Salon has an interesting article that those of you interested in identity in the age of the internet will want to read. It might also make for good course reading in the vein of Julian Dibell's article about the Lambda Moo rape and the much-told story of Julie the gender-switching psychiatrist, although this identity play is much richer. The most feared woman on the Internet By Katharine Mieszkowski Netochka Nezvanova is a software programmer, radical artist and online troublemaker. But is she for real? March 1, 2002 | For someone who does not exist -- at least the way you or I do -- Netochka Nezvanova has a fearsome reputation. She's a gifted computer programmer and polemicist, an artist and a pain-in-the-ass, a critic of capitalism and fascism, as well as a capitalist and a marketer.... http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/01/netochka/index.html Nancy