After two unseasonably intense but fun 80-hour weeks at work, I'm back to our regular programming. Apologies for the outage; my only hope is that most of you are on well-deserved vacations.
Anyway, two pieces of news from Second Life. The first is that
Ginko Financial, a virtual bank that lured customers with a promise of 44% annualized interest, had experienced a bank run and has shut its doors. The Age has
the story.
On a brighter side, an owner of a private SL island has minted his own
very real coins (pictured above). Via
3pointD.com.