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...Created by Linden Lab in 2003, Second Life is a “3-D online digital world imagined, created, and owned by its residents” that is free to join. Its roughly five million users create avatars, which are virtual character representations of themselves that can be anything from men and women to butterflies. Second Life is not a game so much as it is an “online community” because there is no specific goal or winner. Users are able to interact, create buildings, and buy land on the Second Life globe...
...Business Week profiled Anshe Chung, a Second Life user who had made $250,000 USD in virtual Linden Dollars. Chung could exchange this for American dollars on the LindeX Currency Exchange that Linden Lab operates through PayPal. Such singular concern for profit does not make Second Life a good teaching tool, even though companies have claimed to use it as such. In an effort to teach young people how to manage money, Wells Fargo & Co. created an amusement park island on Second Life in 2005 where users could withdraw money from ATMs. Underlying this supposedly instructive intent, was, of course...
...have social responsibilities or consequences, and that this extreme valuation of money is merely part of the fun. While Second Life is indeed unreality, it also represents a psychological intersection between reality and fiction. In an interview with CNN earlier this year, Philip Rosendale, founder and CEO of Linden Lab, discussed what he called Second Life’s “plasticity.” He said, “The world in Second Life is so easy to change. It is so plastic that it’s addictive. It’s infectious. You come...
...serial number that is stamped into the weapon in three places. Filing serial numbers off guns doesn't obliterate them, however - they are deeply impressed into the steel and can be raised with an acid bath. But the agents didn't have to send the guns to the lab to find their origin, because they found the receipt...
...David Mou ’08 said that he found the presentation interesting. “I’m taking a class on sleep right now. So [the discussion] was really helpful,” he said. As he rushed out the door to get to lab on time, he added that he’d try to follow Lockley’s advice...