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Entropia is in the Guinness Book of World Records again! The virtual asteroid you’ve heard so much about finally gets its due! For the full release go here. And, I recommend reading the boilerplate about the Guinness Book of World Records. Started by Sir Hugh Beaver in 1951 when grousing about plover…

GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN–(Marketwire - September 18, 2007) - Entropia Universe, the leading virtual worlds platform for interactive entertainment, community building and e-commerce using a real cash economy, boasts the Most Valuable Virtual Items and Real Estate of all the virtual worlds. The new 2008 Guinness World Records book features Club NEVERDIE, an asteroid space resort bought for $100,000 USD by famous gamer Jon NEVERDIE Jacobs as “The Most Expensive Virtual Object.” The asteroid space resort which boasts a nightclub, shopping mall, 1000 apartment complexes, commercial space ship docking, mega sports stadium, and hunting and mining biodomes is the highest grossing privately owned virtual event venue online, estimated to be worth in excess of $1 Million USD if ever placed back on the market.

“The inclusion of the space resort and Entropia Universe in the Guinness World Records book confirms the viability of our real cash economy,” says Marco Behrmann, Chief Information Officer at MindArk PE AB, the development company behind Entropia Universe. “Participants realized early on the enormous potential in Entropia Universe for real commerce. In fact, the space resort had recouped its initial acquisition cost and was operating at a profit after only 8 months, and remains one of the primary event locations in the Entropia Universe.”

And, this soon after Goldstar Events sells our millionth ticket!  Good times! And, cryptically, it looks like Goodtimes is back on Facebook! If you have any idea what I am talking about find me on Facebook!

I was recently interviewed on MN1.com - Market News First. They are an IPTV channel about breaking market news.  Their tagline is: The exclusive IPTV source for the microcap markets!

It was fun! Kate Delaney is a fan, she loves this stuff.  Click here to get to the blog and then click on Podcast to watch the clip.
I visited a second time two days later and we talked about the China announcement, as well.  Click here for that visit! Click on Podcast to watch the clip.

Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kyosaki

You’re going to have to deal with money for the rest of your life, even if you’re really rich. After all, you want to keep it if you got it and get it if you don’t! So, don’t wait, just read this book now. After looking at it for too long, I finally, finally pulled Rich Dad, Poor Dad off the shelf. That’s what I mean about inspiration plugging up one’s nostrils sometimes. It was sitting on the shelf I look at every morning, at exactly eye level, and I just “didn’t have time” to read it. I am getting very clear on the fact that the stuff I don’t want to deal with is precisely the stuff I ought to deal with. And, the things that challenge me, scare me, or threaten me the most are the hardest things to even see. It’s like they’re wearing next gen. camouflage. If money is a challenge to you this book is a must read. I stayed up way past my bedtime, caught up in reading it. It’s inpirational. It is a fast, fun, really interesting read. He rambles and repeats himself a lot, but it works because it makes you feel like he’s talking to you, right out of the pages. I actually felt like he cares. I believe he’s sincerely trying to help people out of what he calls the “Rat Race.”

The things he repeats are important concepts, too. There are a lot of things he talks about in this book that you “already know.” However, by putting this particular group of things you “already know” in this particular arrangement and by including a few things you might not have known Robert Kyosaki really hands you some powerful ammunition for the game of life. The younger you are the happier you’ll be to know this stuff now, if you apply it. “I don’t work for money!” Rich Dad says quite often, “Money works for me!” He also takes issue with a lot of the “conventional wisdom” about assets and liabilities saying that, as traditionally figured, people’s “net worth” is often “worth less” than they think. Is your home really an asset?

As a final note, when I talked with my friend Paul, who read Rich Dad, Poor Dad about six months before I did. He said, “It really works! When I read it my financial life was a mess. But, these days I’m putting money away, I know where I stand, money is showing up unexpectedly.” It reprogrammed his subconscious. “It’s not like it makes you a millionaire overnight, but it gets you ready, which makes all the difference.” I can say now, years after having read this book that it has had a major, beneficial impact on my finances, as well.

Rich Dad Poor Dad is one of my recommended Life Matters books. It’s someday morning. Here’s a round tuit. The sooner you read it the happier you’ll be.