Quick Start Guide / Basic | Second Life Before you start Registering for and installing Second Life Follow this quick four-step process to register for and install Second Life. 1. Choose an avatar This is how YOU will appear in Second Life. If you change your mind later, don't worry—you can select a different avatar any time you want! 2. Your username is the account name that you use to log in to Second Life. Later, you can also choose a display name that everyone sees in addition to your username. For more information, see Usernames and Display names. 3. Choose a free basic account, or sign up for a premium account for as little as $6 per month. With a premium account, you get your own private Linden Home (if you're at least 18 years old), virtual currency rewards, exclusive virtual goods, and many other benefits. If you choose a basic account now, you can always upgrade to premium membership later. 4. You may need to run the installer program explicitly. Your first steps inworld Logging in Volume and media controls. Your inventory
Top 5 Psychology Articles This Month (Aug ’13) Psychopaths, caffeine, embodied cognition, horrible managers and right-brain and left-brain personalities. Here are the top 5 articles published on PsyBlog in August 2013. 1. According to a survey conducted by psychologist Kevin Dutton—called the Great British Psychopath Survey—here are the top 10 professions with the most psychopaths: CEOLawyer… more—> 2. Some of caffeine’s effects are strange and contradictory. 3. People tend to assume that body language just expresses how we feel inside. 4. Surveys keep telling us that between 65% and 75% of people rate their managers as the worst aspect of their jobs. Is this just baseless moaning, or are they right? 5. There’s a popular assumption that ‘right-brained’ people are more creative, while ‘left-brained’ people are more analytical and logical. Now researchers have done much to debunk this idea by examining the functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans of over 1,000 people… more—> Image credit: opensourceway
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