If you’re looking for the perfect antidote for the utterly ridiculous hype around Second Life, here’s a temporary salve. The Register reports that in Second Life, real world organization “World Development Movement” has set up a counter that registers the number of preventable deaths since 2003 — and a child loses his life every 3 seconds. Without sounding overly preachy in light of the holiday season, I think particularly its particularly choice to remind Lindizens, or whatever they’re calling themselves, that life exists beyond the virtual one — and maybe transferring some real world dollars to real world causes is possibly (maybe!) a worthwhile way to spend your time and energy.