My Five Favorite Things From New World Notes Last Week...

• Masterful machinima: For the love of God, watch this new Lainy Voom soon.
• Live music ranting: Readers praise and prick the best and worst of Second Life's music scene.
• Virtual economy de-Rezzes: Last of the retail-oriented metaverse development companies leaves Second Life?
• Snowglobe victorious: Experimental open source version of Second Life viewer seems to display the world soonest.
• Identity crisis: Is mistrusting anonymous avatars "Discrimination", or common sense (or both)?