Observant SLI reader Matt Bowerman spotted the latest issue of Good Magazine on the stands in Austin Texas, sporting a cover story on Second Life. Unfortunately, the story chronicles one apparently sex-obsessed writer's wanderings and musings on his lack of a virtual penis. [Caution - contains a virtual penis image]
People who are familiar with Second Life will immediately find author Morgan Clendaniel's narrative littered with inaccuracies, and misleading turns of phrase. Heck, there are five assorted penis references by the time you get to the bottom of the second paragraph, where the author felt the need to violate the gambling ban to bankroll himself some genitalia.
Bolstering the "one man's search for a penis" narrative, is some supporting material and research. The piece aspires to become balanced, and it comes close, but seems to fall short of the mark and finishes with penises again. It's obvious that Clendaniel didn't have a great time. "Something fun and social must be happening in Second Life," he writes, "but it certainly isn't happening where I am."
Take a look. Tell us what your own thoughts are.
1. As Jacek said(http://tinyurl.com/3avlb5), Bowerman, basically, wrote the same thing as one of Wired's SL reviews. Unfortunate article in an otherwise interesting magazine.
Though, in his defense, I don't think that this article was written after the gambling ban was put in place. His avatar was born in March, so if that may have been when he did the "research" for this.
Posted at 10:25PM on Oct 21st 2007 by Alexander Lapointe