Eschatos goes to a public protest ...

O.K., so "protest" is sort of over-stating it ... this was, however, an organized response by the Non-Profit Commons to Jon Stewart's "Avatar Heros" piece, which aired a couple of days ago on the Daily Show.



This piece was nominally about a Congressional hearing about virtual worlds, and ended up focusing on TechSoup/NPC head Susan Tenby's testimony ... largely due to her adding into her "on the record" introduction that her avatar's name is Glitteractica Cookie (Susan and Glitteractica are shown above).

At this point the story veered off from the Congress and focused on the name, with Stewart claiming that he had to settle for "Glitteractica Cookie2" (a joke that continued into the next segment when Nathan Lane claimed that he was "Gitteractica Cookie3") ... ignoring, of course (as had CSI:NY with "Don Juan Two Three") that Second Life avatar names "don't work like that".



Anyway, here is your 'umble narrator in the teeming throng (and in a cameo shot since none of the crowd shots were particularly flattering of Eschatos) wearing a box on his head with a pic of Jon Stewart, up in the "alternative" NPC auditorium over in the new "aloft" (LINK) island expansion.

A couple of folks were shooting "machinima" of the event, which included SLNN.com's reporter Aldon Huffhines' avatar appearing as a dolphin (much like the Daily Show corespondent in the clip, but without the breasts ... just watch the clip), swimming back and forth in front of the crowd. I anticipate that this will be appearing on YouTube sometime soon, or, perhaps, on The Daily Show!

More later ...