Miss Digital World

[arcticpenguin]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=2&u=/nm/20031106/od_nm/italy_digital_queen_dc


Digital artists, advertising agencies and videogame programmers from around the world have been asked to send a computer design of their perfect woman to www.missdigitalworld.com, complete with date of birth and body measurements.
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Designers will program their contestants to parade along a virtual catwalk, and there'll be a virtual presenter and virtual guests who will help create the atmosphere of a beauty contest.

The winner will be crowned at a flesh-and-blood conference in November 2004 and Cerami hopes the digital queen will go on to greater things with roles in videogames, virtual reality films and adverts.

Will this move the ideal of feminine beauty even further into the realm of unobtainability?

[gnome]

Female beauty has been idealized for centuries in statue and art... this is just a new medium.

[arcticpenguin]

Good point.

[Jim_MDP]

They should have requested a set age rather than a DOB.

[Reginald]

I hope that server isn't in Nigeria, otherwise a game of .Command and Conquer Generals will break out in the local towns.

[gnome]

I wonder if this is a fake report--the website doesn't seem to exist.

[Mendor]

If you take the comma out of it, it works.

http://www.missdigitalworld.com/

[Pepper's Ghost]

I must have pulled a "Rip Van Winkle", that site is copyright 2004. So, what have I missed for the last 3 or 4 months?

[garys_2k]

Is it just me, or is that babe on the front page cross-eyed?