I'll take it!

Funny you should mention Doppelganger.

A little fantasy that's been rummaging around somewhere in the back end of
the cerebellum is something called doppelganger.com. The idea is, everybody
has one, a walking double that is, but we never seem to see them.

With this site, all you do is submit a head shot of yourself, then the
facial recognition software on the server matches you with the two or three
most similar faces on its database and pitches them back at you, all
anonymously, of course. It would only start to work well after a few hundred
thousand people had tried it, though, so getting past that first bit would
require giving away prizes or some such incentive. Would it pay for itself?
Doubtful, but it would be fun to try it.

Signed with pride, X-D

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Ken Follett [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
                Sent:   Wednesday, March 01, 2000 7:29 AM
                To:     [log in to unmask]
                Subject:        BP Nickname Barrett - Old News/Photos

                In a message dated 2/29/00 6:21:08 PM Eastern Standard Time,
                [log in to unmask] writes:

                >  The question I often have is how did the person in these
photos wind up
                >  being me?

                Bruce Barrett = X-Doppelganger, or X-D for short?

                Shaman