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Interview with Ogoglio’s Trevor Smith
A mid-November look at some Ogoglio features. Through the years, the Herald has discussed various open source alternatives to Second Life, including Open Croquet and MUPPETS, but we haven’t yet looked at Ogoglio. In this interview, we talk to Ogoglio creator Trevor Smith, who explains how Ogoglio is a fundamentally different project from those that [...]
Full StoryYAAR! The Pirates of Sanchon, Parte the Second
by Tiny Newt The view from the crow’s nest [Editor's Note: Three cheers for the currents of the Adriatic, which found another champagne bottle clunking against our hull this morning as I walked the decks of the Herald yacht, attempting to keep down last night's caviar. Unfortunately, though, no hair of the dog was to [...]
Full StoryIs Second Life Being Used for Money Laundering? Could it be?
Raph Koster has pointed to a sobering post by Kenneth Rijock, on the World-Check site. World-Check is a site that tracks risks world-wide, and Rijock is an attorney who has a rather interesting resume, to say the least: He has more than 25 year’s experience in the field of money laundering, as a practising laundryman, [...]
Full StoryYAAR! The Pirates of Sanchon, Parte the First
[Editor's Note: The Herald yacht is regularly buffeted by various forms of flotsam and jetsam, most of which we sell to the virtual tin man that plies the waters in which we roam. Recently, however, a champagne bottle clanked against our hull. Believing it to contain the sweet elixir that powers the Herald presses, I [...]
Full StoryFear and Loathing in Second Life Part 3: The Best Little Whorehouses in Second Life
“I think it’s time you gave us something more hardcore”. It was Uri, the founder of The Second Life Herald. “A longer form piece, something that’ll really show us what Second Life is all about, through the eyes of Second Life’s First ™ gonzo journalist. Tell me, what do you spend most of your time [...]
Full StoryAvaStar Moves to Silence Critics: Issues Bans, Files Frivolous Abuse Reports, and Seeks Real Life Information on One Critic.
It’s times like this we wish we weren’t so “fairly unbalanced” all the time, because it is very important to us that you take this particular story seriously. We aren’t kidding, and we aren’t poking fun this time. The Herald has seen many hamfisted efforts to silence critics through the years, but this one is [...]
Full StoryShock! Herald Paparazzi Catch Cardie Mahoney at Crayonista Christmas Party
Black Christmas Special from Pat the Rat. In a truly shocking development that so clearly illustrates the lack of moral compass in the English speaking world it is going to make me vote Republican for the first time ever, a Herald Paparazzo infiltrated the Crayonista “Christmas Party” — and I put this in scare quotes [...]
Full StorySaluting an Officer
The Herald sends its condolences on the death of Second Life resident Jordan Witherspoon, who passed away recently at the age of only 28. Jordan was a member of the Alliance Navy, a role-playing group that was committed to policing portions of SL on its own (though opinions as to its beneficence differed, depending on [...]
Full StoryFear and Loathing in Second Life, part 1: I’m Gideon, Fly Me
I met Gideon Television at a tattoo parlor in Wuhan China — one of those specialized niche tattoo places that will tattoo your heart with radioactive dye. You know, so that ‘mom’ or ‘Molly’ or, as the case may be, ‘Amanda’ shows up on your next post-gunshot-wound chest x-ray. We struck up a convo, and [...]
Full StoryAs Lindens Stand Down, SL SWAT Stands Up to Griefers.
What happens when the Lindens make good on their threat to stop responding to abuse reports — when all they offer us is their Rumsfeldian advice that we simply have to “pull up our socks” and stand up to one million unverified idiots that *they* let into the world while huffing their Northern California grown [...]
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