Join Tom and Scott as they discuss this: Spooky, secretive, titanic US military contractor SAIC has bought out Forterra, a company that makes virtual worlds for government agencies. I sat on a panel at an SAIC event on games and public diplomacy a few years back that turned out to be filled with CIA and other spooks who wanted to know if Al Qaeda was recruiting in World of Warcraft. Wonder what they’re going to do with World of Fedcraft?
And, we get a great reader submission from Giang Hoang, about how Data protected her at School. 
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Hey Tom and Scott,
I was listening to episode 36 about Virtual Worlds and thought I would point you to the open source project OpenSim which has some big backing including that little company called http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page
The server is compatible with the Second Life client and I’ve used it for teaching undergraduate courses in the design of virtual worlds.
If you want to see it in action, the best place to go is the OSGrid which is not an individual virtual world but (as the name suggests) a grid of virtual worlds.
Cool (and geeky) stuff.
Cheers,
Ken (yeah, the guy that won Scott’s Troll Print giveaway)
Oh poop. Typo…. “that little company called International Business Machines” is what I meant to write there….