Virtual Destruction

Russell might be into this, seeing he likes to blow up islands in Second Life.

From a Clive Thompson article in Wired.

I plowed into the intersection at about 140 miles an hour and boom -- slammed headfirst into an oncoming four-door sedan. Ouch.

And: Wow. The scene immediately shifted into John Woo-style slow motion. The cars reared upward, groaning, like two fighting antelopes; my hood crumpled into an origami flower, the metal bending like tin foil. The windshield became a fistful of glittering ice, hurled into the air. A tire pirouetted away like an escaping planet.

Let me tell you: It was beautiful.