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Well, this is just fine and dandy, now isn’t it? I finally get around to re-activating my Second Life account a couple days ago, after having it be inactive for months and months after that hacking incident last year, and what’s one of the first things that I run into? This article: IP’s Brave New World. It’s a really fascinating discussion about how Intellectual Property law (my personal area of interest) and the realities of a virtual world where people can create their own content (such as Second Life) intersect, and just as fascinating, how some real-life lawyers are offering their services in-world, resolving disputes that would be too complex to resolve outside of it. Fascinating stuff, and well worth a read, if only because it’s one of the few articles about Second Life that doesn’t wax rhapsodic about how to make money in the game, or how to have virtual sex with furries.
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So, among the gifts I got myself for my birthday this past month, were a shiny, pretty, gorgeous, sexy little Nintendo DS Lite. The precious. And, let’s avoid any PSP/DS debates here, okay? My choices were between barely affording a PSP, with no games (plus, no real games that interest me), no extra memory card, no nothing, or buying a DS, plus 3 games (Animal Crossing: Wild World, New Super Mario Brothers, and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney), plus screen protectors, extra accesories, and lots of neat other things. Not to mention that if I want to watch movies on the go, or listen to music, I already have Glitch and the iPod.

So, anyway, one of the games I have for the DS is Animal Crossing: Wild World. If you own it already, then you know that you can visit other folks’ towns using the DS’ built-in WiFi. So, this is my open invite to my blog readers: come, visit L33tTown! If you’ve got a DS, the game, and access to a WiFi connection, just leave me a note in the comments below on a good time for me to leave my gates open, and you can drop right in. I’ve got all the fruits already (thanks, Penguin and Absu!), so if you don’t have them all yet, now’s your chance. Here’s the info:

Name: Katsu
Town Name: L33tTown
Friend Code: 4982-9443-3335
Fruits: All of them! Woot!

Hope to see at least a couple of you in there.
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