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Lazy Saturday long read: trying to vanish in the digital age

CrunchGear  Nov 21 09

Are you sitting comfortably? Good. Because you're not going anywhere for a while. Wired has a great article up right now that reminds me of Wired magazine content in their glory days in the early 2000s. The object of the piece is to examine the feasibility of disappearing completely in the digital age. They gave writer Evan Ratcliff a month's head start to plan his means of vanishing, then set the entire internet on him once he'd executed his plan. I'm only about halfway through it right now but it's an easy recommendation if, like me, you're lolling on the couch, sipping coffee and browsing the net. Full story...

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