Online community for beautiful people

June 24, 2008 D. H. McKee

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… or for regular people using glamour shots, or for people with webcams.
More like it’s for people with seriously damaged egos. They have a height and weight listing for user profiles, but which are only ranges of heights and weights (i.e. people are 5’7″-5’11”).
The weight system is even more baffling, since most of the guys are either 5 or 6kg. What does that even mean?
Only the beautiful people need apply

Like a gated community for hotties, BeautifulPeople.net is an elite Canadian club with “a strict ban on ugliness.” Officially launching today, the controversial site — versions of which have been introduced successfully in 15 other countries since 2002 — is only open to men and women who are easy on the eyes, with members rating the photos of new applicants to determine their eligibility.
If you look like Charlize Theron, you’re in. If you look like Charlize Theron in Monster, you’re out.
Calling BeautifulPeople elitist but fair, the site’s operators say they’re “separating the hippos from the cheetahs” in the social networking jungle.

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About This Site

As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

Writers often treat the bio like it’s an interview or something. Maybe like they’re having a conversation with you, the reader. While it may work sometimes, the most common way to write a bio is to write in the 3rd person.

I’m like those writers, and I’m talking to you directly, unlike the common way to do a bio. You should see my About page. It makes sense to me, since this is a bit which describes my blog’s website. When I get famous enough that I don’t have time to talk to you, I’ll have an intern write everything in 3rd person. Until then, you get to talk to me.

Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.