Please Be Me

Want to see one of the weirder ways the concept of the self is being stretched on the Web? Go to DavidStill.org where Mr. Still lets you send mail as him. His “about” page says:

You are David Still, 32 yrs old, and a recent emigrant to Almere, Netherlands. You work as an IT Consultant for a small but expanding start-up business that specializes in communication systems. This you enjoy, as it gives you plenty of opportunities to meet new people. You also like where you live, it’s clean air, well planned cycle paths and neighbourhoods, and the newness of it all. Your home, that you live in on your own is called the Sail Tower, is close to Noordenplassen (North Ponds), where you often go for a swim, as part of your new lifestyle, though you still continue some of the bad habits you had from your previous life. In your spare time you like to work on your website where you offer the use of your identity to other people.

So, as we wrestle with the problem of maintaining a secure and reliable identity on the Web where we lack identity’s traditional anchor — I refer to your fat ass — here comes this joker that subverts the whole concept. Bless him and all his little pseudo-hims.

(Thanks to Tom for pointing this out and Halley for forwarding it.)

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