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Bash and Crash on Unreal:SL’s Opening Night
Bedazzle’s much-anticipated Unreal:SL kicked off its weekend-long opening festivities last night with a crowded dance party that had everyone in attendance kicking up their heels — so much so that the sim crashed before the party was much more than an hour old.
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl Melody Parks
The Herald is happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, even on time this week! Her name is Melody Parks. She says that she really enjoys both wandering around SecondLife and modeling. The Herald would like to take this opportunity to thank Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players Magazine for these pictures and [...]
Full StoryOutrage Over W-Hat Twin Towers Meets PoMoBabble Defense
by Brody MacDonald and Walker Spaight New controversy erupted recently over a W-Hat build in Baku sim depicting New York City’s World Trade Center towers under attack, as they were on September 11, 2001. But in addition to questions of taste, both the build and the community’s reaction to it also raise questions about just [...]
Full StoryLand Ho!
(Image stolen from secondlife.com) A new world (or at least a new sim or three) has apparently been discovered north of the SL grid.
Full StoryExtinct Native American Tribe Finds Second Wind
by Neal Stewart Duuya Herbst, taking the tribe to SL “The tribes are taking over the world [...] Tribes are agendas. Aesthetics. Ethos. Traditions. Ways of getting things done. They’re competitive. They may not all be based on time-zones. There are knitting Tribes and vampire fan-fiction Tribes and Christian rock tribes, but they’ve always existed.”– [...]
Full StoryDiary of a Second Life Noob, part 2
by Montserrat Snakeankle [In Montserrat's last entry, posted many many SL moons ago, we found her coping with inadequate hardware and a failed attempt to enter SL. In this post, after a $2K upgrade, Montserrat gets back on the horse that threw her.]
Full StoryRising from the Ashes: The SimCast Gaming System
by Matthias Zander Many remember the splitting of ways that the SimCast development team suffered in November of last year, and the call for an open-source gaming system that followed. This was all caused by the departure of the project’s head programmer, Azelda Garcia. Like the mythical phoenix, however, the project has risen from the [...]
Full Story‘people think I’m teh sexy’: A Conversation With SL’s Charles Manson Stalker
by Neal Stewart grandduke Ferdinand, sometime Charles-Manson-look-alike. Stalker or teh sexy? Griefer or misunderstood? Recently, a Second Life resident reported on her blog an incident that she had experienced in-world: For some time, an avatar dressed as Charles Manson had hung around the bedroom of her virtual residence, watching her and brandishing a knife. She [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl Daphne Molinari
The Herald is pleased to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, just a day later than usual because of some server problems we’ve been experiencing. This week’s girl is Daphne Molinari. Daphne is a long-time resident of SecondLife who is very involved in the modeling world, being an officer of the Top Models group [...]
Full StoryLuck Has Nothing To Do With It
A Second Life Herald parable The following is a chat log of an actual SL conversation, submitted by a pair of luckless gamblers for your edification. Not one word has been changed. Poker Player #1: you wanna hear a funny story? Poker Player #2: sure
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