Nicole Simon (who will be in London this week, we’ll see her at the Firefox party) compares how American media and German media talk about Second Life. Her diagnosis? American media doesn’t talk about the sex.

In other Second Life news, GigaOM writes about virtual sweat shops that build and do other things.

Me? I gotta cancel my account. I haven’t been in Second Life since they told my son he wasn’t welcome, but I’ve been paying my monthly fee.

So nice of the Firefox folks to throw us a party in London.

Hmmm, why isn’t this on Upcoming.org yet? That’s how we keep track of all the parties in San Francisco.

UPDATE: oh, it is on Upcoming. It just was too smart and knew I was in Wales so didn’t show me events happening in London.

Heheh.

“I didn’t call him fat, lazy, or stupid,” Loren Feldman says on his video show before telling my commenters to relax. Among other things. Proves that if one insult is worth a link, two insults are worth two. He says he doesn’t care about links. Yeah, me neither. I just search Technorati for all the classic insults and I find stuff like this.

Made Maryam and her brother crack up.

“Who is that guy,” Maryam’s brother asked.

He’s funny, but I’m more partial to Robert Gale’s blog (I spent the afternoon today with Robert). Why? Because instead of posting long, boring videos telling me my videos are long and boring Robert posts videos of ships driving into bridges and other weird and stupid things. My favorite is a video of cars being driven behind a fully-powered 747. Robert says the one that got the most traffic is a video of someone eating a 6-lb burger.

We watched part of the Chelsea/Manchester United game at a local pub (they tied, it seemed everyone was interested in this game, which was billed as one of the biggest soccer, er, football games since the World Cup), while sampling Australian beers, and he told me that his Google ads are bringing in a really good addition to his income (he runs a Web design firm in Newport, Wales).

Gale was wearing a shirt from Threadless, which impressed Maryam (they are having a sale right now and have a bunch of different shirt designs).