Virtually Valuable

While reading the comments on a friend’s blog post about Freebies, I came across the standard comment (and from a Second Life resident no less), which goes along the lines of “it’s all just play clothes on virtual dolls, why do you all give a crap?”. I was going to reply to it but realised [...]

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Second Life Addiction Quiz

A recent commenter on my blog claimed you can’t be addicted to Second Life. I countered with a “oh yes you can be”.
It doesn’t take much of a Google search to find people making the claim that it’s possible (examples of relevant links include this and this and this).
Inspired by my good friend Rrish over [...]

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Second Life as Playground and Work Place: You’re doing it WRONG!

There’s nothing wrong with Second Life (they tell me), it’s just another place to play, or a place to make money, and what’s wrong about that? On the surface of it, nothing. The problem exists because people who were playing or making money in almost any other venture would far quicker realise that it was [...]

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Lucky Chairing

I’m writing this while flicking back and forth from a store which has four lucky chairs, each set to re-choose a letter every 20 or 30 minutes. And I am neck-deep in the complexities of Lucky Chair thoughts. I’m not kidding, this stuff is full of politics, politeness and preferences.
It started properly yesterday when I [...]

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