Newt Gingrich, on making a Second Life appearance:

Second Life is a more sophisticated extranet... It is so compelling that people actually spend real money to buy real estate in this online reality.

I don't care if it makes me sound more conservative, in a way, than Newt. What exactly makes this "compelling"? People's bizarre willingness to pay for virtual property is what gives us great things like Chinese gold farming and single companies that essentially own a person's entire (virtual) reality.

See here, though, for an interesting article on the way some disabled people have been using it lately, which is actually pretty touching and probably balances out all the unicorn porn.

(via TechPresident)

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