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Animal Auctioning
Technical issues kept me from posting this sooner, but it wouldn’t be the Herald without a bulletin on the auction market that’s sprung up for stuff found in the Nintendo DS massively wifi-player game Animal Crossing. Thanks to a Faithful Reader for alerting us to NookBay.com where all things Animal Crossing can be bought and [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl MissChivous Craven
I’m extremely proud to present to you this week’s Post Six Grrrl (and the first of these in a while). MissChivous Craven is a DJ here in SecondLife who loves metal music! Special thanks to Daphne Molinari for taking up the torch of the Post Six Grrrls after our previous photographer dropped the ball and [...]
Full StoryEnough about You, Let’s Talk about Me!
TSO refugees may remember Realsimsonline.com, which was a site that allowed TSO denizens to post their real life information (now known as first life information). Although supposedly banned by EA, the site was very popular, and there were thousands of users that posted their information there. Now Second Life has a similar option — www.sl.me.com [...]
Full StoryMafia Boss Torches Red Dragon Casino
by Dirk Diggler In a textbook case of how partnerships with the Mafia can go horribly wrong, Drax Lemieux’s Red Dragon Club & Casino was attacked at roughly 9:30pm game time Sunday night. Details of the attack are still sketchy, but it would appear that Sim Mafia Boss Marsellus Wallace was the purported attacker. When [...]
Full StoryInfamous SL Gangster Weds in Lavish Wedding
by Pat the Rat Infamous Second Life Gangster, but self-described "businessman," Marsellus Wallace, wed Mackenzie Draper today in a lavish ceremony on the island of Cameo. In attendence were many of Mr. Wallace’s "business associates" as well as some of the underworld associates of the former Ms. Draper (indeed, she was given away by Galante [...]
Full StoryBUY BUY BUY!!! Uber-Authors’ Doomsday Book Debuts on Amazon.com
Woot! If you didn’t believe it before, now you can actually feast your eyes: The Doomsday book recently penned by uber-authors Peter Ludlow and Mark Wallace in a flurry of champagne, clattering typewriter keys and cigar smoke is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com. For those who aren’t already aware, the book recounts the adventures [...]
Full StoryThe Guardian Covers Virtual Journalists Covering Second Life
I meant to blog this much earlier, but..what can I say… I’m irresponsible. Not so the most rightous Aleks Krotoski, who gives her readers in the UK publication The Guardian a peak into the stories that percolate in those august virtual media outlets, The Second Life Herald and Clickable Culture. In her recent piece, Aleks [...]
Full StoryThis is oh so wrong: the sexy machinima of Warcraft!
I thought machinima had probed the limits of my psyche with the Ed Wood film festival in Second Life. But no, now we have *this*… this… well it’s best if you just look.
Full StoryYour Imagination, but now it’s Activeworld’s: Stagecoach Island Failure has Content Contributors Crying Fowl
Tony Walsh (aka Zero Grace) has a superb article on the failure of the Stage Coach Island Project, that a group of Second Life residents undertook for Well’s Fargo Corp. Not only has Wells Fargo moved the project out of Second Life and into Activeworlds, but it has taken a lot of SL resident work [...]
Full StoryPlay Money No More: Non-Virtual Goods to Sell for Linden Bux
Cutting out the middleman, SLBoutique founder FlipperPA Peregrine announced at Saturday’s Democracy Island event that his virtual commerce site would soon begin accepting Linden dollars in exchange for tangible real-world goods. Read more at the Second Life Future Salon blog where we heard the news. Then call your accountant.
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