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Get A Life

Get A Life is the most popular and widely syndicated advice column in Second Life — known for Heartun Breaker’s down to earth common sense and witty reason. by Heartun Breaker, syndicated advice columnist.Heartun Breaker is here to help HEY HEARTUN: I’m new to Second Life but not to Role Playing. I’ve heard about Gor, [...]

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LL Confirms Private Island Price Hikes

By Prokofy Neva In an announcement on the Official Blog this evening at 6:02 PM SLT, Linden Lab confirmed recent rumours reported by the Herald of island price hikes. New islands purchased after November 1 will cost $1675; the tier on them will cost $295. Mainland sims and previously-owned island sims will be grandfathered with [...]

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FM Radio – Sponsored by Astroid Blue’s Space Station Casino

Hot country fried SL ads and no static at all by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk SL radio honcho Darryl Daniel Rhett Akins is singing “Driving My Life Away” on SLKY – a Second Life-oriented “hot country hits” audio stream that promises the surreal combination of unrequited love songs and ads for SL businesses such [...]

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Caliah Lyon – Post 6 Grrrl

[Editor’s note: Marilyn Murphy is the artistic vision and photographer behind Players, SL’s in-world erotica magazine. I was lucky to chat with her thursday at the Herald birthday bash- and even more lucky to be introduced to the subject of Marilyn's latest photo shoot. I'm sure our readers will be thrilled to meet this week's [...]

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LL Hires Press Flak

By Prokofy Neva, News Desk Jebus, while the Herald reporters were off boozing it up in Athabasca right after the game erm platform uh metaversal accessorator was down for 3 days a few weeks ago, Linden Lab went and hired a PR flak! It’s now confirmed from the Herald’s previous report that the flaksters are [...]

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Reuters SL Newsfeed Down – 5 Hours and Counting

Reuters SL newswire operation achieves LL levels of reliability by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk no in-world Reuters news hud for you – here’s why Here at the Herald, we depend on the mojo wire to alert us to breaking news – but the office staff noticed a curious silence when they checked Reuters Second [...]

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Multi-Media Luv

Destroy Television and Pixeleen Mistral dating by Denise Levertov, Gossip QueenPixeleen and Destroy – special friends Which two avatars where caught in a steamy embrace at last night’s Herald Birthday party? None other than Pixeleen Mistral and and the Electric Koolade Sheep girl-about-town, Destroy Television! Wowzers!!! Destroy crashed the SL media scene this week and [...]

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LL Taps Bandwidth Brakes – May Ask Residents to Pay for Help

Can’t the Lab print and sell L$s fast enough? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk running on empty? Wednesday’s metaverse upgrade caused widespread mirth as residents across the grid chuckled and reported high packet loss. Liana Linden thanked everyone for their support and said, “We are working on this issue”. Usually reliable sources informed the [...]

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Fall Boat Show

a MSM-style analysis-free, lightly edited press release – enjoy! scary monsters (and super creeps) like Flying Tako sailboats The Second Life Sailing Federation’s web site reports that a fall boat show is running until October 31st at the Sanchon Sailing Center. Quoting from the site, “the boat show lives on as a pure exhibition of [...]

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Sony Media Monorail Derailed!

Plywood pileup – lone devolutionist claims responsibility by Txema Nuvolari ALEXANDER releases Devo tune on Sony – monorail cars jam On the night of Sunday October 22th 2006, Monorail transportation on Sony´s Media Island was artistically sabotaged by an avatar who´s identity will be presented here as “Alexander”. By building up huge wooden boxes, Alexander [...]

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