This might be the oddest sentence to appear in the NYTimes today (how’s that for a contest). In a sad story on “Vivienne,” an artificial computer girlfriend (who you can marry in a “virtual cermony”), there is this (I give you two sentences for setup purposes):

But Artificial Life has already run into delays in introducing Vivienne to men in Asia and Europe. It originally hoped to have her flirting on cellphone screens by last Christmas.
The problems have ranged from the cosmetic–Vivienne is being reprogrammed not to bare her navel or display body piercings in conservative Muslim countries like Malaysia–to the technological.