
GOOGLE Yourself I Googled myself as part of a series of online assignments called 23Things . The purpose was to seek my digital footprint, which is how much of my personal information can be easily found online. I've googled myself before--admit it, you've googled yourself too--and my results are mixed. My birth name is Marcel Faulkner. The first search result of my autogoogle--yes, that's a word, or at least it is now--is from LinkedIn, and that's me. The next few results are also related to me, and further down the page, there are 2 images of me, as well as images of books written by a man named Marcel Faulkner. There is also a graphic black and white picture of a bombing victim, apparently a teenage FLQ member who accidentally blew himself up. This is where it gets complicated and rather unpleasant. The failed bomber was not named Marcel Faulkner, but the man who wrote those books was, and and both he and the bomber were associated with the FLQ in the 1960s. That...