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Well Glen . . . you have let the cat out of the bag. This anti-art campaign was actually a method of disposing of manufacturing rejects and "overs" without further cluttering the environment. CD-ROM is made out of the same grade of polycarbonate plastic that is used for eyeglass lens manufacture. I need not tell you how tough it is . . . but . . . if you took a 5 1/4" floppy disk, a 3 1/2" floppy, a 12" laserdisc, and one of my anti-art CD-ROMs and placed them on the dashboard of your car for one day in mid-summer in Los Angeles … the floppies would be so swelled and deformed they would not be usable, the laserdisc would exactly conform to the dashboard contour, and the CD-ROM would still be playable. Polycarbonate plastic is thermosetting and cant be re-melted into something else once formed. This poses a problem for disposable. After making them unplayable, what should we do with them? We could: 1. Print works of art on them and have people buy them to hang on their walls, 2. Print silly titles on them and have keynote speakers use them as hand props, 3. Make them into clocks and watches and have millions of people wear them, 4. Make ear-rings and pendants out of them and sell them as "Beatles" memorabilia. 5. Sell them to gun clubs as "Sureshot Skeet." I would enjoy reading other ideas and I am sure the replicators would be interested in all our suggestions. Cheers, John