I stumbled across Chore Wars this weekend via The Avante Game blog. Chore Wars resembles an old school RPG. The idea is simple, create a character and invite your housemates or family to join your party. Then claim in game experience points and gold for completing real life tasks like cleaning the bathroom.

This is the question posed by Randolph Harrison at Capitalism 2.0. He caused a storm of controversy with this post which suggests it is. He received his share of criticism from Second Lifers, including a raft of people claiming to run profitable businesses.

I have just stumbled across Warren Ellis' thoughts on Second Life entitled Second Life Sketches. They're an interesting read for this non-Second Lifer and have me thinking about test driving the linux client, though I suspect that my video card might not handle it.