Archive for 'Miscellaneous'

Post Six Grrrl Queenie Extraordinaire

The Herald is now very happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Queenie Extraordinaire! Queenie is the co-owner of Club Hellraiser in SecondLife and is a large part of the day-to-day operations of RockNgames Radio, which can be heard all throughout SecondLife and in many other games. We would also like to take [...]

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Ad Astra, and Even Further, Maybe

by Budka Groshomme Second Life is in many respects an alternative life, a dimension one step away from the mundane reality that marks our daily grind. In here, in this expansive, magical world, there are lions and tigers and, oh my, such wonderful things to see and do. It occurred to me that perhaps I [...]

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What Lies Beneath: A Meditation on the Digisoul

by Budka Groshomme When I was a kid I wondered, as most of my era did, whether the light in the icebox really went out when the door closed. Several attempts at divining this led only to a pinched nose. Although I have grown more careful about where I stick my nose since then, my [...]

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Virtually In Love

The Herald is proud to introduce the writing debut of Second Life’s famous nostril-wrestling, Linden-pashing, fashion designer and all-round social butterfly – Aimee Weber. Aimee takes a look at spring-romance, in this that special time of year when, as my parents explained it, all the birds make sweet, sweet love to all the bees singing [...]

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Op/Ed: Linden Labs and Griefers – Hands on or off?

by Neal Stewart OKKKAY? One of the perks of working for the Herald, other than the sex, drugs and heavy metal music… and the power… and the riches… other than those, one of… and the fame…. other than those, one of the perks is being able to pass your forum posts off as Op/Ed’s. The [...]

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Post Six Grrrl Diamond Hope

The Herald is now very happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Diamond Hope! Diamond is a gorgeous lady who you certainly don’t want to mess with if you’re at “da Penthouse,” the club she is security for, and was discovered by the Herald’s own Walker Spaight. We would also like to take [...]

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Off the Grid with Walker Spaight: The Making of a Post Six Grrrl

Diamond Hope, Post Six Grrrl When I first met Diamond Hope she was standing in Walleye sim wearing shorts, white boots and a skimpy white halter top, a pistol strapped to her right thigh. A ribbon of thong peeked out from below her shorts, inviting my imagination. My imagination, I’m not ashamed to say, took [...]

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Linden Lab Supports Invasion of Your Privacy?

New friend…. or spy for your girlfriend? A look at the recent dust-up over detective agencies By Cienna Samiam My editor asked me if I would be interested in doing a story about in-world detective agencies. I scanned the forums and noted the several threads [1, 2, 3] on the matter, read Hamlet’s “Mc-Story” and [...]

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Editorial: Save the Oil Rig!

The ANWR oil rig Having now explored where only Lindens had gone before and after reading What Philip Said At the Oil Rig on Wednesday night and other SL forum threads, the Herald’s editorial board feels it important that the Lindens consider preserving some of the landmark builds that made the new northern continent a [...]

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Prok’s Candid Conversations with the Core: Cristiano Midnight, Part Two

Is Prokofy “inner core”? After the enthusiastic reception that greeted Part One of Prokofy Neva’s Candid Conversation with Cristiano Midnight (well, contentious reception, anyway), the Herald’s crack fact-checking team has double- and triple-checked Part Two for contextual errors and asset-server screw-ups. We’re sure our readers will point out any that slipped through, but to do [...]

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