I have a chao!

My son created a digital pet for me today - his name is "lil'cy". He is a cute little widget called a 'chao' in a game universe revolving around Sonic the Hedgehog. To find out more about Chaos check out CHAO LABORATORY. com.
According to the online Wikipedia Chao (pronounced [tʃaʊ'], or "chow", plural form Chao) are creatures found in the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series, including Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, Sonic Advance, Sonic Advance 2, Sonic Pinball Party, Sonic Shuffle, and Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut. Earlier forms of the technology behind them, A-life, were also in NiGHTS Into Dreams with the Nightopians. The word chao is a pun on chaos, a word commonly used in the Sonic series.

Chao start life in an egg state. The eggs of a common Chao are white with a yellow splotch on the bottom and blue freckles. Eggs other than those acquired in visiting a Chao Garden for the first time or mating are colored differently and reflect how the Chao will look. For example, a Gold Egg is solid gold in color and will hatch a solid gold Chao. Ways of hatching them include softly rocking the egg to throwing it. When they hatch, they can be trained to be different attributes and emotional states. The Chao from this game - Sonic Adventure 2 can also favour "dark" and "hero" sides along with the "neutral" side form which can lead to variations in visual evolution. Depending on the way the game goes, they take various times to evolve.

So far that is all I really know except that they like to be brought Chaos engines and small animals.

Some Cool Links
Official Sonic Team Website
Official Sonic Team Chao Website
Chao Club
Chao Universe

These Chaos are not to be confused in anyway with the chaos involved in Discorianism. Discordianism is a modern, chaos-based religion founded in either 1958 or 1959. It has been described as both an elaborate joke disguised as a religion, and as a religion disguised as an elaborate joke. Some of its followers make the claim that it is "a religion disguised as a joke disguised as a religion" (or "a joke disguised as a religion disguised as a joke disguised as...").

It can be viewed as a simple rejection of reductionism and dualism, even falsifiability — not in concept different from postmodernism or certain trends in the philosophy of mathematics. It has also been described as "Zen for roundeyes," and converges with some of the more absurdist interpretations of the Rinzai school.

Also Socis is not to be confused in any way with Sonic Youth. Different animals I think...