Comments on: Mockery, Flattery, either way the Late Show is funny

By: Greg Roy

Greg Roy — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:51:09 +0000

true, kronos… i was expecting to see a letterman post here! haha! but this was still funny!

By: Ankit

Ankit — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:03:05 +0000

Hilarious!!!!!!!

By: Aleister Kronos

Aleister Kronos — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:33:03 +0000

And you still have a typo… or so I believe… It is Daily Show, not the Late Show….

…and it is still about as hilarious as a custard pie fight, or the 3 Stooges hitting each other or, to be a tad more contemporary, any Steve Martin movie of the last 10 years.

By: epredator

epredator — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:45:01 +0000

@giff yes I see what you mean, but as we need people to even pay attention in the joke phase before going to threat and then obvious it has to happen in this way I think.
@glenn its not just second life. You will not be forced to use it for anything any more than you are forced to use the web for anything. I do clearly remember people complaining that this internet thing was just a fad and only for students . we have lots more evidence now of business uses. They do not have to be the same look or mode as Second Life. Though even in that environment there is a diverse set of communities. Some pure entertainment, some more serious. Just as the web, it is poles apart between a homebrew site for a niche interest and corporate presence.
You are well within your rights, just in in a real life situation to act offensively. However, social norms and etiquettes form. some are more extreme than others.
If forced into a business meeting in real life at a location you dont like I would suggest that you would conform a little to those around you, same things apply in virtual worlds and metaverses.
It is an interesting point to consider, and I fully appreciate that these ways of interacting may not be for everyone. The key is to make everyone comfortable with which ever way they need to operate I think.
We can be sure that emails, blogs, websites, screen sharing and powerpoint are not the pinnacle of human communication over electronic media :-)

By: The Grid Live

The Grid Live — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:33:24 +0000

Second Life News for April 12, 2008…

From: Digital Trends Second Life Career Fair Offers Real Jobs Quote from the site - At Working Worlds, the desk, chair and avatars are all computer-generated, but the jobseekers and employers that use them both hope to hammer out real-life jobs.
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By: Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:53:30 +0000

This can be seen on comedycentral.com under Videos - Daily Show. the title is “Avatar Heroes”.

I personally think 2nd life is a fad that has limited use - maybe as a social site and an enabler for the severely disabled. If I am forced to use it for business purposes then I will learn how to make the avatar pick its nose, scratch its butt and basically do anything remotely considered rude.

By: Giff

Giff — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:38:35 +0000

I had a slightly different take. I thought it was funny, just as you did, but I did not see it as an example of virtual worlds seeping into society. I saw it as an example of society keeping it at arms length as the strange, the bizarre, the *other*. I think this topic still makes a lot of adults nervous. I’d be interested to hear how kids react to this - do they laugh, or do they go “lame, that old guy just doesn’t *get* it”

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:16:40 +0000

thanks for sharing. That, truly, was one of the funniest things I’ve seen all week.

And, it’s a rite of passage to be lampooned on one of the late night shows. It’s a good thing…

By: Aleister Kronos

Aleister Kronos — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:14:04 +0000

It’s the Daily Show… and a curate’s egg. The Glitteractica bit was funny - and the porpoise. But admit it - much of it was meh

It was rightly taking the p*ss out of the notion that Congress would hold a special session about VWs - something I, too, think is bizarrely hilarious. It still surprises me that no-one (apart from me, at least) mentions the actual date of the hearing - and whether this was irony or coincidence.