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Scott does almost all her collecting these days on an auction site called eBay. A sort of digital swap meet, the service allows users to sell and bid for antiques and junk of all kinds--old milk bottles, vintage postcards--even U.S. Grant memorabilia. "I've tripled my collection in two years," says Scott, who has amassed nearly 8,000 items, including a $4,500 signed letter and a $20 embossed pillowcase...
Tired of digging through junk mail to get to your bills? Net surfers will soon be able to enjoy electronic bill presentment, which "sends" digital copies of bills to websites for easy payment. Users of Quicken or Money, and customers at banks like Wells Fargo or Citibank (which just invested in Microsoft's online-billing venture) can get billed by utilities and telephone companies without any paper cuts...
...TIME magazine, TIME DAILY and Lunch-L, a mailing list I set up for the six friends I used to dine with every day when I was a newspaper reporter. Outlook went even further by adding a simple bozo filter, which allows me to click on any message, select "Junk Mail" from a drop-down menu, and banish to the slag heap for eternity anything that arrives from that sender. The torrent of garbage hasn't diminished; I just don't see it anymore...
...would go around to flea markets and junk yards and find electronic equipment," Leigh says...
...very congenial. In excerpts from At Home in the World in September's Vanity Fair, we learn that Salinger was a picky eater who didn't like his food cooked at more than 150[degrees]F, who made himself throw up after he ate junk food and encouraged Maynard to do likewise. He wore a blue jumpsuit every day to write and meditate. And he enjoyed American sitcoms like The Andy Griffith Show. "The worse the television--the more American--the more I love it," he told Maynard. If he's really lucky, she already has a TV deal...