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Sin Under Florida Sun! Sheep Meet Stroker: Sex-Toy Services for Second Life?
Herald Correspondent Pat the Rat infiltrated the recent corporate retreat of metaverse services providers
Full StoryOpen Letter to Linden Lab
Metaverse residents ask LL to fix the game by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk In an attempt to entice game maker Linden Lab into fixing problems with Second Life, an open letter asking that long term problems with the virtual world be fixed before more new features are added has been signed by over 600 [...]
Full StoryThe Tringo Kid
by Kris Dibou, warrior poet/pirate They called her The Tringo KidIf she had money, then that’s all she didShould they interrupt her gameShe’d send them home lameBe they human, furry or squid She wore her gun low on the hipA cigarette hung off from her lipHer finger’d be itchingHer eye’d be twitchingAnd her drink, slowly [...]
Full StorySecond Life Economic Statistics Analyzed
by Curious Rousselot, metaverse numerologist As many of us are no doubt aware; Linden Lab publishes statistics about Second Life. Conveniently they also make the historical data available in Excell and OpenOffice, and Google Docs format. This gives us here at the Herald a chance to see how the economy of Second Life is doing [...]
Full StoryStep Off the Path
by Fiend Ludwig Veiled Conundrum: Second Life sculpture by Xantherus Halberd, 2007 [Editor's Note: It's no longer clear to me whether we sent Herald correspondent Fiend Ludwig to interview SL gallerist Xantherus Halberd before or after the metaverse meetup last month that was hosted by Xantherus's typist, New York artist Annie Ok, but here at [...]
Full StoryUri Sells Out. Again!
Herald Founder to be Judge for Coca Cola Virtual Thirst Contest Herald founder, cyberlebrity and international playah Urizenus Sklar has been tapped to be one of the judges in the Coca Cola “Virtual Thirst” contest. In this in depth interview, Herald stringer Mike “Boat Guy” Allers asks the hard hitting questions and probes the nature [...]
Full StoryA FIC and Facile Guide to Second Life
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Affairs Available at amazon.com While we wearily wait for Uri’s and Walker’s book to come out (when, Uri, oh, when?!), and while we save up $22.04 US for the expenso Hamlet’s et. al Official Guide to Second Life, we now have the Unofficial Tourists’ Guide to Second Life by [...]
Full StoryIs Second Life Liberation Army Founder Part of a Corporate Spy Firm?
Solidad Sugarbeet resigns from SLLA leadership – claims Marshal Cahill is part of real life “corporate intelligence/security firm” by Bayesian Textbot Today, the following notice went out to the Second Life Liberation Army (SLLA): Dear SLLA members: Via an anonymous source, it has come to my attention that Marshal Cahill is the real life owner [...]
Full StoryUpdated: Is Business Week Stealing Herald Intellectual Property?
Update: April 18, 10:30PM Linden Time As of 10:30 this morning the SL Herald attribution has been added to the BallerMoMo pic. Thanks to author Douglas Macmilllan for getting Business Week to fix this in a timely manner. As Prokofy Neva noted on April 16, Business Week is running an online article in which they [...]
Full StoryToday in Second Life, Thursday April 12, 2007
By Prokofy Neva, Meaningless Numbers Cruncher and Irrelevant Facts Driller Today in Second Life: o if you add up all the numbers of today’s date, you get the number 7, which is the number of holes in the human heado Some Linden must be getting a pay-off as there are $26,000 in SINKS for April [...]
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