Following up on the issue with the nude statue at Burning Life, quite a number of Residents have been in touch since the story was posted, and we've got two additional things to mention.

Firstly, the simulator in which the statue was sited was rebooted just after the move with minimum notice (two minutes, we are told). The people who were present report that they feel that the restart of the simulator was basically to boot off the protesters. Whatever the actual motive for the simulator restart, the timing and the short notice left the people who were present with ill-feeling.

Second, Cheen Pitney, the creator of the statue contacted us just a short time ago. "Well, I never imagined anything like this when I assembled this display, I thought nudity without sexual overtones was fine. This piece was meant as a statement on our need to overuse the world's water resources, it was nowhere near finished.... there would be figures on the perimeter that tried vainly to recover some of this water runoff," said Pitney.

"Unfortunately when I tried to move it ( it was not all in one piece) I lost most of it," Pitney added, and will have to start the work over - though Pitney did not seem unduly fazed by the incident or the need to redo the work.

Artistic nude male and female statues are generally not a problem. Unlike 20 years ago, when display of many of these classic figures were more controlled (or had a hat hung over them for comedic effect), these days you'll find many of the great artistic nudes in G-rated material, children's textbooks and the like. That brings us to Burning Life and an artistic female nude figure in virtual marble (the work of Hobo artist Cheen Pitney), standing on a PG Burning Life plot.

The sudden appearance of figleafing boxes marked "CENSORED" started to draw a crowd, with about twenty people arriving over the next quarter hour. Vicero Lambert and Poid Mahovlich (organizers for Burning Life this year) turned up about an hour later, and onlookers attempted to speak with them.

Lambert and Mahovlich then did something that bemused onlookers, and some say added insult to injury. Instead of answering right away, they began - inexplicably - to dance, instead. Lambert put on "yellow duckie shoes", and the pair danced silently for several minutes, to the increasing frustration and annoyance of onlookers.