The Internet Archive*

http://www.archive.org

*Special Thanks To U.of T. Librarian Lachlan M. McNair for this wonderful link.

...g.k. once passed on to L.M.M. the concept he introduced in '74, for publishers to send their electronic galleys to the Canadian National Archives Library legal deposit, as they would be more accessible than hard copies. Well the "internet archive" is a wonderful example of what can be accomplished in this direction.

Excerpts from Clutter's Last Stand

by Don Aslett

On committing Junkicide: Junkicide is a slow, painful strangulation and dying of the senses. Although our brains are still intact, we’ve simply replaced thinking with things. We’ve crowded out creativity with accumulation. We’ve frozen flexibility with frofusion. We’ve snapped up so mucy free stuff and bought so many things to keep, store, clean, polish, and protect that we don’t have any freedom. As a personal demobilizer, clutter rates right in there with crippling diseases, being bedridden, unable to drive, or trapped in a prison cell. Our junk ties us down -- away from adventure, affection, and accomplishment -- and we can’t go when and where we want to.