As an accidental world leading authority on naked Zwinky, I feel it is my duty to bring you more digital nudity.

Over at Siliconera, I was engrossed by an article on a Nintendo nipple oversight. Shock horror, in Kid Icarus there is a Syren with no top on.

The article is a bit gamer nerdy (ie way over my head) but the comments are heated and well worth a read.

My opinion, for what it's worth

Run for the censors, people, this could corrupt the minds of millions and ruin the right hand action of millions of impressionable gamers.

On the plus side, it could be quite educational for the mal-educated and sheltered. A bit like the phenomenon of city center kids who think milk comes from bottles, not cows, this Nintendo oversight could quash myths about what a nipple is. ie it isn't a heinous blurred out body part exclusive to physical freaks like Janet Jackson. Everyone, digital or real, has them.

(Your mileage may vary, of course! If your name is Scaramanca, the man with the golden gun, you have 3 nips, and if your name is Ed you had one of yours ripped out by a doctor at birth.)

Naked Zwinky, the rudest avatars on the lame chat scene, blanch into insignificance when compared to the dark, orgiastic, graphical depictions lurking on the swinging World of Warcraft community. In the name of reality, here is what happens when a happy housewife is tastefully morphed into a sinister buxom skinny thing with a thong and horns. Technological progress and imagination is a double-edged sword!

In the name of research, I would be interested to see the result of distasteful metamorphoses - but not over breakfast, and with my counsellor on call.

Naked male avatars?

Please, don't make me laugh. American-produced video games and Sims stuff are a somewhat skewey reflection of US society. Producers want the money and a slice of the lucrative US market, not a ban and ex-communication. Therefore,don't expect to ogle a mainstream naked hunk any time soon. But if depravity sweeps the Americas, MMOrgy will surely keep you uptodate with further videogame PrOn developments.

If you really need a virtual hit of XX proportions, head off to Japan. They seem to have extraordinarily liberal attitudes towards sex and violence (emphasis on the sex and violence) and produce material that would make even repressed puritans with a gimp in the basement blush. Inquisitive grannies and teens alike, head east to feast on digital mayhem with or without clothing.

Meanwhile, I continue to save for a PC so I can actually activate my Zwinky toolbar. The suspense is killing me. By the way, thanks to gamer Wonderland for the inspiration for this development in all things naked zwinky-ish. My horizons have been broadened.

I would love to review Zwinky first hand, but this mother of all avatar makers is so universal it doesn't work with Macs. Despite my desire to join the party and dress myself as stylishly as the Mom reviewer to your left, it just isn't going to happen, at least not till I buy a new computer.

Therefore, all I can offer by way of a review are a few links to my own Zwinky tool bar discoveries, which comprise sad second-hand insights, plus first-hand in-depth knowledge of the homepage only.

If anyone could hack Zwinky for Mac, let me know and I will be all over it like an illegal rash and review it indepth.

And for those naturists who Google Naked Zwinky, I wish I could help you in your quest for knowledge, but I can't.

Zwinky on, dudes.

Scary to think that 2 million people downloaded the Zwinky drag n drop toolbar on day one of its release. Why is that scary? In case you didn't know, Zwinky is an avatar creator, ie the tool of preference for social MySpace networkers who, not content with simply inventing on-line personalities, can also now create 3-D versions of themselves.

Now that is scary and we would advise you to drag 'n drop Zwinky straight into the trash and at least keep some semblance of reality in your real-world life.

Zwinky, the mother of all avatar creators has had a mixed review. For a balanced satirical viewpoint, we found the negative comments.

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Not a unit of currency, nor a candy bar, this is the new word in avatars, those pointless badges that you see in forums alongside usernames. Needless to say, the latest social network avatar idea will be all the rage for about three weeks, till the next must-have feature spams us into submission. Still not sure what the hell we are talking about? Get with the program.

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The wonders of pop-under ads, this avatar-creating all-in-one toolbar of fun was found on my desktop by mistake. Once I had got over being tricked by Zwinky, I would like to thank them for the delightful ideas on how to dress for any occasion.