He and two partners are chipping in $300 each to purchase prime real estate on Calypso, Project Entropia's virtual world. And then they'll rent out space in these pixilated buildings to players who want to set up their own in-game stores.

Unless they rename this online world to "The Metaverse", I will have nothing to do with it.

"The whole idea is to get people to work for me. I want to be the head honcho," said Quackenbush, who lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, and pulls 10-hour shifts at the local Ford Ranger plant.

s/honcho/idiot/
s/honcho/moron/
s/honcho/dipshit/

... or someting like that. Pick one, or some up with your own!

I think the "sometimes it just takes an idiot" phenomenon that we saw with Napster in the P2P space has potental to create an interesting situation here. Assorted cypherpunks are going to get to say "I told you so" many times if this takes off. The potental for real crime rocks^H^H^H^H^His really high.

Coming soon: The Metaverse