IBM's Sam Palmisano, and all the other gray-faced suits who've been bamboozled by their marketing gurus, are no doubt aware: apart from the creative shops selling them expensive corporate islands, the most devoted residents of virtual worlds are, um, quirky. How quirky? Mr Palmisano, meet Cyclosarin, a proudly "fucked-up little cookie," named after the Nazi-era nerve gas, who likes dressing up in Axis uniforms for her appearances in Linden Lab's Second Life.

There are certain mediums where my furry persona has been - or may continue to be clad in military garb from the WWII era. Garb that is Axis in origin. I have a character that wears a uniform as in the above. I have tried to make it clear for quite a long time to those that know me — or those that begin to get to know me — that I am very much into uniforms from a fetish standpoint - and that I am also interested with the WWII era in history in general. [Cyclosarin, explaining her Second Life costume to politically correct critics.]

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