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Introducing the Herald Phunny Pages

The Herald is pleased to announce the appointment of SL resident Brian Mifflin to the cosmically prestigous position of Herald Phunny Page Editor. We will be publishing a weekly comic strip and occasional cartoons with SL subject matter. Contact Brian in game if you wish to be a contributor. (Yes we pay). We begin by [...]

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Teledildonics Comes to SL!!?

Tired of typing with one hand? Well, maybe this is another teledildonics hoax and maybe it isn’t (I’ll ask our ever vigilent readers to do the requisite research) but Slashdong.org claims to have introduced hardware (and requisite interface software) that will maker your SL Sexy Skybox cybering liasons more… well, more vibrant and penetrating. Since [...]

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Post Six Grrrl Elaine Marlowe

The Herald is happy to present to you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Elaine Marlowe! Elaine is a very busy person who recently opened up an all-male mall in the Fundama sim, and evidently understand the pains that all of us guys go through to attempt to find good clothing! I’d like to take a [...]

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The Surrealistic Playground of Brainiac HQ

by Leon Mechanique Where the brains are There’s just something about visiting Deevyde Maelstrom’s Brainiac HQ that really gets the mind working in odd rhythm’s. When the Herald asked me to check out the new games Deevyde released in July, I thought to myself, “That sounds like fun” (and “I could make a few quick [...]

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Photo Essay: A Day at the Races

I suddenly had an urge to see auto racing in SL, and checked my events list on the off chance there might be such, and what do ya know, there was! I dropped in on the Tahiti International Raceway which is floating up above Tahiti Isle. As you might expect, sitting above a Mall is [...]

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WTF? Teen on Teen Grid Suspended (Banned?) for Associating with Adult??

The Second Age blog — our window onto the Teen Grid – has had one of its reporters — named “782″ –banned from the game and the forum for associating with an adult. Which of course leads us to ask: why the fuck was an adult in there? Here is the note that the reporter [...]

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Lindens Poach 2

David Parks Lindens have hired There cofounder Jeffrey Ventrella, and Dave Parks from RIT”s MUPPETS project — an academic/educational/open source version of SL. Zero Grace and the commentors on Cory’s blog are all sprung over the hiring of Ventrella, but I always figure you get more mileage from a mutant undergrad computer graphics d000d, and [...]

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CoryD Comes to Town, Leaves Town

by Prokofy Neva Cory Doctorow‘s book signing took place amid the usual sim-crashing, alphabet-soupy, av-pushing and kewl-kid posturing we’ve come to associate with SL events — the events listing led to the wrong sim–tps led to gnashing one’s teeth outside the right sim…and you really had to *know somebody* — a Linden preferably — to [...]

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Big Babies and Strange Sims

OK, Jack Thompson is turning up his offensive on EA for Sims 2 mods. Earlier we reported his statement in Gamespot that Sims 2 is “worse than hot coffee” and subsequent to that we posted his letter to the attorney at EA (copied to Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman etc). In his latest missive he has [...]

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EA Gets Jacked! Naughty Mod Scandal Goes Nucular [sic]

Ohhh baby, you *know* how much the Herald hates to say we told you so… well ok, we rather like it…but this one is particularly delicious. The Herald has come into possession of the following letter written by anti-video game activist and attorney Jack Thompson to the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary (and VP, but [...]

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