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HER wish is for world peace and she wants to work with PDAs or other small, cute computers. Yes, you’ve guessed it, she is a Miss Digital World contestant.

Digital artists, advertising agencies and video-game programmers from around the world have been asked to submit a design of their perfect woman to www.missdigitalworld.com, complete with date of birth and body measurements.

The competition rules give us the same uneasy sense of exaggerated wholesomeness colliding with sleaze as the boring old real version: “[Contestants] must never have taken part, not even as extras or cameos, in any kind of pornographic film…

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