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“Matching luggage” means overstuffed garbage full of someone’s life, and “residential units” means someone trying to live in a self-storage space—according to Fred Reger, auctioneer and ironist. This from an NYT story about self-storage sites auctioning off the property of people who’ve defaulted on their storage rental fees. “U-Store-It’s stock is up 33 percent this [...]

OLPC mesh networking + Windows XP? Oh dear. Groklaw asks: “What are you doing to those children?” C|net’s Matt Asay expands: OLPC is rather about liberating developing nations from their vassal status that continually keeps them at the mercy of the pricing and licensing of Microsoft and other proprietary vendors. By building on Windows, Negroponte [...]