“She has been programmed as 28-years-old, 5-feet 8-inches tall, with a pleasant, quietly intelligent manner.” Who? Ananova, the virtual news anchor developed in England. She looks like she’s into heavy eyeliner, collagen injections (bottom lip only), and blue-green hair (I wonder if she has any tattoos). You can apply to be her lookalike. According to this MSNBC article, she’s fluent in XML, which is how they will be triggering her various emotional looks: serious, somber, surprise and fun. Hmmm…I wonder which one they’ll use for Presidental election coverage. Because traditional BBC English sounded too bossy, she has a “mid-Atlantic” accent. What the heck is that? I bet my geek friends would program their own virtual anchors for their digital devices. Just like how they gather and distill news headlines into their own web portals right now. And then celebrities are going to be upset because people have taken their images and used them to read the news to them on their cell phones!