The Smorgasbord of Douglas Bell

I may be kinda “out there” in the tech world, but I still have enough senses to smell something creepy when I see it, as was definitely evidenced a year ago when a special PreviewCast episode started talking about some strange thing for Second Life.

Well, the world gets creepier as last week, Congress apparently held hearings on these virtual reality “world” things–and weirder, the real hearing was apparently simulcasted on Second Life. Luckily for me, Jon Stewart considers this stuff to be as freaky as I consider it, and he even pulled out one or two of the degrading jokes that I’ve used for the past year on this segment to make fun of Congress actually caring enough to hold hearings on these things! Boy, I’m glad I’m not the only one with some good, common sense!