I am not kidding… Looks like a skinned Internet Explorer, but we will find out on Thursday. The browser will only permit access to 10,318 Web sites, “all of which were prescreened and determined to be kid-friendly by the Miss America Organization and the Children’s Educational Network, which developed the software for it.” If you think out of all organizations, Miss America will protect your kids, you have to be smoking crack.

Imagine the family that installs this for their son…

The Miss America Kid-Safe Web Browser is to debut on Thursday. The free download includes blocking mechanisms that have existed for years. But it also features an animated Nelson who walks kids through their online experience, advising them about Internet safety and spouting random trivia: “There are twice as many kangaroos as people in Australia!”

She’ll read their e-mail out loud and can be programmed by Mom or Dad to remind children to do their homework, feed the fish or clean their room.

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