The Alphaville Herald

Support Virtuality — Help Game A Netflix Popularity Contest!!!

by Idoru Wellman, staff writer

The Netflix “Find Your Voice film competition” is a great new game where everyone can participate by forming gangs to vote for the independent film maker that best represents their community and interests. Consider this a more positive version of the gang abuse report used in Second Life to get the [...]

A Virtual Pilgrim’s Progress — The First Part

A newbie learns how to dance, finds a job, considers an avatar sex change
by Roby Core
I was reading some Google news the first time I’d ever heard about the Second life virtual world, and I thought it would have been childish stuff, but I got curious, and now I’ve picked a very basic avatar available [...]

How to Skin a Cat (or a Neko)

by Stacia Villota, virtual Neko
Jungle Voodoo’s Leopard skins, “Neko style” (click any of these photos to enlarge)
One of the questions I hear most often is where to find good skins for Nekos. While it would be easy to provide the names of the most popular Neko stores that sell skins, I prefer a challenge. [...]

Double Prim Land Bugfix To Scrog SL?

Aim gun at foot, pull trigger, DDOS your own game
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
Shocking rumors were flying in the metaverse tonight suggesting that a Linden Lab bug fix later this week could result in a serious case of massive prim return – and possible self-inflicted denial of service on “your world, your imagination”. According [...]

Red Light Center Exposed — Part 4: Bringing It Home

Red Light Center neko confused by SL interface, pay-as-you-go and lag a concern for GoreansThe Herald explores worlds beyond Second Life
by Jessica Holyoke, virtual world explorer

I’m standing in a virtual world, populated by people who like virtual sex or at least virtual relationships. The question in my mind is, why aren’t they in Second [...]

Red Light Center Exposed — Part 3: Unhitched

Red Light Center leather clad dommes, furries hard to findThe Herald explores worlds beyond Second Life
by Jessica Holyoke, virtual world explorer
I know everyone has been dying to find out more about the kinkier side of things in Red Light Center. Believe me, so do I. Tracking down the kinkier side of things in RLC is [...]

Of Memes and Men — A Newbie’s Guide to Woodbury University

Welcome to teh Internets
by Anise Hankins
Woodbury University. Some of you may know it as a school, but there’s a side of Woodbury University that extends far past just that. It’s also a place in the metaverse we know and love as Second Life. It’s an interesting place where both students and visitors alike can come [...]

Peace March Saturday

straight talk about violence
by Jessica Holyoke
Drive By Agony along with The Blue Angel Police and Firefighters Memorial, victims of crime and concerned SL citizens, will hold a March for Peace  in SL April 19th at 1pm by marching on the Virtual Capitol Hill   http://slurl.com/secondlife/Capitol%20Hill%201/129/1/32 .  In conjunction with the march, a live music festival for [...]

‘Cos I Am Beautiful

How to win friends and influence avatars
by Aloe Stradling
Okay, you’re new in SL, and hot to trot. You explored around a bit, mastered the controls, and are ready to find a date. Or maybe just a playmate. You wander from sim to sim, wading through crowds of people, until someone catches your eye. [...]

The Fashionista’s Guide to IP Anonymizers

Fashionista drama means everyone can take hints from the goons and griefers
by Tenshi Vielle
When one is browsing the web and doing nefarious things, wouldn’t you just hate to leave a trail of IP address footprints that will show up if, say, you were dumb enough to post on a website as both your main and [...]