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Celebrate 5 Years of the Herald!
Metaverse to be fairly unbalanced October 26, 2008 by Idoru Wellman, staff writer You still love it, hate it, and wrap your virtual fish in it — there’s just no avoiding the Second Life Herald. Is it any surprise that once again, the SLebrity event of the season is the Herald birthday celebration? As is [...]
Full StoryZito Corleone Resurrection! Mafia Don Lives!!!
Mafioso boss is back. Capisce?Zito’s associate threatens Herald with legal action by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Zito Corleone – still damp from swimming with the fishes in cement overshoes Expect the Nicholas-Corleone gang war to heat up again, now that Mr. Zito Corleone has miraculously been resurrected from an apparently fatal Linden ban. The [...]
Full StoryLab Promotes Reuters Abandoned SL Offices as Hot Spot
Nothing more interesting in Second Life than dead corporate islands by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk no room to showcase residents’ work — Reuters ghost town is featured Linden Lab apparently feels its business interests are best served by highlighting the abandoned “Thomson Reuters” virtual news island as a “Hot Spot” — despite nearly non-existent [...]
Full StoryTakuya Kawashima — Post 6 Guy
[While I was shopping for new ears and a tail at Hybrid more than one year ago, I ran into a noob who seemed pretty lost. He asked me a thousand questions about SL in general and the habit of people wearing cat parts in particular. I took him on an excessive shopping tour and [...]
Full StoryYasha Shirakawa — Post 6 Grrrl
[The first time I saw Yasha I immediately had the perfect location for our photo shoot in mind – Silk Waters Mountain in Orelle, one of the few Japanese sims not mutilated by flickering ads and thus the perfect setting for some anime-style pictures. During the whole photo shoot Yasha kept me entertained by joking [...]
Full StoryTrade Unions International Day of Action in SL
by Sigmund Leominster October 7th, 2008, has been designated as a day of action by international trade union organizations. The World Day for Decent Work is billed as “a broad global mobilisation involving a large number of people and a wide range of activities.” The concept of “decent work” was defined by the International Labour [...]
Full StorySovereign Regime Invades Seduction and Sin
The Vanguard Armed Forces, Stavka Coalition and Chthonic Syndicate attack Adeptus Minor, but encounter an entirely different defender.by Caine Constantine The forces of the Sovereign Regime military alliance invaded last week the home of Adeptus Minor, Seduction and Sin, and after setting for themselves a time limit of a one-hour attack, the fight soon began. [...]
Full StoryGina Glimmer — Post 6 Grrrl
[I met Gina only once before our photo shoot in world, which was when her 'Japan' exhibition opened. Though there was the typical stress of guests coming and going, she took the time to explain me each of her exhibits in detail and answer my many questions. I was surprised and delighted about her patience. [...]
Full StoryMicrosoft’s Mundie: Photosynthetic World OK, User-Created — No Way!
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Speaking at MIT’s Emerging Technology conference, Microsoft egghead Craig Mundie said the 3D spatial web will be photorealistic and made by automatically creating models from pictures taken in the real world — according to Ian Lamont’s report in The Industry Standard. While there are certainly uses for a reality-based [...]
Full StoryPrincess of Yaximixche Opens Palace in Google’s Lively
by Idoru Wellman, Inter-world Royal Cultural Affairs desk Reading between the lines of the latest press release from The Royal Press Office at Gukumatz Palace, Her Royal Highness The Princess of Yaximixche may still be suffering from hardware issues that prevent her from visiting her loyal subjects in SL. However, all is not lost, as [...]
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