(as Delbert McClinton et. al. sing.)
Due to volunteering my shop to be a storage space for a friend, now it's really hard to walk around in there. What else to do but throw things out? (No, wait, that one's valuable!)
So far, only a few candidates for EBay have showed up (ooh, a VisiCalc manual!), but most of the rest of computer manuals and old newspapers are ... being "deprecated". (My hoarding of the manuals predates the web).
Anybody need an old Addressograph machine? How about a SPARC ECL monitor? A VW parts car or two? USENET printouts from the 1980s? Hunter S. Thompson interviews in the newspaper? Old fishing gear? 10-year-old cans of paint? (hey, at least I didn't bring the latter with me, they came with the house ...)
The many years' worth of SubGenius propaganda and Kerrville memorabilia are probably going to stick around, though. Compared to all the above, they're kind of small.
And I will find the newspaper article about the (original) Lonesome Dove community, ... dammit. I know it's in there.
Somewhere.
OK, Verisign has done the biggest Internet land grab of all time. It used to be that if you typed (say) blablahblahblbalblablbh.com into a web browser, that your web browser would tell you "sorry, can't find that domain".
Not anymore.
As of sometime last night, Verisign, who (unfortunately) administers all the .com and .net domains, decided unilaterally to claim ownership of all unregistered names in those domains. This is so they can "help" you (presumably, by selling you that name in that domain).
This breaks the entire social contract of the Internet.
Completely.
These people must be nuked. Please, if you're considering getting a domain or a site certficate, boycott Verisign. If you're a friend of mine and have your domain through them, I'll gladly help you change it over to somebody else. Anyone else. Yeah, it may cost a bit, but it'll be worth it. (Plus, they are exceedingly incompetent at what the do, anyways).
This is an anticompetitive move worthy of Microsoft.
These people need to be driven out of business.
Badly.
(later addition)
Although it may or may not do any good, there is now a petition circulating to reverse this behavior. I urge folks to sign it; if you've got your own domain, say so in the comments or the location. (I do not advise publishing your email address this way, however.)