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Here Come da Judges: Second Life Superior Court is Now in Session
We were hoping to see experiments like this. Two law school students, Judge Mason and Judge Churchill (Churchill is the Herald alumnus who wrote about the ESRB under the pseudonym “J”), have opened a court in second life. The idea is that residents may take disputes to the court to be settled according to The [...]
Full StorySlash Dotted Yet Again
The leaked pages from the forthcoming Herald potboiler have yielded yet another Slash Dotting and discussion of the leading journalists of the metaverse: me and Walker. Some comments are not so kind: “typical ignorant stuckup journalist”. Another suggests I should log into Second Life where I would learn that everyone is 25 or older. Riiiiiight. [...]
Full StoryAs Plague Tears through WoW, we wonder: Can it happen here?
For those of you who are hermetically sealed in your own little game, you may not have heard that there is a plauge tearing through Wow. As discussed on Alice, Clickable Culture, Terra Nova, and elsewhere, the facts as originally reported in Shacknews Forums, are these: Blizzard adds in a new instance, Zul’Gurub. Inside is [...]
Full StoryYellow Journalists Hard at Work on Potboiler
by Pat the Rat Well kids, perhaps you often wonder, as I do, just how Herald editors Walker and Uri are able to support their habits. First, there is Walker, with his taste for pencil thin cuban cigars and first edition copies of subversive Estonian literature. Then there is Uri, burning gallons of diesel fuel [...]
Full StoryTen Minutes Before the Mast: Second Life Sailing Federation lays down the law
by Budka Groshomme In an effort to bring some measure of control to what was rapidly becoming a chaotic arena of competitive sailboat racing, the Second Life Sailing Federation (SLSF) has adopted parts of sailing’s official Right of Way (ROW) rules. The ROW rules dictate that, based on the wind and your heading, you can’t [...]
Full StoryGet Thee to the Library!
Second Life resident Wandering Yaffle’s new library in the Furness sim truly deserves a better headline pun than that, but such are the deadline pressures of life at the Herald that it was all we could come up with on short notice. To really do the thing justice, you’ll have to get your virtual asses [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl: Haver Cole
The Herald is happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Haver Cole! Haver absolutely loves Primtionary, nudity, and anything created by Starley Therian, happens to be the only Haver in SecondLife, and is seemingly quite attracted to brilliance. My thanks go out to Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players Magazine for these wonderful [...]
Full StoryCyber-Prostitutes Discover eBay?
Seems like oh so many centuries ago when the Herald introduced the world to cyberprostitutes and virtual sex slaves, including of course SL’s Sasami Wishbringer — who roleplayed as a biologically 8 year old girl/sex slave for hire. Now the UK newspaper The Guardian is reporting a World of Warcraft Night Elf was selling her(?) [...]
Full StoryKremlinden Lab Rejects User Bill of Rights
In a disappointing ruling by Chairman Rosedale and Kremlinden Lab, a popular user-initiated proposal to institutionalize avatar rights has been rejected without credible justification. The proposal, called for the following rights: freedom of speechfreedom of expression in buildsfreedom of pressfreedom to bear arms in combat areasthe right to know charges against oneselfthe right to self-representation [...]
Full StoryGREAT BUILDERS OF SL: PART 2: GURGON GRUMBY, A MAN AND HIS DOG
GURGON AND BETA In this article, the Herald continues its series of interviews with great builders of SL (actually we didn’t know there was a series, but what the hey — I guess there is now!). In the last interview we talked to Yadni Monde, in this interview Monsterrat Snakeankle speaks with his protege Gurgon [...]
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