Oh, nothing against John Edwards, but this blog on Wired just sends me into paroxysms of giddy laughter. And aside from the perfect visuals, here's my favorite bit. I think it really does sum things up, the culture clash in cyberspace. I wish it were a small enough quote to fit in my rotating header quote above. I want to remember this moment forever.
This is the modern-day equivalent of hippies freaking out the squares. You see countless news stories about this, over and over again: the gray humorless drones of political parties or corporations rushing to establish a presence in Second Life because it's the thing to do, only to find themselves staring directly into the collective Goatse.cx of the Internet's soul.
Link: Table of Malcontents | WIRED Blogs | John Edwards Meets Second Life 'Feces Spewing Obscenity'.
John Edwards Meets Second Life 'Feces Spewing Obscenity'
As an adult heterosexual who has no interest in making love to an anthropomorphical fox typing "YIFF! YIFF!" into the chat window in capital letter synchronicity with every virtual thrust, I don't play Second Life. Yet maybe I should start, if this post from John Edwards' Blog is anything to go by...
Shortly before midnight (CST) on Monday, February 26, a group of republican Second Life users, some sporting "Bush '08" tags, vandalized the John Edwards Second Life HQ. They plastered the area with Marxist/Lenninist posters and slogans, a feces spewing obsenity, and a photoshopped picture of John in blackface, all the while harrassing visitors with right-wing nonsense and obsenity-laden abuse of Democrats in general and John in particular.
Read those words aloud, slowly, letting each one run sensuously over the papillae of your tongue. There is no way to get to 'feces spewing obscenity' without having what can only be described as a verbo-gastronomic orgasm.
I love the shrill, hysteria-laced tone of the post. It continues:
I witnessed this event, taking names and photos, including the owners of the pictures. I also kept and saved a copy of the chat log. I have filed an abuse report with Linden Labs, and am awaiting their investigation.
This is the modern-day equivalent of hippies freaking out the squares. You see countless news stories about this, over and over again: the gray humorless drones of political parties or corporations rushing to establish a presence in Second Life because it's the thing to do, only to find themselves staring directly into the collective Goatse.cx of the Internet's soul.
John Edwards Second Life HQ Vandalized [John Edwards' Blog]
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