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Island Land Scamming, Anyone?
Former residents claim Valentines day eviction massacre in “The Tropicana” sim, hire SL/RL lawyer to arbitrate island land dispute by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk I met one of a rare breed Saturday. Joshua Sao is a 5 month metaverse resident who owns “The Tropicana” island sim yet cannot recall when he bought his island, [...]
Full StoryHerald Correspondent Attacked by Bill Cosby, Investigation Launched
by Jimbo Quality [Editor's Note: Jimbo's investigation into the perpetrators of the attack described below is continuing. As is the Herald's into how this guy get to write for our paper in the first place.--Walker Spaight] If you’re like me, you often find yourself camping a camping chair at a place like the LV Casino [...]
Full StoryLindens Move to Throttle SL
Lindens realize serving paying customers makes sense? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Robin Linden today announced that it could be possible that just maybe on a very busy day in the metaverse it might perhaps occasionally make some sense to sometimes limit who can log in – especially if nothing is working right anyway. [...]
Full StoryWanted: World-Bearer
Photo by Colin Gregory Palmer of “Atlas” by Lee Lawrie and Rene Chambellan, in the Art Deco style (1936) at Rockefeller Center. Creative Commons Attribution By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Worlds, Planets, Universes, Metaverses, and Server Farms So Large That Even the Men of Science Are Amazed The news that Philip Rosedale has personally posted [...]
Full StorySHAME! Two Herald Reporters Jailed!
Disgraced Mistral and Breaker serve time in SLAB Prison by Denise Levertov, New Media Observer In a development sure to roil the metaverse journalistic scene, Herald Editrix Pixeleen Mistral and advice columnist Heartun Breaker were caught serving time in the SLAB Prison in Albata sim Thursday evening. Both journalists we captured on prison surveillance video [...]
Full StoryYAAR! The Pirates of Sanchon, Parte the Fourthe
by Tiny Newt HMS Endeavour [Editor's Note: Though the Herald navy had lost sight of Captain Tiny Newt's crew on the Endeavour in recent weeks, we rejoin them now as they commence their original mission: the exploration of virtual parts unknown...--Walker Spaight] Parte the Fourthe: In Which We Are Nearly Able To Begin The crew [...]
Full StoryIntersexed Avatar Children Hard to Find
Daddy/little girl, mom/daughter are most popular ageplay groups by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk For those who’s Second Life might not be complete without acting out fantasies with hermaphrodite child avatars – the odds do not look good. But an exclusive Herald study suggests that daddy/little girl ageplay is popular among 44% of those who [...]
Full StorySL Double Dare – Games From The Shadows
by Onder Skall I’m fairly compulsive when it comes to my web surfing, so how I ended up at the SL Double Dare blog is a bit of a mystery even to me. I found myself looking at featureless black with sparse grey text describing a new game of dares in Second Life. Members would [...]
Full StoryMax Case Updates Sim Neighbours
Texas and California – does location matter? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Finding out where your sim’s server is in real life has just gotten easier thanks to an updated version of Max Case’s Sim Neighbours tool. Giving virtual land owners easy access to information about where their server is located and which other [...]
Full StoryHard Crash
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Virtual Estate Second Life went offline completely at about 10:50 pm SLT, after a very rough evening of avatars reporting constant hard crashes, teleport fails, transactions not going through, objects not rezzing out, etc. The valiant-sounding error message about “our best efforts” just went up, but even the website has [...]
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