Archive for 'Miscellaneous'

Love and Pixels

I never tire of writing about Diamond Hope, the hot young av who found a real-world husband after appearing in the pages of the Herald. So now, in my guise as uber-journalist Mark Wallace, I’ve put her in The Escapist as part of its Valentine’s Day issue. The piece recaps the story of young Di’s [...]

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Herald TV: Exclusive Footage of the Janet Jackson Wardrobe Malfunction!

Yes, we know that SL is full of 1337 machinima crews making lots of 1337 machinima.  But in the Herald we prefer the grainy, gritty reality that we get from the cheap ass video cameras used by our faithful readers and reporters.  Do you have a video of a mafia hit?  A protest?  A socialist/skinhead [...]

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We’ve Moved!

The Second Life Herald has moved to http://www.secondlifeherald.com. Sorry for the inconvenience, but it’s all part of our effort to Take Over Teh World!!!!!

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Post Six Grrrl Sibele Ingmann

The Herald is very happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Sibele Ingmann! Sibele was introduced to SecondLife by the famous designer treebee Withnail, and loves the color pink and elephants! Our thanks to Heart Wishbringer and Joe Stravinsky for photographing and submitting this Post Six Grrrl.

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Sex Please. It’s for the Cause of JOURNALISM

MMorgy.com, displaying their tradition of fully immersive cyber-journalism is asking for Second Life residents to cyber with them so that they can write an informed story about the experience. Crimey guys, if you can’t find a date in SL you have got freaking problems!

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Spotted in the News: That Other Book on Virtual Worlds

The Economist gets down with Ted Castronova this week, calling his new book an “illuminating guide to these new synthetic worlds.” We agreed back in October. If you haven’t already bought your copy, now’s the time — you only have three more months to read it before the Doomsday Book appears.

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A Merry Denominational Xmas to You!

Happy Hannukah! Joyous Kwanzaa! Lovely Diwali! Have a nice Ramadan! Merrrrrry Christmas!!!!1! That’s what Blizzard Entertainment, the corporate cog behind World of Warcraft, is saying to their 4 million-plus players this holiday season. A new holiday patch released this week adds some fun new content to the game, in the form of a big Christmas [...]

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EA to Pay $680 Mil for Jamdat Mobile

EA Corporate Headquarters Last new years I predicted that EA would shell out a billion for another game company. I’m saying that their purchase of Jamdat Mobile is close enough to count as a score. Notice I also predicted a griefer attack that took out the SL grid. I’m just wiping the floor with Cory [...]

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Announcement: CBC Radio looking for Toronto area SLers

Thanks to Zero Grace for passing along this message: The pilot episode of a new radio show airing on CBC Radio intends onfeaturing one or more Second Life residents in their daily onlineactivities. Lindsay Michael from the show is looking to get in tough withToronto, Canada residents who spend a lot of time in Second [...]

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Post Six Grrrl dreams Anubis

The Herald is very happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, dreams Anubis! Dreams is a long-time SecondLife resident who is very short-winded and who loves building and making textures in PhotoShop! Our thanks to Heart Wishbringer and Joe Stravinsky for photographing and submitting this Post Six Grrrl.

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