Going, going ...

3 things apparently dying:

TYPEWRITER TECH. The BBC says the United Kingdom has produced its last-ever typewriter. But it's a far cry from the one your blogger learned to type on.

PUBLIC PAY PHONES. New York City's replacing hundreds of pay phones with iPad-like screens.

* Ex-Chicagoan Dan Marker-Moore documenting remaining Los Angeles-area pay phones in #payphoneography project
* Microsoft recruits Hobbits to sell Windows phones

MITT ROMMEY'S REP AS SAVVY BUSINESS EXEC. Mother Jones' Kevin Drum writes, "His longtime business cronies did well out of the campaign, but Romney apparently didn't know how to manage them very well."
* Lawmaker deputizes Reddit community to write new Internet law