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Party On, Grid
In case you’ve nothing better to do today, just a quick reminder: The Herald turns two this weekend, and we’re having a party! Click that link for details. The festivities begin at noon SST (that’s Server Standard Time), and continue till whenever we all get bored and go home, so even if you can’t make [...]
Full StoryInfonet Infiltrated! (Well, Not Really)
Squagmire Stravinsky’s Infonet (or is it the g.Net now?) only gets more and more awesome. In fact, so formidable an operation is it that the Grid’s own “innernet” has now drawn the attention of cyberpunks and VW hackers. The Herald has learned that the Infonet complex was recently the target of an infiltration exploit that [...]
Full StoryMea Culpa: Don’t Blame the NY Times for Judygate. Blame Uri.
by Urizenus Sklar If you read the blogs about journalism (as of course I do), you know that there is a shitstorm brewing over the way the New York Times handled Judy Miller. Critics say that they basically ceded their editorial policy to her, and that she was in effect not a 1st Amendment martyr, [...]
Full StorySteee-RIKE!! Bowling Kingpins Knocked Over for Big Bucks. None are spared!
Anonymous sources are reporting that there has been a rash of exploits on the TP Bowling lanes in Second Life – perhaps all of them – and tens of thousands of linden dollars were scored by the turkey perpetrating this scam before he split from SL. According to Herald sources, the exploit involves using a [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl Aeryckah Seifert
The Herald is very happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Aeryckah Seifert! Aeryckah loves decorating her home and playing slingo, and some day hopes to eventually be a model here in SecondLife. Our thanks to Heart Wishbringer and Joe Stravinsky for photographing and submitting this Post Six Grrrl.
Full StoryParty On! The SLH is Turning Two!
Help celebrate at the second birthday party of that most august newspaper of cyberspace, the Second Life Herald! (And Jeff Brown thought we wouldn’t see our second month, tsk tsk.) Hosted by the illustrious _blacklibrary, located in Second Life‘s Furness sim, the Herald birthday party will commence on Saturday, October 22, at noon game-time (that’s [...]
Full StoryThe Wages of Play, Part II: Social Devolution
Second Life residents attempt to crash the Off the Wagon sim Well, Pat the Rat’s film finally came back from the lab, and except for a few tequila-stained shots, the Herald is happy to present an even more in-depth look at the weekend’s events. From dance contests to game development, conspiracies to goldfish, a good [...]
Full StoryThe Wages of Play, Part I
Philip Linden expresses shock at finding SL residents almost as s3xxy as he is The virtual world descended on New York City this weekend at the first ever Second Life Community Convention and the third annual State of Play conference — and the key word here is “descended.” Throughout the weekend, primal screams, neanderthal utterances [...]
Full StoryHerald Pot Boiler Boils Over, Gossip Columnists Salivate
In the futurtainment blog Hollywood 2020, Joyce Schwarz – a kind of grade B “Pat the Rat” — is blogging the impending arrival of Only a Game, by Ludlow and Wallace, and who can blame her? It promises to crack open the deepest darkest secrets of the metaverse, and expose it for the pixilated Babylon [...]
Full StoryCompany Boy vs. Slut Boy: Let’s Go to the Video!
A thousand pardons for not having our incriminating photos up yet, but you know… They are on the way. The State of Play III has come and gone, but if you missed it, videos of the session are up here. Naturally, we like the first video/session best, because not only is it on virtual journalism [...]
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