald, above and beyond the office staff meetings and the fact I feel tall next to Pix, smart next to Jimbo, and quiet next to Prok, is the fact that part of [...]

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Perphides Capalini – Post 6 Grrrrl

[Perphides Capalini makes her Post 6 debut tonight - and what a great way to end the week! As always, Marilyn Murphy, photographer, philosopher, and publisher of Players, Second Life's in-world erotica magazine has found a way to lighten the mood. Enjoy the weekend! - the Editrix] My first exposure to SecondLife was through a [...]

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Metaverse Shocker – “Worldwide Virtual Anti-Fur Protest”

More anti-furry discrimination on the way? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Worldwide protest against Second Life furs? Last week’s /b/ furry death camp could have been only the start of widespread discrimination against one class of metaverse citizens – anthropomorphic cats, dogs, foxes, squirrels, and others known in-world as furs. In a press release [...]

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Alliance Navy Base Becomes Furry Death Camp

Half ur base r belong 2 usMercz and /b/ form alliance to take over Alliance Navy’s Emit Time base/b/’s short lived Fursecution concentration camp by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk & Ace Graveling, War Correspondent Arbeit Macht Fur June 20 was a bad day for the Alliance Navy of Second Life. Behind on land tier [...]

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