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Edwards Faces Edward In SL Presidential Race
Psychic John Edward supporters build HQ next to politico John Edwards HQBaku goon swing vote likely to go Edward – Edwards supporters silent by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Edward and Edwards campaigns running side by side Potential perils awaiting earnest politicians in the metaverse became real Sunday evening. Given the mainstream media’s breathless excitement [...]
Full StoryCommunity Page Message Sets New Record!
January 17th message of the day will not die by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk A friend pointed out Sunday that the message of the day on the Second Life web site’s community pages http://secondlife.com/community/ warned of an upgrade coming “on January 17th”. Since then, the Herald staff have watched in wonder as the message [...]
Full StoryPixel Sumo Wrestling – Winter Grand Basho
by Ebenezer Pixel It happens only once a season and 26 February kicks off the Winter Pixel Sumo Grand Basho. The event is actually 3 separate events: matches East, Central, and West. A winner will be declared at each event and at the end of the 3 events a grand champion will be chosen. Over [...]
Full StoryDarkLife Robbed – Developer Blames Open Source SL
DarkLife creator robbed of $400 USD – fingers griefers as suspects by Ouchquack Stern, spastic bastard “ZING!” The sound DarkLife players yearn for is reminiscent of the muted strum of a harp in the key of “C”. The meta-game players — both the Mages with their wands, robes and pointy magic hats, and the Fighters [...]
Full StoryNew LL Orientation Islands’ Bait and Switch
Brent Linden promises cut-rate First Land – did he miss the first land discontinued memo? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Helpful exhibit explains all about the First Land you cannot buy New citizens joining the metaverse this weekend are being presented with revamped basic training on the noobie-only orientation islands. Here brave metaverse settlers [...]
Full StoryGovernor Linden Turns Her Back on Us
By Prokofy Neva, Missing Lindens Desk. The Governor is gone…. : (
Full StoryEavesdropping in SL – The Unbearable Weight of Erroneous Assumptions
by Fiend Ludwig According to Nick Yee, of Stanford University, and his colleagues, Second Life, and by extension other virtual environments, is an ideal place to test paradigms of real-life human social interaction. In the paper The Unbearable Likeness of Being Digital: The Persistence of Nonverbal Social Norms in Online Virtual Environments, Yee asserts that: [...]
Full StoryRogue Squid Takes Over LL Server
Reliable metaverse service? – we’ve heard of it by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk The special care, high quality and reliability that has made metaverse service provider Linden Lab famous was in evidence today on both their resident web site and the login page in the second life client. Herald staff were bemused as the [...]
Full StoryTableau – Brave Survivors of Volcano’s Wrath Rebuild
[Readers saddened by reports of a horrific natural disaster in Tableau will be happy to read this tale of the triumph of the human spirit - the plucky survivors of a virgin-starved volcanic eruption are rebuilding a new life - a Mexican themed life - in hopes of moving beyond their subsistence level prim farming. [...]
Full StoryHell is Other People: The LA Times Gets to the Bottom of SL’s Growing Pains
If you are coming from the Feb. 22 LA Times article… I dunno…just know that we really really hate the Lakers. Or as we call them, the Hollywood Fakers. If you already read the article, then let me save you some trouble, and suggest that you use this link for sex, cybersex, and beyond. If [...]
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