NETSURFER DIGEST
   More Signal, Less Noise Volume 08, Issue 01
   Friday, January 11, 2002

   Move over, Melrose Place - It's the Geek Sexchart!
   The Geek Sexchart, est. 1997, is an ever-growing ASCII "family tree"
   diagramming interweaving physical intimacies among 1,400 hackers,
   crackers, geeks, and cyberfreaks. Lish Daelnar, the person at ground
   zero of the Sexchart and keeper of the flame, talked to Wired about
   the history of this strange project and its implications. "The chart
   was started specifically to make fun of me - to show how many guys I
   dated," she says, but notes that since the minimum requirement for
   chart inclusion is "wet kissing", "somebody with 20 links might mean
   they've kissed 20 people in their whole life." Nevertheless, some
   haven't taken kindly to having their personal meatspace links
   documented, and Daelnar has even received related e-mail threats. Her
   advice to the disgruntled? "If you're gonna have privacy, have privacy
   - you can't tell six people and expect it to stay a secret." Dare we
   label this another milestone for the open-source movement?
   http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48997,00.html