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RIP Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007
By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk Second Life avatars gathered again tonight at the Velvet club in Iron Fist to leave flowers, candles, cigs, and drinks in memory of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, a beloved internationally-known American author who died April 11 at the age of 84 of brain injury suffered after a fall. Somehow a [...]
Full StoryAurel Miles – Post 6 Grrrl
[Editrix’s note: Aurel Miles has been taking some time away from her writing to work on a super curvey look that swept the judges at the Post 6 Grrrl pageant off their feet. Marilyn Murphy - the visionary, photographer, and publisher of Players - SL’s in-world erotica magazine - captured this special girl and her [...]
Full StoryLinden Lab Removes User Content
Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs In an unprecedented move for a company that prides itself on promoting user creativity and user content, Linden Lab announced today that they will be removing user content — the ratings section on the avatars. When the Lindens GOM’d the GOM, they removed the rationale for an independent currency market, but [...]
Full StoryThe Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend: Federation Joins War Against AN
By Omega Groshomme, SL Herald War Correspondent Across the wasteland. Walking, walking, now stumbling, now climbing over debris. All around me the battlefield is littered with the bodies of AN soldiers, craters, burning buildings and totaled vehicles. As I navigate the shrapnel-riddled dirt I come over the crest of a hill to see them: A [...]
Full StoryApril 14th is Bandana Day!!!
Locks of Love Hopes You’ll Wear a Bandana on April 14th. In an event that is tied to the hugely popular Hair Fair ’07, “Bandana Day” is hoping to get you to wear a bandana instead of prim hair on Saturday, April 14th. Says Locks of Love charity liaison for 2007 Celebrity Trollop, “The idea [...]
Full StoryWord of Mouth Marketing a Winning Strategy for Post Sixx Contest
by Muffin K. Smith, Herald grrrl about town. Fox Cavern- Post Sixx grrls are learning that beauty is more than pixel deep, because last week’s Post Sixx grrrl pageant seemed to come down to personality and brains as the beauties who took the stage were “really too close to call” according to pageant judge Marilyn [...]
Full StorySecond Life Perfect, No Help Needed
By Prokofy Neva, Kremlindenologist Linden Lab, makers of the 3-d streaming virtual world Second Life, announced that it was finished — and perfect–today, during office hours. Robin Linden, VP of Community and Support, confirmed at her office hours Tuesday that “Live Help” will be shut down. The 24/7 service will no longer be needed because [...]
Full StoryCopybot Infestation in Amella
Lindens suggest filing bot abuse reports one at a time – for hundreds of bots by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk When I swung by the Herald offices this evening, the red “hot tip” light was blinking, and two photographs of what appear to be avatar-copying copybots in action were in the inbox – along [...]
Full StoryWAR!
Alliance Navy and Merczateers too busy fighting each other to fight griefers by Curious Rousselot, war correspondent [UPDATE: the lost Alliance Navy pictures have been recovered from the combat-damaged laptop and added to this story. note - underscoring the dangers in covering virtual warfare, Ms. Rousselot's laptop was damaged while covering this story - we [...]
Full StoryTalks between Alliance Navy and Merczateers Stall. Will it be War Without End?
Merczateer Proteus Hand I was going about some routine editorial work in the Herald bunker in Jessie when an urgent communiqué from a Herald informant splashed onto my screen. According to the informant, the two great armies of Second Life – the Aliance Navy and the Merczateers were engaged in skirmishes again. It had been [...]
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