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The Surrealistic Playground of Brainiac HQ
by Leon Mechanique Where the brains are There’s just something about visiting Deevyde Maelstrom’s Brainiac HQ that really gets the mind working in odd rhythm’s. When the Herald asked me to check out the new games Deevyde released in July, I thought to myself, “That sounds like fun” (and “I could make a few quick [...]
Full StoryPutting the Wind in SL’s Sails
by Eloise Pasteur Racing the winds of Second Life Last week, the Second Life Sailing Federation (SLSF) held its first large race, not around an island within a sim, but around islands over a route through several sims. “So what?” you may be thinking. “Boats have been around in SL since the very early days, [...]
Full StorySuspended Reporter Returns to Teen Grid
Second Age reporter, 782 We recently reported that Teen Grid denizen (and Second Age reporter) 782 had been suspended for contact with an adult within the SL Teen Grid. According to sources familiar with the case, the suspension occurred when 782 had contact with a Teen Grid avatar named Ray Geer, which the Lindens later [...]
Full StoryPhoto Essay: A Day at the Races
I suddenly had an urge to see auto racing in SL, and checked my events list on the off chance there might be such, and what do ya know, there was! I dropped in on the Tahiti International Raceway which is floating up above Tahiti Isle. As you might expect, sitting above a Mall is [...]
Full StoryWTF? Teen on Teen Grid Suspended (Banned?) for Associating with Adult??
The Second Age blog — our window onto the Teen Grid – has had one of its reporters — named “782″ –banned from the game and the forum for associating with an adult. Which of course leads us to ask: why the fuck was an adult in there? Here is the note that the reporter [...]
Full StoryLindens Poach 2
David Parks Lindens have hired There cofounder Jeffrey Ventrella, and Dave Parks from RIT”s MUPPETS project — an academic/educational/open source version of SL. Zero Grace and the commentors on Cory’s blog are all sprung over the hiring of Ventrella, but I always figure you get more mileage from a mutant undergrad computer graphics d000d, and [...]
Full StoryCoryD Comes to Town, Leaves Town
by Prokofy Neva Cory Doctorow‘s book signing took place amid the usual sim-crashing, alphabet-soupy, av-pushing and kewl-kid posturing we’ve come to associate with SL events — the events listing led to the wrong sim–tps led to gnashing one’s teeth outside the right sim…and you really had to *know somebody* — a Linden preferably — to [...]
Full StoryBig Babies and Strange Sims
OK, Jack Thompson is turning up his offensive on EA for Sims 2 mods. Earlier we reported his statement in Gamespot that Sims 2 is “worse than hot coffee” and subsequent to that we posted his letter to the attorney at EA (copied to Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman etc). In his latest missive he has [...]
Full StorySkin Review: Kathmandu Gilman
by Chipsen Queso Continuing with the Herald’s series of skin reviews, I recently purchased Kathmandu Gillman’s white tiger skin, along with female accessories, in order to review it. I am not a furry, and have never desired to be a furry, but Kathmandu is well-known for his realistic furry skins, one of the ones I [...]
Full StoryEA Gets Jacked! Naughty Mod Scandal Goes Nucular [sic]
Ohhh baby, you *know* how much the Herald hates to say we told you so… well ok, we rather like it…but this one is particularly delicious. The Herald has come into possession of the following letter written by anti-video game activist and attorney Jack Thompson to the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary (and VP, but [...]
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