Why I like Freecycle

Offered:  Suitcase of international things,   curtain material, roller  boots

The suitcase is full of things bought from around the world varying from lava from Japan to plastic cocktail glasses from Jamaica

Various lengths of curtain material - one piece about 2+m by 36inh

Roller boots work but insides have been eaten by a mouse

Anyone tempted?

Save the Internet?

There's been a lot of talk about network neutrality recently, see for example this piece by MoveOn.org. James Surowiecki sums the argument up:

Network neutrality was considered so fundamental to the success of the Net that Michael Powell, when he was chairman of the F.C.C., described it as one of the basic rules of "Internet freedom." In the past few months, though, companies like A.T. & T. and BellSouth have been trying to scuttle it. In the future, Web sites that pay extra to providers could receive what BellSouth recently called "special treatment," and those that don't could end up in the slow lane. One day, BellSouth customers may find that, say, NBC.com loads a lot faster than YouTube.com, and that the sites BellSouth favors just seem to run more smoothly. Tiered access will turn the providers into Internet gatekeepers... Decisions that once were made collectively by hundreds of millions of Internet users would now be shaped in large part by a handful of telecom executives. It used to be said that the Internet was all about “disintermediation.” With the end of network neutrality, the middlemen are striking back.

Come on, LiveJournal contrarians, tell me why this maybe wouldn't be such a bad thing after all?