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Post Six Grrrl – JellyBean Madison

The Herald is pleased to present this week’s Post Six Grrrl – JellyBean Madison. JellyBean is co-owner of Minx Radio and ThE WhErE HoUsE. A big thank you goes out to Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players Magazine (available at Semang (208, 170)), who is responsible for these pictures and all of the Herald’s Post [...]

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Launching the SLInformation Revolution

by Walker Spaight Squagmire Stravinsky at the controls of the InfoNet R4 The information revolution comes to SL this evening when The Learning Center’s own Squagmire Stravinsky unveils her newest creation, the InfoNet R4 information network, in its new and more powerful laptop edition. Squag’s launch party starts at 9pm game-time (see Find for details). [...]

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May is Touchstone Educational Fair Month

Want to learn more about Second Life? SL’s Touchstone group is holding an educational fair on FairChang Project Island all month, showcasing various cultural and educational groups and activities from across the Grid.

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Love Affairs, Death Threats and Scandals, Oh My!

by Pat the RatHerald columnist Pat the Rat (right) with one of his many “sources” Recent comments on the Herald site have inspired the editors to send out little old me, intrepid columnist Pat the Rat, to find out what’s really going on! Keep in mind most mafia folks are tight-lipped about their business (well, [...]

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The Geeks Are Coming!

by Budka GroshommeA fanatical group of science fiction fans in northwest Indigo sim has built some kick-ass space ships that are now poised ready to sally forth to destroy the Alliance, the Borg, or the Klingons! Or perhaps they’re just getting ready to attack the puzzling array of oversized teddy bears ranged along a bluff [...]

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Hammie Blows Lid off FIC ZombiFICation Center

Free thinking SLers are converted into slaves of the Feted Inner Core (image stolen from NWN) In what is doubtless his finest work to date as a virtual journalist, Hamlet Linden of New World Notes (the House Organ of Linden Lab) broke his leash and gave the hand that feeds him a good chomping by [...]

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Forget the Turing Test, How about the Paula Abdul Test?

In an extremely interesting post on Terra Nova, Nathan Combs talks about scripting dance animations on second life. I’m never really sure what Nathan is saying, but his post contains speculation that the animations have an odd kind of community-forming function. He then speculates on the possibility more unpredictable dancers and wonders if one might [...]

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The W-Hat Birthday: Cake, Ice Cream and Murdered-Hooker Bloodbath (2/2)

By Neal Stewart It’s the quick and the dead in Second Life. The murdered hooker I found at Baku today is not the murdered hooker she was yesterday. Yesterday’s corpse had character. A furry, she lay there with eyes closed and brows wrenched, as though her eternal sleep was wrought by nightmares. And who could [...]

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The W-Hat Birthday: Cake, Ice Cream and Murdered-Hooker Bloodbath (1/2)

By Neal Stewart 24 hours ago, the W-Hats celebrated their 1-Year Birthday in Second Life at their “W-Hat Super Happy Fun Time Land”. “Cake and ice cream for every girl and boy!”, read the event listing. In classic W-Hat fashion, a host of neon pigs, robots, smoking chimpanzees and wheelchair-bound Mad-Hatters laughed and danced away [...]

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Fashion Show Review: Dark Angels

by Matthias Zander Tonight’s fashion show (once again by BeCa Models, but the next one that I could actually cover after the last one), once more at E City, featured Angenlina Becquerel and Simmy Lomax of Dark Angels Designs. Though only the first 10 (and a half) outfits were shown, it was quite successful, as [...]

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