It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

2nd life Revolution!

I have a lot of opinions about second life. How it rewards hording, how it gets too much media coverage, how it's hardly a game, etc. etc. But one thing it gets right: French Politics.

The Washington Post reports:

PARIS, March 29 -- In a battle between push guns and pig grenades, the exploding pigs won.

The clash started on a January morning when protesters attacked the cyberspace headquarters of extremist French presidential candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen in the popular 3-D Internet fantasy world Second Life.

Le Pen security forces responded with push guns, whimsical digital weapons that tossed bodies through the air "like rag dolls," according to one witness. Protesters fought back with pig grenades, firing fat pink porkers that exploded in neon pink splatters. When the shooting ended, Le Pen's headquarters lay in ruins, deserted by staff and guards.

So ya. That's awesome. A video of a previous uprising (Apparently it's happened before, and apparently they don't have the new one on youtube yet):

MEGA UPDATE MANEUVER! Okay, so wtf. This was on my google news thing as being 'news'. But it's in reference to a JANUARY thing. The youtube one was posted in february, and is probably more recent. So: YouTube searches more accurate news sources than the Post? This Blog more accurate than the post? I dunno... the story's really about kinda the whole situation...