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Slash Dotted Yet Again

The leaked pages from the forthcoming Herald potboiler have yielded yet another Slash Dotting and discussion of the leading journalists of the metaverse: me and Walker. Some comments are not so kind: “typical ignorant stuckup journalist”. Another suggests I should log into Second Life where I would learn that everyone is 25 or older. Riiiiiight. [...]

Ten Minutes Before the Mast: Second Life Sailing Federation lays down the law

by Budka Groshomme In an effort to bring some measure of control to what was rapidly becoming a chaotic arena of competitive sailboat racing, the Second Life Sailing Federation (SLSF) has adopted parts of sailing’s official Right of Way (ROW) rules. The ROW rules dictate that, based on the wind and your heading, you can’t [...]

Get Thee to the Library!

Second Life resident Wandering Yaffle’s new library in the Furness sim truly deserves a better headline pun than that, but such are the deadline pressures of life at the Herald that it was all we could come up with on short notice. To really do the thing justice, you’ll have to get your virtual asses [...]

Post Six Grrrl: Haver Cole

The Herald is happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Haver Cole! Haver absolutely loves Primtionary, nudity, and anything created by Starley Therian, happens to be the only Haver in SecondLife, and is seemingly quite attracted to brilliance. My thanks go out to Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players Magazine for these wonderful [...]

RAC ‘Em Up — Virtual Lobbyists Push On

by Seldon Metropolitan Second Life’s new Resident Action Committee met for a second time early Monday morning for a conference between RAC members and Robin and Phillip Linden to discuss the concerns mulled over during last Sunday’s inaugural session. Notably absent from the proceedings was RAC founder Lordfly Didgeridoo, as the unusually early meeting time [...]

Kremlinden Lab Rejects User Bill of Rights

In a disappointing ruling by Chairman Rosedale and Kremlinden Lab, a popular user-initiated proposal to institutionalize avatar rights has been rejected without credible justification. The proposal, called for the following rights: freedom of speechfreedom of expression in buildsfreedom of pressfreedom to bear arms in combat areasthe right to know charges against oneselfthe right to self-representation [...]

GREAT BUILDERS OF SL: PART 2: GURGON GRUMBY, A MAN AND HIS DOG

GURGON AND BETA In this article, the Herald continues its series of interviews with great builders of SL (actually we didn’t know there was a series, but what the hey — I guess there is now!). In the last interview we talked to Yadni Monde, in this interview Monsterrat Snakeankle speaks with his protege Gurgon [...]

Post Six Grrrls Sasha Dulce and Evening Spectre

The Herald is happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrls, Sasha Dulce and Evening Spectre! In a unique Post Six first, this week, we have a set of twins as our Post Six Grrrls, photographed together! Both Sasha and Evening have tried out the escorting business in SecondLife, but have since moved on. [...]

Getting Your Burn On

Walker confronts The Man There’s still one more weekend to go before the third annual Burning Life festival gets wiped from the face of Second Life. By now, of course, you’ve missed most of the virtual hallucinogens that were being handed out on the six Burning Life sims, as well as the wild cybering we [...]

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