Transmetropolitan's scribe extraordinaire Warren Ellis spotted this girl with eerie error message eyes in Second Life, moments after a server crash and reboot.

As Warren says:

Aa random person I spotted in Transylvania two minutes after the grid went back up earlier today. In her eyes, you can make out part of an error message, denoting that a graphic or script from her customised "avatar" or representative form in Second Life is missing. It means that the system, that's been crashing and hiccuping constantly since an upgrade on Wednesday, is failing to find and/or process the entirety of her body. Elsewhere, I've seen people wearing that message over swathes of their skin, projected there by the system.

As Ellis notes, there's an excellent Philip K. Dick story in all this, perhaps to stand alongside his 1954 visionary classic, The Madame With The Wireframe Vulva. Florian "Eliza Should Have Done This Post, Not Me!" Eckhardt

Second Life Sketches [Warren Ellis]