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Bringing the Fight Against Cancer to Second Life
The New York Times has an article today about the Second Life Relay for Life that’s being put together by Jade Lily and SnoopyBROWN Zamboni to benefit the American Cancer Society. The benefit is a week away, August 27-28, so save the date.
Full StoryInvasion of the Virtual Body Snatchers
Most sorry for the delay in reporting this, but I was up at the Herald duck blind in Canada when the story broke and only just found it. Many of you will recall Chipsen Queso’s highly positive review of Asri Falcone’s fashion show. Now it seems that her account was hijacked and another mystery typist [...]
Full StoryBig Brother Linden is Watching You!
Big Brother — more demonic and horrifying than even Orwell could have imagnied. (pic stolen from Pirate Cotton’s site) There’s been some buzz on the forums lately about the extent to which the Lindens monitor convos in SL. I’ve always just assumed that in-game communications are unsafe, but perhaps that is a bit of paranoia [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl: Kirsten Mullen
The Herald is happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Kirsten Mullen! Kirsten is a pretty recent SecondLife addict who works in the SL tattoo business and loves to go around to clubs, especially the new Club Fantasy. My thanks go out to Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players Magazine for these wonderful [...]
Full StoryBad Bots! Computer characters mugged in virtual crime spree
There is a really interesting article in New Scientist about a guy in Japan using bots to mug other players on Lineage II and then of course selling the loot for RL currency. The culprit running the bots — a Chinese exchange student — was arrested. By RL Police. Cool.
Full StoryText Rulez!
Richard Bartle paid a visit to the SL Future Salon last week, under the sponsorship of Salon Host with the Most, SNOOPYBrown Zamboni, and of course the usual salonistas. I was busy fishing for walleyes at the Herald hunting retreat in northern Minnesota, but there is a transcript on Terra Nova, and a review by [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl Susan Deckard
The Herald is happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Susan Deckard! Susan works hard as the manager of the ManHunt Mall, which is owned by another recent Post Six Grrrl, Elaine Marlowe. My thanks go out to Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players Magazine for these wonderful pictures and those of all [...]
Full StoryProtest Continues as Former Gigas Officer Removed from Ouranos. By Lindens.
by Prokofy Neva Hank Ramos, a former GIGAS Group mall investor battling other GIGAS officers in a dispute that led to Linden Lab’s seizure of their land, continued his protest in the Ahern Welcome Area last night about a new development in his land-grab saga — his summary removal from the officers of Ouranos group, [...]
Full StoryPermabanned??? Did Xaph get the Moe Linden Special?
Permabanned? Virtual Brutus, Xaphon Mendicant, in Happier Times According to a number of reliable sources, Xaphon Mendicant has been either banned or permabanned for his role in the betrayal of the Space Monkey Corporation and the theft/liberation of its land in Jessie. Since his actions only involved using his privileges as a group officer to [...]
Full StorySleeze! Sleezywood Contest Brings out Dregs of SL Society
by Trailer Park Prok Sleezywood, a highly-popular building contest for the trailer trash set, opened to wild applause yesterday at high noon game-time for judging. Clutching clipboards, hard-hatted Jamie Otis and mush Caldera, owners of the private island and sponsors of the contest, announced winners (see below) and started shopping car races by 3:00 p.m. [...]
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