I found Michael Critchen's Next http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_(novel) quite scary with respect to the lack of ownership it says people have of their genes.
It also has a very reasonable sounding solution at the end - to increase the rights of ownership of our genes up to the level of ownership we have over of a photograph of ourselves.
That doesn't seem like too much to ask.

Recently I've been using stardock's fences to organise my into logical groups.

http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/screenshots.asp

Plus you can "sweep it all under the carpet" by double clicking the desktop to hide all the icons :-)

The headline "judge thinks linking should be illegal" completely misrepresents the article, which I read a few days ago. He is not advocating banning linking. A summary of the article is that newspapers have been dying because of competition from other media for a long time - first from radio, then TV, and now the internet.