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Yellow Journalists Hard at Work on Potboiler
by Pat the Rat Well kids, perhaps you often wonder, as I do, just how Herald editors Walker and Uri are able to support their habits. First, there is Walker, with his taste for pencil thin cuban cigars and first edition copies of subversive Estonian literature. Then there is Uri, burning gallons of diesel fuel [...]
Full StoryGet 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 [...]
Full StoryCostello Family Hosts Katrina Fundraiser
The Costello Family is hosting a Benefit Party all weekend this weekend to raise money for those devastated by Hurricane Katrina. the Party will last for 48 hours at Heavens Island starting at 6am game time Saturday September 3rd and will continue on throught til 6am Monday September 5th. There will be 2 parties, Hypnotic [...]
Full StoryConned!
In the good sense of “conned,” as in there is going to be an SL Con (convention) in New York City this coming Oct. 8-9. Actually, the 8th is just a party, and the 9th will be a hangover filled meeting with all of your favorite Lindens, FICians, and best of all: a talk by [...]
Full StoryBringing the Fight Against Cancer to Second Life
The New York Times has an article today about the Second Life Relay for Life that’s being put together by Jade Lily and SnoopyBROWN Zamboni to benefit the American Cancer Society. The benefit is a week away, August 27-28, so save the date.
Full StorySL Overtakes TSO in “Subscribers”
As the Second Life homepage map reveals, the population of SL now exceeds 40K, which, according to the most recent figures, means it has probably passed the ever plunging TSO. Of course people don’t actually *pay* for their monthly accounts on SL, so it is not clear what this statistic really means — the only [...]
Full StoryGoodbye LSL, hello Mono
In case you weren’t paying attention (like I wasn’t), Linden poobah Jim Purdick Purbrick (aka Babage Babbage Linden) has announced (and it’s already in the Wikipedia so it must be true) that in version 2.0 of SL is going to move from the much malaigned Linden Scripting Language to the open source (yet a bit [...]
Full StoryIntroducing the Herald Phunny Pages
The Herald is pleased to announce the appointment of SL resident Brian Mifflin to the cosmically prestigous position of Herald Phunny Page Editor. We will be publishing a weekly comic strip and occasional cartoons with SL subject matter. Contact Brian in game if you wish to be a contributor. (Yes we pay). We begin by [...]
Full StoryThe Surrealistic Playground of Brainiac HQ
by Leon Mechanique Where the brains are There’s just something about visiting Deevyde Maelstrom’s Brainiac HQ that really gets the mind working in odd rhythm’s. When the Herald asked me to check out the new games Deevyde released in July, I thought to myself, “That sounds like fun” (and “I could make a few quick [...]
Full StoryLindens Poach 2
David Parks Lindens have hired There cofounder Jeffrey Ventrella, and Dave Parks from RIT”s MUPPETS project — an academic/educational/open source version of SL. Zero Grace and the commentors on Cory’s blog are all sprung over the hiring of Ventrella, but I always figure you get more mileage from a mutant undergrad computer graphics d000d, and [...]
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