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From the often amusing Matt Mihaly comes this corker of a description about Second Life’s latest OMG METAVERSE!!1! press outing: Second Life, that nefarious den of copyright infringement, nerds having chatsex, and the neverending search for the next trivial public relations opportunity, saw hasn\’e2\’80\’99t-been-

….and everyone gets to be on one. That’s the best explanation I can think of for Next Generation’s not only having Michael “Zonk” Zenke of Slashdot and Morgan “Tee Hee!” Webb of fifteen minutes ago listed as gaming journalists, but appearing next to each other. Tune in to

Scientific American weighs in with this month’s “OMG THE IRS WILL FIND OUT ABOUT MY EPICS” story, this as much other mainstream media interest apparently driven by Second Life’s relentless publicity machine. (The story refers to Second Life and World of Warcraft consistently in that order, for example.

I recently got an email offering $100 to post a guild ad. Unfortunately my price is somewhat higher (note to gold farmers: $100,000 gets you a long, emotional post about how your company is the only ethical choice in responding to poorly designed diku derivative time sink systems! US

The US Army’s new slogan is: ARMY STRONG.\’c2\~ I’m not kidding. See, this is why we’re the bestest country ever. Watch out, you countries that think you’re so smart with your superior command of the English language – since the Soviet Bloc collapsed we totally pwn

Spent a small amount (very small) of time maintaining the List O’ Links. Some new additions, lots of deletions due to inactivity timeouts!

Timothy Burke of Terra Nova weighs in on the “Playing the Boards” discussion with some very interesting insights on how to treat MMO boards as a historical record. Not sure how it applies for actual data-mining (the title of his post) but does give some guidelines in how to