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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

BA - philosophy - cum laude (thesis - "On Moral Action")
BA - anthropology
minor - geology
MA (all but thesis) Anthropology - thesis topic "Internet Dating" but I am really a behavioral ecologist at heart.
Card carrying member of the ACLU
Founder of the Yellow Party (whose manifesto is still being written)
I call myself a compassionate Nihilist

The Nick comes from the Movie "Yellowbeard" Starring Graham Chapman, a lot of the Monty Python cast, Cheech and Chong and Marty Feldman, among others. I got the name (or rather, gave it to myself) at Arkansas Governor's School over 12 years ago. It is my handle on several sites including Fark.com (which I will probably frequent a lot less, now that I have this account) and Kuro5hin.org, on which I have written a couple of reasonably well-known articles, but which, alas, I also no longer really frequent.