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Love Affairs, Death Threats and Scandals, Oh My!

by Pat the RatHerald columnist Pat the Rat (right) with one of his many “sources” Recent comments on the Herald site have inspired the editors to send out little old me, intrepid columnist Pat the Rat, to find out what’s really going on! Keep in mind most mafia folks are tight-lipped about their business (well, [...]

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Hammie Blows Lid off FIC ZombiFICation Center

Free thinking SLers are converted into slaves of the Feted Inner Core (image stolen from NWN) In what is doubtless his finest work to date as a virtual journalist, Hamlet Linden of New World Notes (the House Organ of Linden Lab) broke his leash and gave the hand that feeds him a good chomping by [...]

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The W-Hat Birthday: Cake, Ice Cream and Murdered-Hooker Bloodbath (2/2)

By Neal Stewart It’s the quick and the dead in Second Life. The murdered hooker I found at Baku today is not the murdered hooker she was yesterday. Yesterday’s corpse had character. A furry, she lay there with eyes closed and brows wrenched, as though her eternal sleep was wrought by nightmares. And who could [...]

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The W-Hat Birthday: Cake, Ice Cream and Murdered-Hooker Bloodbath (1/2)

By Neal Stewart 24 hours ago, the W-Hats celebrated their 1-Year Birthday in Second Life at their “W-Hat Super Happy Fun Time Land”. “Cake and ice cream for every girl and boy!”, read the event listing. In classic W-Hat fashion, a host of neon pigs, robots, smoking chimpanzees and wheelchair-bound Mad-Hatters laughed and danced away [...]

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‘R.I.P Ryan Dayton’ – Teenage ‘Air’ Profits (Part 2/2)

By Neal Stewart [Continued from Part I] Here is Part 2 of our interview with Ryan Dayton – the tech-savvy 14-year-old who claims to have made about $1000 US dollars in the 12 months he has been a Second Life resident. Ryan was banned 11 days ago when his mother revealed his real life age [...]

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The Scribes of Gor

Long time Herald readers will recall our coverage of the Gorean community on TSO – In particular our interviews with Mistress Maria and her slave Toy, and our frequent reports from the Black Rose Castle and Mistress Julianna and her slave Mikal. All of these people are now in SL, and I recently ran into [...]

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‘R.I.P Ryan Dayton’ – Teenage ‘Air’ Profits (Part 1/2)

By Neal Stewart I’m sitting at a vacant, shiny blue conference table in a meeting room at the top floor of Dayton Technologies HQ. Through the heavily-tinted windows I can see birds flying above the swaying palm trees outside. On the floor beneath me is the freshly-built coffin of Ryan Dayton himself. It is a [...]

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CLASS: Marketing Basics, April 24, 2pm

Marketing Basics in SL class to be held this Sunday, April 24, at 2pm in a building called Rose House, Georgianna (adjacent to the Spa Gato Condos and a short flight from the Phoenix Hotsprings Spa and Massage Beta Bar.

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RIP Club Elite

Big John Jade hovers over the old Club Elite As reported in the SL Forums, Club Elite finally bit the dust. People will talk about when it began its downhill plunge from the number one club on the grid, but there really is nothing to debate: they jumped the shark when Big John Jade blew [...]

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Free Herald Ads for Educators

The Second Life Herald is happy to announce that we are now offering free advertisements to educators in the pages of the Grid’s most widely read publication. Submit your educational events now!

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