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Teh Clones Invade Friendster
Loyal readers of the Herald may recall several episodes of cloning that took place back when the Herald had its HQ in The Sims Online. Most notable was the episode involving a toon named Lead Architect, who was impersonated by a scammer named Lead Archeticht, who used the original’s good name to abscond with unsuspecting [...]
Full StoryUlrika Zugzwang Officially Declared a Cyber-Terrorist
"That was a short trip from Thomas Jefferson to Osama Bin Laden let metell you. So when the history books are written will I be waving a flagor burning a flag?" These were the words of Ulrika Zugzwang on Tuesday afternoon after learning that she had officially been declared a cyber-terrorist and had been banned [...]
Full StoryTown Hall Audio File Now Available, Transcript TK
The audio file of last week’s Town Hall meeting with Philip Linden is now available for listening at this link. The recording is also being transcribed into text format at the moment, and should be available within 48 hours, according to SecondCast‘s Johnny Ming. Enjoy! (Or be enraged, if you prefer to roll that way.)
Full StoryDog Days of August for SLCC?
According to a post over at 3pointD.com, this year’s Second Life Community Convention is rumored to be scheduled for the dog days of mid-August, out in sunny San Francisco. Not much more information has surfaced yet, other than the fact that it looks like SL’s premier meatspace meet-up will take up three days this year [...]
Full StorySteamPunks Seek Sim Funds
A new steampunk group is now taking donations for the creation of a steampunk sim in Second Life. Interestingly, they’ve built a model of their proposed cityscape in the Celadon sim, creating what’s in effect a little virtual virtual world. Use the SLurlPane at Herald affiliate site 3pointd.com to go direct to Celadon, and check [...]
Full StoryMarsellus Wallace on the Air
G’Day World, an Australian podcast hosted by Cameron Reilly of the Podcast Network, has a hilarious and revealing interview up with Second Life mafia boss (and occasional Herald correspondent) Marsellus Wallace, in which Mars goes into a surprising amount of detail about just how his SL mafia works (and how it used to work when [...]
Full StoryLL Changes Town Hall Format
Well, it seems King Philip wasn’t so excited about talking to the SecondCast crew after all. It now seems residents will get to speak directly to LL’s CEO himself, calling in to Johnny Ming, who will then screen the calls and patch them through just as a radio host would. Johnny will hopefully have someone [...]
Full StoryTown Hall Meetings Take to the Airwaves
SL’s Town Hall meetings are getting an overhaul. When King Philip himself logs in tomorrow to field resident questions at 7:00pm SLT, it won’t be in the usual lag-fraught, unreadable chat format, but in an audio feed streamed all over the Grid. SL resident Johnny Ming’s SecondCast was recently contracted to produce the audio Town [...]
Full StorySL Classifieds Hit the Web — Kinda
As announced yesterday in this forum posting, the Classifieds section of the SL in-world interface is now available on the Web. There’s not a lot of functionality to it at this point — no search, no ability to purchase items. All it allows you to do is browse a sequential list of the various categories, [...]
Full StoryBlumfield Residents Get Their Doodle On
by Jeannedellalune Prudhomme, Special to the Herald Patch Lamington at his Doodle House in SL’s Blumfield sim BLUMFIELD — Sometimes a scribble is just a scribble. Other times, it’s a doodle and a way of life. So it is for Patch Lamington, preeminent SL doodler and popular founder of the Blumfield Residents Association (BRA). Patch, [...]
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