Hack & Tell NYC presentation on PUG's Avatar Hot or Not. Just a small bit of stupidity.

2. Aggressively power bored + antsy.

3. Year 2000

4. Shallow, Dumb, and Stoopid

5. Interwebs = Shallow, Dumb, and Stoopid (Sometimes)

6. And we’re gamers (kindof)

7. XBOX LIVE AVATARS + HOT OR NOT = LULZ

9. l33t haxx0r

10. The secret ingredient is the URL

12. herp derp, thanks MSFT

13. Despite two decades of online interactions which have exposed
me to the very stupidest things humanity can offer, it
nevertheless manages to sneak in a surprise now and again.
All the pointlessness of Xbox Live Avatars combined with the ancient (by internet
standards) practice of rating them on a one to five scale based on how "hot" or
"not" they are. And yet, I still found myself clicking through half a dozen avatars
(rating every one a "3" because I don't know what the hell constitutes a "hot" or
"not" avatar).
It's about time we stopped judging whether or not
people were hot by how they look like and instead by
which out of a very small selection of clothing they
choose to wear and how much money they have
spent on completely useless things. Small victories.

14. http://avatarhotornot.com
yip, it’s open sourced
http://github.com/jgrebski/
nonsense provided
by @daseinmonkey + @jgrebski