public.resource.org has a GREAT comic about a similar issue. It is a lovingly-captioned discussion between two Lego men. My favorite passage:

• "Isn't it the duty of every citizen to know the law?"
• "It is also the duty of every citizen to give us $100!!"

public.resource.org is a project to make government information more available. They've been focusing for a while on these sorts of expensive, copyright-encumbered laws. The courts have struck down copyright interest in these laws before, but that doesn't stop the cartels and the states from trying to charge people.

I intend to do what I can to keep the Geocities pages on the web. I am part of the Archive Team, an independent group of amateur archivists racing to rescue the web from destruction at its own hand. I bought geociti.es and we're in the process of putting Geocities back online.

At least, the pages we have rescued. So far, it's only about a terabyte. Imagine - fifteen years of the world's memories for less than a hundred bucks at today's storage prices.

ThinkPads have great pixel density. I upgraded from a 14" 1400x1050 screen (ThinkPad T43) to... ...a 12" 1400x1050 screen! The X61 Tablet is a fantastic little computer; I can't recommend it highly enough. When I bought mine (about nine months ago), those things could be purchased for about $1050.

IBM/Lenovo stopped making screens that high-resolution, but I bought mine used on eBay with nearly the full three years of warranty.

IBM/Lenovo calls this SXGA+, and you can find ThinkPad T40, T41, T42, or T43 computers on your local Craigslist. http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=t43+sxga shows you a few for a few hundred dollars in the San Francisco Bay area.

(Also, for what it's worth, the OpenMoko FreeRunner and GTA01 both had 2.8" screens at 640x480. Mega drool factor.)