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If you don’t yet know about Second Life it’s a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 5,219,807 people from around the globe.

The format is very similar to The Sims, but with Second Life you’re actually interacting with real people. Well, at least people hiding behind a second persona. Once you’ve built your character, given him/her a name, you’re then free to enter this brave new world.

You can buy land and build a house, and purchase all other manner of accessories. The commerce is handled with the Linden dollar, which can be converted to US dollars at several online Linden Dollar exchanges.

There’s stories of people getting so immersed in their second life that they are losing touch with reality. There’s husbands and wives having on-line affairs, sometimes with their partners consent.

1,626,207 people have logged in the last 60 days, which would suggest around 4 million have lost interest in the game. Personally, I found it a little sluggish and unappealing, and I guess I’m just not comfortable interacting with people who are hiding behind a mask. And to be honest my first life has enough going on for me not to want to create a second one.

Saying that, though, I do think the concept is a really good idea, and I’m sure many people are having a lot of fun with it. And the fact that it is open for developers to create and sell their content and applications will surely broaden the scope of the game. It’ll certainly be interesting to see the Second Life virtual world in a few years to come.

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That house looks rather plane.

No, a 747 hasn’t crashed on the roof, it’s part of the novel design.

It’s my new perfume, innit, and it smells like shh…

I’m not moving them, honestly.

Hurts your eyes after awhile, I know.

You have to be prepared for school these days…

“Have you ever heard of Youtube?” the interviewer asks this old lady.
Of course she has, you great gallar! She’s into lesbian chatrooms and all sorts of internet shenanigans.

www.oragamiboulder.com

Now, I was sure this site was a hoax when I came across it, but it seems that you can actually buy an “oragami boulder” from the artist through Paypal. What is an oragami boulder? Well it’s a screwed up ball of paper, dumb dumb.

The FAQs are hilarious:

Q: Origami boulder? Aren’t you talking about a wadded up piece of paper?

Now I can never accept credit card directly because I get escorted from bank by big man with gun. I use ATM and drivethrough now so banker doesn’t see me and call police.

One of my inboxes keeps getting inundated with very weird emails from the Canadian Pharmacy and Admin@britney.com
Here’s what I’m talking about:

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago and our nation was the most prosperous in the world, had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world and Mom could stay home to raise the kids and be a homemaker.

OK…

He’s away on business, and his wife is out all day at work, and I’m guessing neither of them has much of a clue of the right way to go about it, any more than I do really.

Go about what?

Jim, you probably don’t have to worry about it either way. I know I shouldn’t bitch, and that this is proof that resources are needed, like volunteers, and that I should volunteer, but I just can’t do it right now. It was just too hard on my heart seeing first hand what goes on. I salute all of the volunteers in rescue groups that do this stuff on a regular basis and make a difference.

I’m not Jim.

And in a strange sense, war is kinda good and peace is kinda bad since war is a sign that the end is near and peace on earth is a sign of the Antichrist. Any Christian who doesn’t agree with all this is deceived at best and a heretic at worst…

War good. Peace bad. The end is near. Cometh the antichrist.

WTF?