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The Reuters news agency has been using “Second Life” as the location in the date line of stories about the online, virtual world. As in:

Ginko Financial - Pioneer or Pyramid?
Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:10pm PDT

By Adam Reuters

SECOND LIFE, Oct 15 (Reuters) — If you make a 44 percent annual return in the real world it means you’re a genius hedge fund manager, or maybe Warren Buffett. In Second Life it means that you’re an account holder at Ginko Financial – unregulated, unaudited, and a magnet for controversy.

It’s an interesting meld of the cyber and real worlds.