LordGregGreg Exits Emerald Viewer Team

Developer concerned about stealth code in Emerald viewer LordGregGreg announced his departure from the Emerald viewer development team, saying that he is unable to track code added by other developers, and can no longer to provide assurances that Emerald does not contain stealth user-tracking "features". This is the latest in a series of internal Emerald [...]

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Teen Grid To Be Axed – Players Protest, Cheer

Mixed Reactions From the Teen Grid by RC Adamski Philip Linden announced Saturday at the SLCC convention in Boston that sixteen and seventeen year old members of the Teen Grid would be transferred to the Main Grid, and that the younger part of the grid would be turned off in the coming months. In response [...]

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Teen Grid Closing – Philip Linden Red Eyed

Babysitting – a great new game for adult players !!! Philip Linden announced the end of the Teen Grid in his keynote address at the Second Life Community Conference Saturday – a surprise move that left both teen and main grid players deeply concerned at the potential impact on Second Life culture. Philip Linden reminds [...]

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Fake Trial of Century Ends

Bigfoot Convicted — Miss Petunia to Be Sentenced by Herald Reader survey!!! by Journey Yellowlist, Herald Legal Desk Bored office-clones clung to the edges of their coffee-stained chairs, withered doyens of the china-cup crowd shredded lace hankies in anguish, and drunken hillbillies fell off pickle-barrels in the general store in hysterics as Judge I.R. “Hang [...]

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Yiff This Second Life Machinima!

Touching tales of furry love Second Life players’ creativity and core demographic are showcased at the not-safe-for-work www.yiffthis.com site, where romance among gay anthropomorphic woodland avatars is lovingly documented in surprisingly well produced films, complete with money shots featuring the finest in scripted prim dongs. frisky Husky in the hot tub Enticing titles such as [...]

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Qarl Linden Axed – Sculpties Burn In Protest

Sculptie fires rage across the grid, as angry content creators protest the layoff of Qarl Linden – a senior developer deeply involved in various forms of mesh support for the previously prim-based virtual world. It appears that Qarl did not signed the non-disparagement agreement that was a compulsory part of the severance package for the [...]

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A Plea for Help, Answered!

No Good Deed Goeth Unrewarded by Pappy Enoch, Woebegone Felon  Herald readers, there am a God. Jezz am me am fitin’ for our lives in court when I gots me this-here letter from a real angel. It come through the Interweb tubes onto the jail cornputin’ machine. Here it am, edited down a bit because [...]

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Masha Delacourt — Post 6 Grrrrrl

[ Welcome to the post 6 grrl stage.. Masha!! I found her in guess what sim?? MIDIAN! Lick mah balls and enjoy this epicly hot chika.. -Daeynaries Lane ]   For me, it’s all about the story. I’m a storyteller. And roleplay, that means collaborative storytelling. I’ve been a gamer and a geek for a [...]

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It Has To Be Said: No Men Allowed

I have been walking around a few different sims looking for feminist leaning cafes and the like.  When looking for a feminist cafe, more often than not I run into clubs that says in big, huge letters "No Men." And really, those signs are saying "no male typists", not, "no male avatars".  Now obviously, this [...]

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Herald Survives Day in DNS Hell

Domain name denied — trusted servers play SERVFAIL card A pair of rogue domain name servers have been stripped of their authoritative status and permanently banished from the Herald DNS registration after putting the alphavilleherald.com site through a nightmarish ordeal of DNS lies and deception that rendered the newspaper inaccessible to growing numbers of readers [...]

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