New Year’s in Second Life
So, what are you doing for New Year’s? Are you going out partying with friends? Are you setting off fireworks, or travelling to NYC to watch the ball drop? Or are you staying at home, feebly shaking your fist at the outside world in defiance, wishing you could call the cops on your neighbors even though it’s only 9PM but they’re playing that godawful reggaeton and you hate it and its making the windows in your house vibrate I mean who actually listens to that shit masquerading as music, someone should make some sort of law, surely the First Ammendment never took reggaeton into consideration, and even if it was good music, who can possibly enjoy it at that kind of volume anyway, I mean, really?
Yeah, right now it’s looking like that last option for me. So, if you’re spending the night inside anyway, might as well jack into Second Life and spend it with the rest of the anti-social agoraphobic geek contingent, no? Go check out Eric Rice’s blog for the details on his big Second Life Live New Year’s Broadcast/Podcast/Virtual Worldcast. I just might be there, so that should be good enough for you to be there too. 
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January 12th, 2006 at 10:43 am
[...] Props to the Second Life guys and gals, they’ve made the closest thing to a real Snow Crash-esque metaverse we’re likely to see in a good long while. Proof? Besides things like virtual book signings (I’ll treasure my signed in-world copy of Cory’s book forever, or until a server wipe deletes it!), and rockin’ New Year’s parties, they’re being visited by some of the real luminaries of the Free Culture movement. Case in point: Lawrence Lessig, brilliant lawyer and author of such books as Code and other laws of cyberspace, and Free Culture, will be dropping by Second Life next Wednesday, January 18th. He’ll be interviewed and will sign virtual copies of Free Culture (I’m getting mine ASAP), should be really interesting. Lawrence is the man who helped advise the Second Life guys on making all the user-created content inside of Second Life belong to the users themselves, a first in online games. [...]