"By using this registration information for any purpose except verification of warranty, you agree to pay me $100 or 90% of the revenue you recieve from the selling of my information net, whichever is greater, to be paid before so selling my information. A late-payment fee of 25% will be compounded monthly for failure to pay, capping $25,000 or 10,000 times the net revenue recieved, whichever is greater." Think it would work?

A few days ago I used the phrase license bomb to describe putting a license on some copyrighted material that you must accept in order to use, almost identical to a software license. Does anyone know how far that could be taken? Could I put a license bomb on my resume? My web pages? My registration information? And what with UCITA passing (assuming it continues to do so), maybe we could make a truly absurd license and attempt to enforce it, claiming that UCITA protects this. This slashdot message has the idea, and I think it's genuinely worth trying; why wait for "the industry" to provide an acid test?

(Wondering why you have to 'edit this page' before it will work? When you post a new message, the TEXTAREA's name is 'text'. When you edit a message, the TEXTAREA's name is 'body'. I just picked one. It would be nice if those were named the same thing.)

Macintosh Users: I think you can at least try it out, but I can make no guarentees.

Please do try this out; I need people to test it. I'm sorry you have to register to do so, but I can't do anything about that. Your information will not be used for anything except your post.

Want to try out the Add Link To Page? If you are using Internet Explorer 4+ (tested only on IBM, sorry, that's all I got), drag that link to your links bar, join this site, post a message on the discussion board, then select 'Edit This Page', open another browser window, highlight some text, and click the link you dragged up to your link bar. (You can also use bookmarks.) If everything works as well for you as it does for me, you should see that link, along with the text you selected, (eventually) appear in your posting box.

That was sample output from Add Link To Page.

BlogThis! and Manila That I've said before that Manila needs a link tool. Others have said that copying and pasting URLs and page titles into edit windows is the slowest part of weblogging in Manila.