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Fashion in Fuschia – Paper Couture Fall 07 Show
Tenshi smiles at the best fashion show yet in SL by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista The Paper Couture Sisters: House of Lu Welcome to the Paper Couture Fall 07 show, one of the most fun events to happen in Second Life in a while. Held on Friday in the Fuschia sim with enabled voice chat, [...]
Full StoryHeartun Breaker Leaving SL Herald
HELP WANTED: metaverse reporter / love&sex&advice columnist by Pixeleen Mistral, managing editrix My new iMojo phone was buzzing insistently where I left it on the granite blocks near the waterfront in Sanchon sim. That whole iPhone thing is so last week’s news now – these days you want to be rocking an iMojo. The iMojo [...]
Full StoryThe Bare Facts: Nudism in Second Life
by Lisae Boucher [After the Herald's recent story on closer scrutiny by Linden Lab of images that might be considered "broadly offensive," we were contracted by Lisae Boucher (mentioned in the article), who asked to weigh in on a related issue: the practice of non-sexual nudism in Second Life. Here, she looks at how the [...]
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Full StoryLA Times Joins the SL Hater Parade
The Hate Just Keeps on Comin’! It seems like just last month (well, ok, it was last month) that Forbes did its 180 and started hating on Second Life. Now the LA Times joins the hate parade with a story of its own. Herald Summary ™: Businesses came in, saw, and decided it was a [...]
Full StoryHere Comes Second Earth! Or not.
WTF? 120 Servers (480 new sims) per Week? MIT’s Technology Review has a (registration required) disappointingly fanboyish, hyperventilating story about Second Life and the possibility of linking up worlds like Second Life with Google Earth. Oddly, while the article talks about how swell and kewl this would be (and includes interviews with developers who live [...]
Full StoryItaly’s “Clean Hands” Prosecutor to Visit Second Life
I almost never report on hypervents, but this one is special. Imagine this: There I was snorkeling off the coast of southern Italy, near Maratea . I came back to the beach and sent the cabana boy for a Campari Soda and a copy of the Corriere dela Sera when the mojo wire on my [...]
Full StoryPhilosophy 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. [...]
Full StoryCasino Allegedly Pays Jack Squat on $16000 US Jackpot
by Flimflam Edelman, Bureau of Casinos, Scams, and Dodgy Dealings Second Life resident Rhonda Bosen is charging that a casino owned by Hunter Noland failed to pay out on her big win of over 400,000 Linden Dollars — roughly $16,000 $1600 US Dollars. Ms. Bosen has produced chat logs and screen shots in support of [...]
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