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Dog Days of August for SLCC?
According to a post over at 3pointD.com, this year’s Second Life Community Convention is rumored to be scheduled for the dog days of mid-August, out in sunny San Francisco. Not much more information has surfaced yet, other than the fact that it looks like SL’s premier meatspace meet-up will take up three days this year [...]
Full StoryMonster Boats Sail Forth
by Budka Groshomme As a show of strength of the water community in SL, the Second Life Sailing Federation has created docks in Sanchon and invited all sailors to show their creativity and approaches to building working sailing craft. The monster boat show ends Tuesday, so if you want to see and experience sailing in [...]
Full StorySecondCast Episode 12: Fashionistas
Episode 12 of the Grid’s favorite radio show, SecondCast, is now cooked and ready for listening. This week, we flap our gums with Second Life’s fashionista crew, including Nephilaine Protagonist of Pixel Dolls, Lo Jacobs of Luxe Designs, and Celebrity Trollop of the cool new SecondStyle magazine and blog. Listen at the SecondCast site or [...]
Full StorySteamPunks Seek Sim Funds
A new steampunk group is now taking donations for the creation of a steampunk sim in Second Life. Interestingly, they’ve built a model of their proposed cityscape in the Celadon sim, creating what’s in effect a little virtual virtual world. Use the SLurlPane at Herald affiliate site 3pointd.com to go direct to Celadon, and check [...]
Full StoryHas Plastic Duck Migrated Back to SL?
Camp Darfur trashed — by Plastic Duck? Sources tell the Herald that the notorious griefer and W-Hat associate Plastic Duck (the Herald’s third-place Avatar of the Year for 2005) is back. This time, if it’s him, he’s trashed the re-creation of a Sudanese refugee camp [< -- SL link] that’s been built as a consciousness-raising [...]
Full StoryMarsellus Wallace on the Air
G’Day World, an Australian podcast hosted by Cameron Reilly of the Podcast Network, has a hilarious and revealing interview up with Second Life mafia boss (and occasional Herald correspondent) Marsellus Wallace, in which Mars goes into a surprising amount of detail about just how his SL mafia works (and how it used to work when [...]
Full StoryLL Changes Town Hall Format
Well, it seems King Philip wasn’t so excited about talking to the SecondCast crew after all. It now seems residents will get to speak directly to LL’s CEO himself, calling in to Johnny Ming, who will then screen the calls and patch them through just as a radio host would. Johnny will hopefully have someone [...]
Full StoryTown Hall Meetings Take to the Airwaves
SL’s Town Hall meetings are getting an overhaul. When King Philip himself logs in tomorrow to field resident questions at 7:00pm SLT, it won’t be in the usual lag-fraught, unreadable chat format, but in an audio feed streamed all over the Grid. SL resident Johnny Ming’s SecondCast was recently contracted to produce the audio Town [...]
Full StorySL Classifieds Hit the Web — Kinda
As announced yesterday in this forum posting, the Classifieds section of the SL in-world interface is now available on the Web. There’s not a lot of functionality to it at this point — no search, no ability to purchase items. All it allows you to do is browse a sequential list of the various categories, [...]
Full StoryRealGamers Feel Long Arm of the Ohio Law
Following hot on the heels of the RealFrogger technology revealed at the Herald suite at South by Southwest, a group of teenage girls are being investigated in Ravenna, Ohio, after recreating a real-life version of Super Mario Bros. by placing 17 gold boxes with question marks spray-painted on them in various locations around the town. [...]
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