Archive for 'Miscellaneous'

I’M HAVING AN ALIEN BABY IN SL!

From the reaches of the Herald’s Science Fiction Desk, presided over by Budka Grosshomme, comes a cautionary tale of avatars, attachments, and what can happen when the firewall breaks. In an amazing revelation, Zzyzzk Threadmore announced that she suddenly found her avatar pregnant when she logged on last week. “At first I thought it was [...]

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Interview with “Hangin On” Producer Icon Serpentine

By Cienna Samiam With the advent of 1.6, streaming video is now a reality in Second Life. Theaters and mini-screens are rapidly becoming common across the grid, and everything from movies to animated shorts to comedy and more are finding their way into our virtual living rooms. Amongst the trickling stream of new media, there [...]

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Magellan Misses the Boat to Ansheland

by Walker Spaight Ansheland resident Iron Perth after a recent desert journey Though he was the first avatar to set whisky-stained sneaker on the moth-eaten continent to the north of the main Grid, intrepid explorer Magellan Linden seems to have missed the boat to a new sub-continent that sprang up earlier this week southwest of [...]

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Post Six Grrrl – Mikayla Gillespie

The Herald is pleased to present this week’s Post Six Grrrl – Mikayla Gillespie. Mikayla is co-owner of a mysterious island (“Talese”) coming soon to SL, and also co-owner of the art galleries in Whitlock. A big thank you goes out to Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players Magazine (available at Semang (208, 170)), who [...]

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Bow Padre: Uri Remembers Pope JP2

by Urizenus I was on the Herald yacht in Gulf of Mexico, fishing with Tom Delay, when the call came. I knew it was coming, but I was expecting the call to come from Condi. It was Ambassador Grudzinski. “Czesc, Uri. Karol’s gone.” I had Sven turn the yacht towards port, called Brad and had [...]

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Bedazzled and Stark Bollock Naked

The Herald staff aren’t always as quick off the mark as we’d like to be. When a forum thread on the Bedazzle Nude pics got underway, our editorial board were passed out underneath a poker table following a drunken brawl over the six aces Uri had found in his shirt-sleeve.

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Which Came First: the Creativity or the Creator?

by Budka Groshomme Wander at random through Second Life and creativity seems to spring from every corner. Everyone, it seems, is building something. It might be trivial, ugly, overstated, ornate, minimalist, inconsequential, heroic, or offensive but, by God, they are building it! The creative variety is overwhelming. If you doubt this, take a look at [...]

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Wanking on about NGJ in The NYT

Forever playing catch-up to Second Life Herald, the New York Times today ran an article on New Games Journalism, days after readers of the Herald got the skinny from Neal Stewart and Walker Spaight. By gum, the author of the NYT piece — Mark Wallace — sure sounds a lot like our Walker Spaight. He [...]

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Sneak-Peak at Second Life’s Future Rendering Engine – ’2.0′

This snapshot of Second Life’s unreleased 2.0 Rendering Engine was leaked to the Herald Ben Linden yesterday posted to the SL Forums 9 screenshots showing the current progress of Second Life’s future rendering engine. These screenshots had been scattered and hidden throughout the grid as part of a sadistic treasure-hunt but were quickly recovered by [...]

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Fashion Review: Asri Falcone

by Chipsen Queso It’s my pleasure to introduce to you a new fashion writer for the Herald, Chipsen Queso! Chipsen will be doing reviews of clothing lines and fashion shows for us. If you have any clothing you wish for her to review for publication in the Herald, feel free to drop her a folder [...]

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