Archive for 'Virtual Products, Services and Reviews'

Blumfield Residents Get Their Doodle On

by Jeannedellalune Prudhomme, Special to the Herald Patch Lamington at his Doodle House in SL’s Blumfield sim BLUMFIELD — Sometimes a scribble is just a scribble. Other times, it’s a doodle and a way of life. So it is for Patch Lamington, preeminent SL doodler and popular founder of the Blumfield Residents Association (BRA). Patch, [...]

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RealFrogger Technology Revealed at SXSW

Among the innovative new technologies revealed at South by Southwest this week, there was no doubt that the most future-forward of them all was the RealFrogger street-crossing device that made its debut on the final night of South by Southwest Interactive. (Disclaimer: Development of the RealFrogger technology was sponsored by iHerald, the rarely-heard-from technology arm [...]

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Bored of War at the Jessie Weapons Fair

by Special Correspondent Lexander Solzhenitsyn Thankfully, hunting deer and foxes from horseback was recently made illegal in the UK. Any Englishman wishing to revel in the thrill of the chase must now pursue his prey as our ancestors did — stripped naked, covered from head to foot in woad and armed with nothing more than [...]

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Art in Areumdeuli

A new art gallery opens tomorrow night in Second Life’s Areumdeuli sim. The Phoenicia Gallery and Studio, located in the heart of Areumdeuli, will be run by colleagues Viola Bentham and Victor Newchurch, and will feature “original works by talented artists from SL and RL.” For its opening reception, kicking off on Friday at 6:00pm [...]

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Talk to Us

Episode #3 of Teh IntarWeb’s most lovable podcast — featuring such playahs as Cristiano Midnight, Aimee Weber, Lordfly Digeridoo, SNOOPYBrown Zamboni and myself — is now available over at Johnny Ming’s site, where, Johnny also reports, there have already been more than 1,000 downloads of the first three shows. If you want to get involved [...]

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Fashion “Exposition” Review: Ambergris Baphomet

by Matthias Zander I just finished attending a fashion exposition (I’d heasitate to even come close to calling it a "fashion show") for the SecondLife designer Ambergris Baphomet.  It was a very mixed set of clothing and raises some interesting questions about the fashion world in SecondLife in general.  Overall, it was an interesting show [...]

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Tulipmania Takes Over Second Life

by Dow Jonas The crocuses aren’t even up in real life yet, but in Second Life, people are going wild about pixelated tulips. The craze was started two weeks ago by a modest, unassuming but rather prosperous furniture and prefab creator, Desmond Shang of West Trade Imports Ltd., in Alice, who describes himself as an [...]

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Animate Yourself

Phillip Torrone, the Herald’s favorite nutjob, sends news that should have Second Life avatars dancing in the streets — no matter what dance step they prefer. As Torrone reports on the Make Magazine blog, there’s now a free avatar animation application, known as Avimator, that will allow anyone to create their own custom animations without [...]

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Tonight: Machinimists Tinker in SL

Well, it won’t be Cannes, but tonight will see BuhBuhCuh Fairchild hosting a Second Life machinima festival featuring five films created by residents within the world. The films are a mix of genres, from the narrative to educational travelogues/ (and hopefully at least one with guns). Admission’s free, and the event starts at 7pm Linden [...]

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“Ship-to-Ship” Services Now Available

The Herald staff had wanted more time to study the deep ramifications of this story, but now that Kotaku is reporting on sexual services available in EVE Online, it was clear that an editorial decision needed to be made. Kotaku reports on a chat-based cybersex service that has made its way into EVE. But if [...]

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