"The Ginsberg ARTS Center welcomes you to The Grand Gallery.We offer baroque and classical music for your enjoyment, along with sitting areas next to the ornate fireplaces and 4 playable Serendipity Grand Pianos. We're sure it is a place you will visit time and time again. We offer RL paintings, photography, and SL prim sculptures. The Grand Gallery is an elegant environment, with warm atmosphere waiting for you to enjoy. With 11 floors of art (with a total floorplan of over 24000m2), and an amphitheater for conferencing/discussions and readings, we are sure we can satisfy any art hunger your visual cortex may have, so when you think of art; think Smart. Come hangout, we're waiting for you at The Grand Gallery! ;)"

Koordinaten: Ginsberg (142, 156, 47)

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List of museums and galleries in Second Life (From SL History Wiki)

Wikipedia: "The Milgram experiment was a seminal series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience."

SL Future Slon:" Plus One reports that a group in London re-ran the same experiment in a virtual world and the results were eerily similar. The participants showed comparable stress and anxiety levels. Their conclusions?

'Our results show that in spite of the fact that all participants knew for sure that neither the stranger nor the shocks were real, the participants who saw and heard her tended to respond to the situation at the subjective, behavioral and physiological levels as if it were real. This result reopens the door to direct empirical studies of obedience and related extreme social situations, an area of research that is otherwise not open to experimental study for ethical reasons, through the employment of virtual environments.'"

Keira Wilder eröffnet am 9. Februar ihren Jazz Club Once in a Blue Moon auf dem Otaki Gorge-SIM.
SLURL – Otaki Gorge

Wer mal wieder sein Französisch aufpolieren möchte, dürfte sich für den Sim "Paris 1900" interessieren. Noch nicht so ausgefeilt wie der Roma-Sim, aber hübsch gemacht und mal was anderes als schwebende Bungalows und die ewig gleichen Cyber-Clubs.
SLURL - Paris 1900

ZDNET.com: "It may not be official — yet — but thanks to a grass-roots effort, John Edwards has become the first presidential candidate to set-up-shop in Second Life. Jerimee Richir, whose avatar is called Jose Rote, paid-for and developed Edwards' virtual headquarters, and, on a voluntary basis, is managing the in-world campaign."

Freedom Fighters, cyber terrorists or just geeks on LSD?

Thelastboss.com: "As a community grows that large it's normal for the original players to become defensive as the newcomers start changing the way things are run, but in an online world where anything is possible (online embassies, terrorism, borderline genocide, and the infamous dildo storms) the worried veterans have resorted to drastic actions that I didn't even know were possible within the game.
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The first nuke was detonated outside an American Apparel store, with an encore explosion occurring outside a Reebok store. 2-22-07. Never Forget... To Never Play.

Declaring himself as a political officer for the Second Life Liberation Army, Cahill is fighting in hopes that the game's Linden Lab creators will give his army more influence in the future of the game through voting: 'The population of the world should have a say in the running of the world.' He goes on to compare himself to John Adams proving he's just as arrogant as his enemies, but this will still gain his army the attention they long for. "

Video: Second Life Liberation Army attacks Reebok's virtual store in Second Life.

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"The Hummingbird Cafe is proud to present DimiVan Ludwig and Edward Lowell, live, back to back at 4pm SL time

In a rare performance as a featured musician in his own venue, DimiVan Ludwig, aka Chris Harlow, will be coming to us live from his studio in Indianapolis. Taught guitar at an early age by his father, Dimi played professionally for over 20 years before he retired. Tonight Dimi will perform a wide variety of music showcasing his talent on acoustic guitar and proving once again "it's those little things...."

Edward Lowell, one of the members of the infamous ChaChaCha Boys Band of Indy Jam fame, has been entertaining full houses with his soothing romantic voice, original songs, and wicked wit. Like Dimi, Ed has come to SL from another internet music program and is enjoying exploring the music possiblities of SL.

Hosted by Edward Lowell in the intimate club setting of The Hummingbird Cafe on the beautiful musical"