Science…

So. As I’m not a great speller I recently quickly googled “gorgeous” to make sure I had spelled it correctly. Um… I found something interesting in the process. This image came up as the number one result for “gorgeous”. I’m not sure about the whole back story but they refer to the “uncanny valley” which (as I learned from 30 Rock) is the space between a cartoon-y or robot-y computer generated image of a person and a photograph of a real person. Meaning that when you’re in the uncanny valley something is so almost human that it weirds you out because it’s not quite right. Like someone who has had a lot of plastic surgery but you can’t quite put your finger on why they look a bit off. Anyhow. There’s some kind of contest or award or accolades or whatever for people working in this milieu. I think the first thing to note is that she’s wearing glasses.

The text describing the qualities that make this image the winner of whatever contest it is that people who do this think is awesome is so amazing and hilarious in its own right. It’s like some kind of nerd poem:

She presents and models her avatar here, which features the “WIA Head Down Little Girl” gesture by Baby Thorne, combined with the Lindens’ generic sad expression, and a downcast looked shaped via the Mysti tool. Marianne’s skin and eyes are by Robin Sojourner. As it turns out, she made this entry not just to create an avatar who engaged on a human level, but as a kind of public statement over a contentious cultural issue.

I don’t even know where to start.

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