Oooookay. When I posted about this the last time, I was more than cautiously optimistic that maybe someone in the mainstream media would take SL seriously enough to do more than provide a backdrop of seedy sex and perversion. And this newest commercial for the upcoming episode of CSI: NY does still keep some of that feeling, but then in the latter half, turns it on its head.Character creation has never been faster, according to this commercial. You can apparently do it all from the keyboard, too, from the sound of it. Whatever; that's all well and good. It's when they get to the gladiator arena that I begin to worry. "He's serious, Mac." Then, a shot of the SL expert character using some sort of gamepad, or input device to wage combat? Then a decapitation, Mac shouting "Log off! Now!", and the sound of my suspension of disbelief being smashed with a hammer. Well, at least it's different.
(Via youtube.com)
I was wondering how long it would take for the YouTube of SL to appear, and here it is. 
Ah, I've found it: the Australian TV tech show 'Beyond Tomorrow' did a short piece on SL, and it's available on YouTube. The tone of the segment seems to bounce back and forth between 'hey, isn't this interesting', and 'hey, this is weird', but it's an upbeat look at the world, at any rate.
