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Second Life Running on Linux?
Acording to a comment he posted on Boing Boing, this week Cory Linden is going to be at the Chaos Computer ClubCon (ah ok, so now it is upscale and is called the Chaos Communication Congress) in Berlin. Plus he promises to be giving a public demo of the SL client running on Linux. That [...]
Full StoryAre You Ready for the Avi of the Year Awards?
Herald Staffer with One of the Avatar of the Year Trophies! Once again, boys and girls, it’s time for the most eagerly awaited event of the virtual journalistic year: the Second Life Herald’s Second Annual Avatar of the Year Awards. Each year, the Herald brings you the three avatars who have had the most impact [...]
Full StoryGood Riddance: SL Says Goodbye to Dwelloper Awards
Uri and Prok do Some Last Minute Christmas Camping by Dow Jonas With the advent of camp chairs in the last month, Robin Linden’s announcement of the end of the Developer Incentive Awards (DIA), or the “Dwelloper Awards,” as they were dubbed, came as no surprise to most of the hundred-odd recipients of the cash [...]
Full StoryPost 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.
Full StorySex 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!
Full StorySlustler in the Newz
Wired News is running a story on SL virtual nudie magazine/book Slustler. The article makes it out to be something new, but of course it comes in a long SL tradition that includes Players and Erogenous Zone, but this one is certainly the biggest — coming in at 100 pages. It is also in the [...]
Full StoryIncriminating Photos Leaked from Herald Birthday Party
“Banned” Gang Leader One Song Schmoozes with Pathfinder Linden at Herald Debauche. The Herald Staff did their best to keep it all under wraps, but pictures of the virtual debauche that was the 2nd Birthday Party of the Herald have been leaked into the blogosphere by New Games Journalism legend Always_Black. Shit. Well, there is [...]
Full StorySex and Games. Why Didn’t We Think of That? Oh Wait…
The International Game Developers Association finally has a Special Interest Group dedicted to Sex in/and/of Games, and a 1337 new blog called Sex and Games to cover it (and what we want to know is, what took them so long). There is also a discussion forum here. Great stuff, but honestly, they would be *lost* [...]
Full StoryRoleplay or Landgrab? As the Elf Council Debates, only the Orcs Know for Sure!!!
Are these guys fugly or what? In the hall of mirrors that is Second Life, what does it mean when a band of plug ugly Orcs invite the peaceful elven folk to a game of combat roleplay? Is it all in fun, or does something more sinister lurk beneath the surface? Elven Queen Forcythia, seeing [...]
Full StoryCBC Confirms Linden Attempts to Discredit Plastic Duck in RL
Wow, kudos to Tony Walsh (aka Rat Boy aka Zero Grace) for contacting the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and confirming that the document we republished in the Herald was in fact an excerpt from an actual letter send by Linden Lab to the CBC. According to Tony’s contacts at the CBC, the letter was sent by [...]
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