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Blackjack! or How To Lose Your Shirt in Second Life
by Magnus Rothlisberger [Editor's note: This shocking tale of loss reaches us from Second Life resident Magnus Rothlisberger, who hopefully now knows better than to keep much cash in his PayPal account. A cautionary tale.--Walker Spaight] Armed with a popular betting strategy I set out to test the internet gambling goodness in Second Life. I [...]
Full StoryOne Million Dollars Won’t Buy Mother’s Love
by Heartun Breaker, syndicated advice columnist. [Editrix's note: This column marks the debut of a new irregular verb -- -– -- which is copyrighted intellectual property of the Herald. We will open-source this verb in the future to allow others to contribute improved versions to us for possible inclusion in future publications. Un-authorized commercial use [...]
Full StoryYAAR! The Pirates of Sanchon, Parte the Thirde
by Tiny Newt [Editor's Note: When last we heard from him, sea captain Tiny Newt had lost one pirate ship and then recruited the presumably fetching Robin Sprocket to crew his next foray into the dangerous waters of Sanchon. . . .--Walker Spaight] Parte the Thirde: In Which We Are Totally Immersed An expert in [...]
Full StorySausalito Smackdown: Millions of Sheep?
by Pat the Rat While Reuben Steiger, who runs Millions of Us, one of the Big Three players in the metaverse-industrial complex, tried to make light of it in a recent blog post, Pat the Rat hears that the recent meeting of the minds between Reuben and Electric Sheep Company CEO Sibley Verbeck was hardly [...]
Full StorySecond Life Client Goes Open Source
Link for new revolutionary development still not now working (UPDATE 10:00 am EST). I’m sure many more tekkie heads will be around to parse the significance of this cyberspace-shattering development, but Phoenix Linden just announced that Linden Lab is open-sourcing the Second Life Client. First question: what will this do to land values? Seriously, this [...]
Full StoryEstate Ban’s Borked – Residents Asked to Cooperate
Do not access certain regions – especially when you can teleport to them by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk For land owners, the ability to ban others from their virtual real estate can be a powerful weapon in the sad, petty wars between rival factions in the metaverse. Earlier today, I was under the mistaken [...]
Full StoryReality is Such a Buzz Kill
by Heartun Breaker, syndicated advice columnist. HEY HEARTUN~ I guess you could say my online fantasy relationship ‘worked’. At first we sent each other fake pictures and revealed fake ages, but as the months went by the confessions came out. I am a 19 year old girl and my online boyfriend (now my ‘RL’ boyfriend) [...]
Full StorySarahLouise Ellison – Post 6 Grrrl
[Editor’s note: SarahLouise Ellison... wow! What can I say? I met Sarah earlier this week when super-photographer Marilyn Murphy invited me to her studio. When I arrived I was speechless - something I know most people wish would happen more often. Sarah was so confident and cool and Marilyn showed why she is - as [...]
Full StoryYAAR! The Pirates of Sanchon, Parte the Second
by Tiny Newt The view from the crow’s nest [Editor's Note: Three cheers for the currents of the Adriatic, which found another champagne bottle clunking against our hull this morning as I walked the decks of the Herald yacht, attempting to keep down last night's caviar. Unfortunately, though, no hair of the dog was to [...]
Full StoryAgeplay or Pageplay? War Vet Camps New Virtual Capitol Hill
“We demand the People’s right to rez!” says demonstrator Rosenthal, complaining about all scripts turned off on the new Capitol Hill sim, preventing creation or operation of objects by non-group members. By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Virtual Governments Sunmicrosystems and their chosen metaversal sherpa Clear Ink opened up an instance of the U.S. House of [...]
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