I’ll tell you what’s lately caught my eye about 90 times more than Second Life: it’s this website called Catalog Choice, which is a place where people can tell companies to stop sending ‘em catalogs all the dang time. Which, I guess that would make First Life a little nicer, if we could possibly help out with not denuding the Amazon and wherever else there might still, for a while, be trees. Like, I for sure don’t need Bean’s catalog for lobster boat captains, or the one they send to people they think might be interested in moose-themed dinnerware (why on Earth they think I’m one of those people is a pretty complete mystery; I’m more of a caribou person). And, well, I suppose I also don’t need the catalog that’s full of pictures of Charlie Sheen wearing different styles and colors of bowling shirts, or the catalog that has nine million jigsaw puzzles in it, eight million of which feature scenes of life in the Netherlands. Plus, I definitely don’t need to be reminded every month about all the delicious remaindered books I could have for various low, low prices, ’cause me and books, we’ve got some bad history to sort out. Anyhow, this Catalog Choice thing’s already been talked up a bunch by people who talk better than me, so I’m out of here. Just thought I’d mention how it seems like a good idea, if it works, to have one-stop shopping for telling people you don’t wanna shop via paper anymore. I waste enough paper as it is, scribbling pictures of god-knows-what.
