Bingle Blinger, Banglevator, Humdrum, Flicker Picker, Boingle Bucket... It's like a hodge-podge of web 2.0 services!

My guess is that which gives this such a life-like quality is the cycling through very subtle variations and combinations of facial expressions in combination with the seeming attentive focus on the cursor position. She does not stare at the cursor, it gets her attention and then if it does not move her attention seems to drift away, which makes her look lost in thought, or as though she is absorbing or considering that which she has just "seen". Imagine how much more compelling this could be if the cursor through which you "interact" with her was mapped to an animated butterfly?

I agree with Scott W...re: photo mesh textures.