I'll be the first to count such outbursts as a sign of growing democracy — Putin and new president Dmitry Medvedev could have just jailed Kasparov like former Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky. In the opening of the video featuring Kasparov, his bodyguards jump at first, presumably expecting something more menacing before swatting it out of the air. I asked Terdiman how he thought the situation was handled, as he was one of the first people to confront the flying penis menace, but he declined to offer an opinion.

Kasparov, for his part, was unperturbed and said (approximately translated) "we should be grateful that we've been shown one more time that we need to raise the level of political discourse" to applause from the audience.

To read CNET's account of the penisful incident, follow the jump.

On Monday, Graef visited CNET's Second Life bureau for a discussion about her business, how best to set up businesses in Second Life and the nature of competition there.

Unfortunately, as the interview was commencing, the event was attacked by a "griefer," someone intent on disrupting the proceedings. The griefer managed to assault the CNET theater for 15 minutes with—well, there's no way to say this delicately—animated flying penises.

It's not clear why the griefer attacked, but Anshe Chung is controversial to some Second Life residents for reasons such as inflexibility on land pricing, the signs she has placed in many areas of the virtual world that are visible to anyone flying overhead and her ability to get many residents to sell their land to her.
The biggest challenge was the established elite that existed in Second Life before I joined.

Chung refused to continue the interview in the CNET theater but agreed to go on in her own space.

Once restarted, the interview was attacked again, and the protester even managed to crash the entire server on which Chung's theater is held.

But after restarting and bringing back the audience, Chung talked with CNET News.com for nearly three hours.

CNET interviewer assaulted by flying wang [The Register]
Virtual magnate shares secrets of success [CNET]