They stuff paper towels down the toilets and demand more heat or air-conditioning, according to the season.

FORBES: REIT Bubble

The Commerce Department has slapped tariffs on high-quality paper from China because the stuff is allegedly subsidized by the Chinese government.

FORBES: Golden Times--Even If We Don't Know It

The FLY, for lack of a better description, is essentially a pen-based computer for kids that lets you write stuff down on paper and then interact with your drawings.

ENGADGET: LeapFrog's FLY pentop computer

Look at all of that -- diaper packaging, electronic wrap, the plastic wrap from around paper towels -- all stuff that I have thrown in the trash at one point or another because I had no idea how to recycle it.

CNN: Recycle sandwich bags, dry-cleaning bags and more

There was a full page of text where some of them were non-serif characters, Helvetica, stuff like that and then a page of graph paper with grid lines, and pages with pictures and some other complex stuff and everybody had to print all six pages.

NEWYORKER: Creation Myth

Waste-paper merchants now offer 15 times more for the stuff than two years ago (see chart).

ECONOMIST: The rising price of cardboard

This was Nobel-prizewinning stuff, and William Fowler, one of the paper's authors, duly got the call from Stockholm.

ECONOMIST: Sir Fred Hoyle

The notion that the creation of paper is what would make us rich or boost the economy is the stuff of youthful fantasy, but for adults who believe that the Fed can create more Intels and IBMs through excessive purchase of Treasuries and mortgage securities, Monetarism presently seeks converts.

FORBES: Monetarism and Keynesianism: Identical Sides of the Same Adolescent Coin

Paper currencies always need tacit consent from their users that they will exchange bills for actual stuff.

ECONOMIST: Somalia��s mighty shilling

The next morning millions of people cleared store shelves of the stuff all around the U.S. We did indeed end up having a toilet paper shortage.

FORBES: We've Seen This Movie Before