I think it's a classic case of laser-disc player. The early adopters in this case have asperger's. Of course, a more usable metaverse built on the premises of SL is totally coming out in three years and you will do everything through it. They just didn't get there with the first one. Already kids are loving MTV's Virtual Laguna Beach, which should horrify us much more than having to pay for your dong. Cause even though I agree it's lame for the uninitiated, we could do way worse than an open-source play-space with its own economy. What's too bad is that it might have been really interesting to watch the economy develop and then see how they would need to regulate it internally. But alas, we do not all have asperger's.