New World Newsfeed: Eshi, Bettina, and Professor Eel in The New York Post

Recent dispatches from the outside world...

AN IRAQI'S SECOND LIFE - New York Post

Thanks to the sharp eye of Post editor Stephen Lynch (who first saw it mentioned on Instapundit), an abbreviated version of my post, "A Babylonian Scholar Returns To Second Life", was featured in the paper's Sunday edition. I showed Alsaramady Eel the link yesterday, and he was thrilled beyond words; he was already familiar with the Post, he explained, because he'd noticed it mentioned in Hollywood movies he's seen. The edited Post version focuses on Professor Eel's interactions with  Bettina Tizzy and Eshi Otawara; even better, Eshi gets a photo credit.  It's one of the latest instances of avatar identities integrating into the real world.  Then again, that phenomenon preceded the Internet; after all, who remembers the real life name of the 20th century photographer known as Weegee?