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Kudos for encouraging your daughter to go beyond the usual girly-girl commercial sites. Although there would seem to be a logical progression from imaginary adventures to adventures of an entirely different kind,

I live with a teacher, and have worked in local schools myself.

I know for a fact that at least two of the schools in my area have discovered that their kids are busy making their own porn, which they cheerfully send each other via their phones.

Doesn't surprise me. I'm waiting for the first case where Daddy is arrested for child porn because his loving daughter was playing doctors and nurses with a friend, decided to use her Christmas present to film it and he was caught with the doll in his possession.

I guarantee it'll happen in the next 2 years.

Picture here: http://www.goatse.cx

I discussed this with my kids just now, and they agree 100% with the award. After all, this is the man who made barbie.com possible, as well as trollz.com, clubpenguin, and neopets.

there's a market for [actual doll houses]?

Mattel seems to think so: see its Loving Family and Barbie product lines.

I introduced both of my kids (now ages 6 and 8) to computers at an early age. We started with games that taught them something, like math, reading, or memory skills. The Reader Rabbit series is pretty good for this.

I try to steer them away from surfing the web, because most sites that are oriented toward kids their ages tend to be pure entertainment (usually tied to a brand of toy). But it gets hard when their friends start telling them about the latest update to barbie.com.

Unfortunately, there is little (if any) open source or Linux software aimed towards young children.

Good Luck!

Oh my God, they totally forgot the killer app!

She's still pretty young but my daughter loves to play Q3A with me and my son. She basically likes to play anything we want to play. She gets very picky about the models used and wants one that is a "pretty girl" like her. At some point in her life I'm sure she'll have a boyfriend who she regularly beats in whatever FPS is around at the time.

The funny thing is that she will also play on the barbie website for hours. My son won't go near it.

So maybe someone should try and figure out why boys don't want to play barbie.

You're either an 11-year old girl, or you're pretending to be one. Either way, it's pretty lame... Might I suggest you try this site?

NO! NO! peeing cat barbie is a real product!

See? http://www.barbie.com/Catalog/product.asp?type=100 001&theme_id=100001&subtype=100001&product_id=1002 7

The current DNS system was designed by idealists who apparently decided that

1. Businesses would use .COM exclusively, while Network providers would use .NET exclusively and non-commercial Organizations would use .ORG exclusively. This isn't the case in our commercial/political world (except for .EDU and .MIL, where enforcement of the original rules is strictly observed) where commercial entities (Businesses) own .COM, .ORG, and .NET versions of their names without having the underlying organizational infrastructure implied by the name.
2. second-level domainnames would reflect the organizational entity so that the xyz.com domain would reflect all the servers for entity XYZ. This isn't the case these days, where each product gets it's own 2nd level domain (anyone care to guess what barbie.com leads to? Hint: it doesn't lead to Barbie Inc.'s website.)

It seems to me that either the naming convention recognizes these commercial aspects in it's design, or it abolishes them; there's no room for ambiguity here.