CNET's Second Life bureau was assaulted the other day during an interview with virtual land magnate Anshe Chung. As the interview was set to begin, the CNET theater was set upon by a horde of animated flying penises.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the future.

I believe this is exactly what William Gibson was envisioning when he wrote Neuromancer. I can just picture his editor calling him up. "Yeah, the story is great...very innovative, cutting-edge stuff. Could use a few less airborne dicks."

Unfortunately CNET has no screenshots of the attack, or the one that followed, eventually crashing the server. I'd look harder, but I don't think my coworkers here would appreciate me doing a Google image search on "flying penis". Michael Fahey

Update - Thanks to commentors, we've found the video, and you can see it after the jump!

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.

CNET interviewer assaulted by flying wang [The Register, via Valleywag]

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