Article: Second Life attendees gather in real world.

Byline: Kara Andrade

Aug. 28--CHICAGO -- Men wearing pink wigs and fishnet stockings, people dressed like red devils, vampires and fairies, and six-foot-tall furry dogs all showed that the real world could be just as unreal as the virtual one during the Second Life masquerade ball -- part of the popular site's third annual Community Convention this past weekend.

The masquerade ball wrapped up the volunteer-run convention, which brought together 825 people, many of whom had only met in the virtual, 3-D world of Second Life. Boasting more than 9 million registered users on its Web site, San Francisco-based Linden Lab, which created Second Life, did not put ...

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