[Fashion Expert Strawbery Singh: Ethnicity in Second Life]

Just as the guys saying there isn't enough for them .. people make what they want to make. It's a variation on the saying, "Be the change you want to see in the world" .. in other words, learn to create, or alternately, support and encourage someone who wants to make what you want to see.

[Linden Lab's New CEO]

Holo, I agree. For some, it's valid as a game (tho I'd like to know what those who think it a game consider as the goal).

For a great many of us, SL is the wave of the future --  those of us who have the "view of Second Life as a cybercultural environment and microcosm of civilized society"

To have any less vision than that is to shortchange not only the residents and Linden Labs, but the loss of SL being an ongoing part of the future, relegating SL to a footnote in Cyber-societal history.

[Viewer 2.3 Beta Available Today With Display Names and More]

Hey, y'all! It's too late now, but I can't help but remember that LL developed "Display names" because so many stopped on choosing a name ... I still think it would have been simpler if LL had just made all Surnames available at signup, instead of only batches of the surnames. I have already found confusion in my Friends list .. omg ... big confusion. Who is who, now? and who will they be tomorrow? Sheeesh ...

On of the big draws was being able to come up with a first and last name that was uniquely MINE, from the surnames given.

*sigh*