The Alphaville Herald

Auntie M’s Secret Linden Diary

by Auntie M Linden, noobie metaverse CEO Greetings secret friends of Linden Lab! Auntie M Linden here. I am starting my second week on the job as CEO of the metaverse and I thought I’d keep a secret diary – this is my very first entry! Today I’m covering the time from the very moment [...]

Red Light Center Exposed — Part 4: Bringing It Home

Red Light Center neko confused by SL interface, pay-as-you-go and lag a concern for GoreansThe Herald explores worlds beyond Second Life by Jessica Holyoke, virtual world explorer I’m standing in a virtual world, populated by people who like virtual sex or at least virtual relationships. The question in my mind is, why aren’t they in [...]

Intellectual Property: A Tiny Affair

Who owns the rights to pictures of Tiny avatars? by Kris Dibou an example of the disputed illustrations As I was working on a story for the Herald (regarding a fellow who was writing a children’s book on heart health) including illustrations make from screenshots of Tiny avatars in Second Life, I received this note [...]

SL and POS Laptops from the Recyling Bin

Cheapskates cheer happy news from Linden Lab by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk According to an e-mail forwarded by an anonymous tipster to the Second Life Herald offices today, Linden staffer Dave Parks has mixed news for the Second Life development community, refusing to support new features on older graphics cards but also saying “cheapskates [...]

Remnant Imperium Rising Privately — To Avoid Copybot

by Vegna Fouroux Overlord LawrenceJoseph Roffo says SL war community would be better off with more combat and less politics Deadlock. I think that pretty much sums up SL combat at the moment. Noob armies are the only forces that are fighting the more established armies (the later shunning each other with claims of cheating, [...]

Red Light Center Exposed — Part 3: Unhitched

Red Light Center leather clad dommes, furries hard to findThe Herald explores worlds beyond Second Life by Jessica Holyoke, virtual world explorer I know everyone has been dying to find out more about the kinkier side of things in Red Light Center. Believe me, so do I. Tracking down the kinkier side of things in [...]

Musings from a Gorean Feminist: Gor is so Stupid

by Jessica Holyoke Readers and people on the street have asked me about how I can reconcile calling myself a feminist and taking part in Gor.  One reader came out and asked how I could condone and engage in rampant rape.   This article is not about that, but sets the tone for later articles.  This [...]

Sex and the SL Mermaid

Geona Graves – Post 6 Robot Grrrrrl

by Alyx Stoklitsky When Pixeleen paid me a random visit recently, we chatted briefly about the usual topics: Woodbury, drama, and Herald. When the subject of the Herald rolled around, she let slip that she was itching for more Mecha in the Post 6 articles – fortunate then, because I knew just the robot for [...]

Of Memes and Men — A Newbie’s Guide to Woodbury University

Welcome to teh Internets by Anise Hankins Woodbury University. Some of you may know it as a school, but there’s a side of Woodbury University that extends far past just that. It’s also a place in the metaverse we know and love as Second Life. It’s an interesting place where both students and visitors alike [...]