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Location: Third World (204,58,21)
A tropical sim, simple and quiet. One corner campfire has become one of the places for October Undead & October Gypsies to hang out, hear stories & old time radio, tell stories and have events.

Location: Volcano Cay (164,168,23)
An amazing build. *This* is the kind of thing that Second Life was made for. This ship has class and style.

Location: Windermere (224,194,33)
This library is a great one: it only contains all-original works by Second Life folks! The Blue Angel has weekly poetry jams and story nights, and all of them are archived into the volumes in their library: Bedtime Stories and Poetry Volumes. Really cool. Fun exporation both in 3D and in the realms of creative writers.
A nice big lobby and three floors of office space for the CNET folks, plus an ampitheater on the 4th floor. Not a bad ad-hoc gethering place. Every so often CNET holds an event or two there.
Ahhhhrr! If ye like Tiki's and Pirates, and want a cozy place to meet a few friends, try The Drunken Parrot Pub.
You'll enjoy the aquarium and the dead bartender. Oh, and when I visited, there was also a free-to-copy dead parrot. All courtesy of Wilco Jessop, builder and funmeister.