Creepy virtual Japanese lady takes over internet

I find it really interesting that all of a sudden the entire internet discovered and blew a gasget over cubo.cc (i.e. MotionPortrait), which has been floating around on various sites since August, 2007. Stranger still that MotionPortrait, Inc., who develops the eponymous Flash app, apparently hasn’t spent much time in the last six months or so making that disembodied, uncanny valley-dwelling virtual head any less friggin’ creepy.
I'm an editor and technology critic in the midst of founding a new web startup: 
