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There She Goes
It happens to the best of us: the lure of a steady paycheck overcomes the strong desire to sit at a desk in our apartments all day staring into a computer screen (not surprisingly). So it is that Terra Nova‘s Betsy Book has been snapped up by the virtual world of There.com, which bills itself [...]
Full StoryFICkle Forum ResMods: Part II
As I posted earlier, there was an ignored thread in the general forum posted about this evening’s Machinima festival, encouraging people to attend. An hour after the story was posted here on the Herald, Jeska Linden herself moved the thread to the proper forum. Thank you, Jeska. In the issue of balance, though, I find [...]
Full StoryTonight: Machinimists Tinker in SL
Well, it won’t be Cannes, but tonight will see BuhBuhCuh Fairchild hosting a Second Life machinima festival featuring five films created by residents within the world. The films are a mix of genres, from the narrative to educational travelogues/ (and hopefully at least one with guns). Admission’s free, and the event starts at 7pm Linden [...]
Full StoryConfessions of a Gorean Slave, Part 2
In our last installment, humdog took us from her introduction to Gor to her collaring. In part two, she talks in more detail about her Master, why she was so taken with him, and the psychological devices he uses to control her. –Uri Diary of a Goran Slave, Part 2 by Humdog A kol’lar is [...]
Full Story“Ship-to-Ship” Services Now Available
The Herald staff had wanted more time to study the deep ramifications of this story, but now that Kotaku is reporting on sexual services available in EVE Online, it was clear that an editorial decision needed to be made. Kotaku reports on a chat-based cybersex service that has made its way into EVE. But if [...]
Full StoryIn Which I Happen to Invent Web 3-point-D
Perhaps because I feel for the most part that “Web 2.0” is just a fancy term for the march of Web-related progress, I don’t use the phrase all that much. But its particular rhythm has stuck in my brain, and now that we’ve begun talking about places like Second Life as part of a possible [...]
Full StoryFirst Cast of SecondCast Catches a Few FIC
SL resident Johnny Ming’s new Second Life podcast site, SecondCast.com, went “live” today with a podcast featuring four of Second Life’s famous Feted Inner Core — including yours truly, for some reason.
Full StoryIt All Happened at the Happening
Make magazine’s Phillip Torrone prepares to probe the virtual world I was skeptical about it when I first heard the description, but Second Life did indeed meet and mingle with the massively multiplayer offline universe often known as First Life last night. It all happened at The Happening, “an extraordinary audio/visual benefit experience” that went [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl Tazzie Tuque
We at the Herald are very proud to announce this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Tazzie Tuque! Tazzie was referred to the Post SIx Grrrl staff by former Post Six Grrrl Queenie Extraordinaire, and DJs regularly at two of SecondLife’s more popular clubs! Our thanks goes, as always, to Daphne Molinari, creator of Daphne’s Delights and [...]
Full StoryReal-World Music Festival to Fund SL Events
The Foundation For Rich Content — which we covered when it started up last year — is now inviting Second Life users to an Alabama of the mind. The FFRC, which provides private grants to SL residents to help fund “events and projects that enrich the cultural scene of Second Life,” recently teamed up with [...]
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