Six Swell Sick Sim Sex Sites

Our pal at Terra Nova, Ren Renolds, was kind enought to collate the new virtual platforms that are dedicated to cyber.  Yowzers, I’m begining to lose count!  But for the record we have… Heavenly Bodies Naughty America: The Game Rapture Online Red Light District Spend the Night 3Feelonline Sociolotron (actually already out of Beta) And [...]

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Avatar of the Year, Second Place: Anshe Chung

Second place in the Herald’s coveted Avatar of the Year award traditionally goes to the avi who has had the most impact on the virtual world’s economic scene. Last year’s winner, Sir/Father Callahan, was a master of the simolean trade in TSO, as well as a collector of rare cannons and press secretary for the [...]

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MTV Hosts Nutty Wacky Avi Contest. Joy.

According to a post by Glitchy Gumshoe on the SL Future Salon site, MTV will be “filming’ an in game fashion shoot, and they are soliciting pics of interesting — nay “craziest looking” avatars. Well now. Zero Grace is decidedly unimpressed by this turn of events, but he is a crotchety old man. We, on [...]

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Second Life Running on Linux?

Acording to a comment he posted on Boing Boing, this week Cory Linden is going to be at the Chaos Computer ClubCon (ah ok, so now it is upscale and is called the Chaos Communication Congress) in Berlin. Plus he promises to be giving a public demo of the SL client running on Linux. That [...]

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Avatar of the Year, Third Place: Plastic Duck

The Herald Brain Trust was working overtime, struggling with the very difficult decision of who should be third place in the coveted SL Herald Avatar of the Year Award (the award given to those avatars who change the news the most, for better or for worse). Last year the third place winners were Mr. President [...]

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Last Call: Asheron’s Call II to Close Doors on Dec. 30

Clive Thompson has a good article in Wired on the impending close of Asheron’s Call II. It’s a tough business, what can I say.

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Are You Ready for the Avi of the Year Awards?

Herald Staffer with One of the Avatar of the Year Trophies! Once again, boys and girls, it’s time for the most eagerly awaited event of the virtual journalistic year: the Second Life Herald’s Second Annual Avatar of the Year Awards. Each year, the Herald brings you the three avatars who have had the most impact [...]

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Good Riddance: SL Says Goodbye to Dwelloper Awards

Uri and Prok do Some Last Minute Christmas Camping by Dow Jonas With the advent of camp chairs in the last month, Robin Linden’s announcement of the end of the Developer Incentive Awards (DIA), or the “Dwelloper Awards,” as they were dubbed, came as no surprise to most of the hundred-odd recipients of the cash [...]

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Post Six Grrrl Sibele Ingmann

The Herald is very happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Sibele Ingmann! Sibele was introduced to SecondLife by the famous designer treebee Withnail, and loves the color pink and elephants! Our thanks to Heart Wishbringer and Joe Stravinsky for photographing and submitting this Post Six Grrrl.

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Sex Please. It’s for the Cause of JOURNALISM

MMorgy.com, displaying their tradition of fully immersive cyber-journalism is asking for Second Life residents to cyber with them so that they can write an informed story about the experience. Crimey guys, if you can’t find a date in SL you have got freaking problems!

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