Saw a mention of Second Life in the London Paper last week. It was entirely devoid of any real content and completely irrelevant to what we’re doing here, but I’m going to report on it anyway, because it generated the largest number (4) of enquiries from friends about Second Life so far…

It was called “How to Bag a Geek” and featured a reporter going to three events to attempt to chat up “geeks” of varying descriptions.

One of these categories was “science geek”. Science has always been cool, geeks definitely are now, so I have good news for Second Lifers: the chosen “science geek” event was the Dana Centre event about virtual worlds.

Anyway, it seems that not all scientists are quite so pleased at the association. After the discussion, our intrepid reporter approached a “fit geek” with the chat-up line “So are you on Second Life?”.

It was unsuccessful.

Read the full story here, although I take no responsibility for any advice gleaned from an article which does not know the difference between a geek and a nerd…