12:04 PM
Three separate people have sent me a link to the campaign collecting AOL CDs to send them back to AOL HQ. Odds are you've seen it already or will soon, so I won't link to it here. Besides, you could find it if you really wanted to; you're clever like that.

I do however, find it interesting that such a sloppy website is standing up under the weight of Slashdotting. And that with it's international branches (!) the campaign has a Googlelock on "AOL CDs", and has just about taken the whole front page.

Further, who are these people that are so annoyed at the discs that they've hung on to thousands of them? I have one, but only because it has a neat Spider-Man logo printed on it. No way I'm giving that up.

Finally, let me get this straight: they're annoyed that AOL CDs are clogging up the mail. So what do they do: put a million discs back in circulation.

My theory: the whole thing is a ploy by the Postal Service to up revenues. Go ahead, tell me I'm wrong.