Lions and Tigers and BEARS!

Eschatos went off to the SLCN taping of a Metanomics show with Beyers Sellers interviewing the Non-Profit Commons' Glitteractica Cookie yesterday. Beyers is actually going to be out at the Simuality real-world offices later today to check out all the stuff we're working on ... so I figured showing up at his gig in-world was the polite thing to do!



Of course, one of the topics being discussed was Glitteractica's "five minutes of fame" courtesy John Stewart (see my April 10 posting for details), something that Beyers (who is a Cornell University economics professor in meatspace) was thinking could be usefully spun to bring in more "entertainment media" to Second Life. He was specifically thinking of "John Stewart's little brother", Stephen Colbert, and, to this end, suggested a "Bear" theme to the audience. As you can see here, many ursine avatars showed up on cue, and Eschatos did his best with wearing the "home team's" colors!



Frankly, I'm not sure exactly what Beyers was implying ... while offering Colbert a lifelike eagle avatar, his "Truthiness Encylopedia", Wikiality, defines bears as: "soulless, godless, rampaging killing machines ... they are Satans minions and the TRUE symbol of the devil and evil", which is not exactly putting out the welcome mat! Maybe Colbert is a Packers fan.

Anyway, this dove-tails with some news which I am likely going to be announcing next week, so watch this space!