Archive for 'News from Second Life'

Hippiestock and the Sense of Community

by Sigmund Leominster “So shines a good deed in a naughty world.” Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice. The 21st century has gotten off to a good start by taking all the selfish tendencies of the 1980’s and layering on a liberal slathering of cynicism and weariness, wrapped in narcissism, irony, and pseudo-intellectualism that makes it [...]

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Big Money in the Virtual Baby Trade

Adoption in Second Life – Part 3 by Justine Babii real pregnancy – NEKO version – watch your baby grow little ears and tail My last article in this series related my experiences in finding some rather unseemly characters hanging around at adoption places. Of course there are questionable characters everywhere, in real life and [...]

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The Triumphant Return of Jimbo Quality – Part 3

Jimbo Quality and the Scarlet Pimple Hell, The Story’s Epic Contusion. by Jimbo Quality After a couple of days at the Herald Bunker in Jessie, life was good. Better than good in some ways. Miss Pix keeps the fridge well stocked and doesn’t seem to notice I’m mooching from it, the couches are soft and [...]

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Rod Humble: Current SL Players Key to Growth

Better shoes might help, too Linden Lab CEO Rod Humble believes giving current Second Life players better tools for content creation is a key to increasing interest in the struggling virtual world. The new leader of Second Life said Friday that first step in getting more players to sign up is "to have more people [...]

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The Triumphant Return of Jimbo Quality — Part 2

Jimbo Quality Finds a Home: the boring part in the middle of a three part series. by Jimbo Quality, haiku master and munitions technician After awakening from my year long slumber and finding the Herald offices gone, I was happy to see my invisible friend Jeebus log on. He was surprised I was awake, I [...]

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The Triumphant Return of Jimbo Quality – Part 1

by Jimbo Quality, Haiku master I didn’t know what time it was, or where I was, all I knew was that someone was shaking me. “Jimbo,” a voice kept saying, “you have to wake up, the Herald needs you.” I awoke and to my surprise it was Justine Babii, the cute little Post 6 Photographer [...]

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Big Asses and Little Perverts – Adoption in Second Life Part 2

Justine Gets Grossed Out by Justine Babii A couple of days after my initial trip to investigate adoption in Second Life, I grabbed a friend and dragged her into my plan to scope out an adoption agency and go through the adoption process- stopping, of course, before the part where we actually end up with [...]

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Adoption in Second Life

Part the First: Justine gets judgmental by Justine Babii Justine and a pregnant friend A friend of mine is pregnant in SL. I popped in to see her this morning and “Surprise!” she has an adorable little baby bump on her avie. Now, immediately I started grilling her, because this is a normally sensible woman, [...]

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Angry Elf King to LL: Stop Blocking Our PG Events!!!

Wayfinder Wishbringer of the Elf Clan is very unhappy with Linden Lab – and believes that the struggling metaverse service provider may be attempting to drive PG sims out of the walled garden of Second Life. The angry elf’s evidence? The shocking inability of PG sim owners to post to SL Events due to what [...]

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Post 6 Party Wrap Up: Tambourines & Dance Poles

by Socialista Butterfly On Sunday, the Glitterati, Illuminati, Post 6 Models and all creatures great and small of Second Life gathered at Sinister’s for a houseparty for the ages. The sim filled to near capacity, but didn’t falter or crash – though it did send Post 6 Photographer Timothy Morpork and Herald Editrix Pixeleen Mistral [...]

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