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I love London. I’d particularly like to be there today (or tomorrow), when the London Science Museum has a cool-sounding Future Playground showcase of gaming peripherals of the future (described in detail on the BBC’s Web site), as part of its Game On exhibition on the history of computer games. It’s worth pondering what such 3D peripherals — stuff like the Puffer Sphere, on which images can be projected, and an interactive film that’s navigated by song — could do for your virtual world experience as well. The “pneumatically driven” Active Chair, especially, sounds perfect for Second Life.

I love it. Clickable Culture’s Tony Walsh is selling copies of his He Is Just A Rat comic book series (which he wrote and drew) for Linden dollars, the virtual currency of Second Life. The comics are available for L$2,000 exclusively on SLBoutique, one of the major SL shopping Web sites. Tony’s comics aren’t the first real item to be sold for L$ on an SL shopping site, but I like that he’s putting them up for sale there. The ability to make money within the confines of Second Life is regularly trotted out by residents, journalists and Linden Lab, but it seems there might also be potential to make some spare cash on the edges, by marketing real items to a captive virtual audience. Not everyone wants to spend their L$ on prim skirts, after all. Why not provide them with some physical goods they can spend their virtual money on?