scionChickens...Innovative?

I just returned home from a nice brunch spent with friends in RL, logged on and went to some of my fave blogs. Good stuff out there. There were some funny things about being SLingle and receiving wedding crap for SL, a nice post of someone defending a friend wrongly accused, and of course the usual fashion stuff.

But nothing was more enjoyable (because I agree 100%) than Crap Mariner's post about the The Linden Prize. Crap explains more by writing:

The Linden Prize Finalists have been announced.

In case you're wondering what the Linden Prize is:
Annual award program to recognize a Second Life Resident, or team, with a $10,000 USD prize for an innovative inworld project that improves the way people work, learn, and communicate in their daily lives outside of the virtual world.

Cool huh? An innovative project that improves the way people work, learn and communicate in their daily lives OUTSIDE of the virtual world. Keep that sentence in mind.  Ready?

Crap continues by saying:

Among the nominees:

6) sionChicken and sionCorn Submitted by: Sion Zaius from Sion Labs

You've got to be shitting me.

How in the hell do sion Chickens improve the way people work, learn, and communicate in their daily lives outside of the virtual world?

No. Really.

Are you freaks sending Chicken-o-Grams to each other now?

Using KFC Doubledown sandwiches in the classrooms in new and interesting ways?

Filling your pillows with virtual chicken feathers because you're allergic to real?

Using the lag to slow bullets to save the lives of inner-city gang kids?

What the fuck am I not getting about this?

Where have I failed to slip the surly bonds of reality to find one whit of difference these things have made in the here-and-now?

Please, tell me in what universe this shit makes sense, because what I'm seeing is a privately-held company making horribly bizarre and irrational choices in a very public manner.

This is a joke, right? They're trying to flush out the reactionary and bash-happy jackasses (such as myself) for some kind of fun trip to the SL gulag, right?

Just. Too. Damn. Crazy.

Bingo! Couldn't have said it better. That is why I'm cutting and pasteing it here. The whole thing makes no sense to me in SL...much less saying it effects RL in a positive way. What? Do these chicken/bunny loving people somehow think about their beloved pets while buying groceries in RL? How about while watching TV, at the movies, talking on their cells? Maybe while doing the deed like little bunnies they're thinking about their little virtual ones.

I dunno. Many of my SL friends are into this. I don't get it. But I guess I don't have to. They seem to be having the time of their SLives. 

Go read the full blog post by Crap here.  Enjoy! And what do you believe? Do you have them? Do you love them? Why?

Oh so many questions....so little time.

JJ