Is this an isolated case, or have you folks ever found yourself eating, drinking, or doing things a certain way after seeing it in a game? I'm not talking purchasing large baskets of Axe deodorant due to an in-game ad here - we've all done that. I'm talking more subtle things here. Going on a fresh fruit kick after a Pac-Man marathon, or getting really into curry after watching the marathon curry cutscene in Xenosaga II? How much power do video games have over our daily habits? If only we had a comments section in which to discuss such things.

Chicken and egg, Second Life once again makes it possible for both to come first. An art show is now going on in SL where a Rio-based artist name Lois Lancaster is showing his expressionist paintings at the KODE Gallery in Second Life. That's the chicken part. The egg is that in real life, he is a digital illustrator, so does that make his art digital in the real world, and art "regular" in Second Life? Or does it make the exhibition itself a piece of his art?

I need Advil. Kim Phu

Brazilian Art in SL as 3pointD Holidays in Rio [3pointD]

Egg smashing and crow hatching now with added Lair footage. Plus, a computer generated image of the SIXAXIS mechanism, which apparently contains a red glowing electric ball at its center. No wonder they couldn't get rumble in the controller! Brian Ashcraft

Thanks, Dru!

This experiment doesn't say anything about the 360's heat "problems", since the heatsink is supposed to get super hot and dissipate heat, but it is cool nonetheless. We'd like to see him put on some bacon, toast, and finish up with nice porterhouse. Jason Chen

Adorable. Not the girl, though she's no mean shakes herself, but the cute little ovum Link she clasps lovingly in her hands.

Meet the EggLink, he's the Yolkiest time hero since the Chrono Trigger! Egglink isn't an attempt by the American Egg Board to get in with the geek crowd. He's 3 years old and is the creation of Betty, a Zelda fangirl.

EggLink was one of those 'take care of a fragile thing' projects they make you do in Highschool. Limbs, suit and pillow made from felt, sword, shield grass and Triforces are foamy.

Betty's my kind of girl, and I'd love to ask her to go out on a date with me please, but any girl who wanders around with a three year old rotten egg painted anthropomorphically is probably a little bit crazy. Florian Eckhardt

Meet the EggLink [Dark Diamond] (Thanks, Beatriz!)

Hot tipper Kirby wrote in to show us the pics he's been taking of Yoshi egg graffiti that has been materializing all over his territory:

It seems that the Mushroom Kingdom, er Yoshi's Island is invading Pittsburgh. In the northern region near Route 28 and the North Hills Yoshi Eggs have been popping up in all colors and sizes. Either King Koopa is planning on taking over the MLB All-Star game or the city has a graffiti artist w/ a sense of humor on its hands

According to commentators on his LJ entry about the eggs, there are over 100 of them scattered about and it sounds like the artist's intent was that they be hunted for. Someone even says they "spotted some tiny, inch high, ones in Oakland last week and jumped up & down." eliza Gauger

Read the post on LJ and see more pics of the eggs [LiveJournal]