Brad Templeton recently posted his idea of how all of our manuals and documentation should be easily downloadable from a reliable site based on the UPC of the product. Since not all companies last forever, a sort of online escrow repository would make things even better.
See: Going paperless by making manuals easier to find
I guess we [...]

Is your house like mine, with a few magazines scattered here and there, some in tidy magazine boxes on shelves, and many in a box or two somewhere in the basement?
The reality is that we are probably never going to read them again, but no one can bear to throw them out.
Occasionally I get a [...]

 
My wife came to this country many years ago, and in general she seems to have been pleased with her choice. One day she made a rather telling comment:
There are two things that I don’t like about this country—there are too many laws and there is too much paper!
Those words have taunted me for years [...]