Rocking out at One Billion Rising Second Life

DJ's are spinning tunes from house to club to jazz for the full 24 hours, on a spectacular stage. A fantastic turn out, by all accounts, which means the lag is atrocious, but still manageable. Rise up and dance!

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Rant: Second Life’s Revealing “Secret”

As a surprise to no one scientists and people living under a rock, female avatars in Second Life expose more skin than their male counterparts.

“The human tendency to cover up stems from climatic, environmental, physical and cultural constraints,” say the researchers of a Canadian study, “so measuring people’s propensity to reveal skin can be difficult in the real world.” So they donned their lab coats and tripped around an unreal world called Second Life for awhile, scribbling in their virtual notebooks and measuring with their virtual.. skin measurers.

Their exact findings?