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I mean seriously. Who is vetting the list of "obsolete" skills at Obsolete Skills? First, any time you're taking ideas from Scoble, you need a better checking process. But every letter has stuff that's just wrong...

AS/400 (Written wrong, and although renamed, is still very much in use and active production)
AT commands for modems (Again, no.)

Balancing the tonearm on a turntable (Vinyl, and turntables still aren't dead.)
Biasing Vacuum Tubes (Guitar techs and players everywhere are giggling at this)
Building a log cabin (I imagine the Amish would have something to say about this)

Calligraphy (huh? It's not even close to dead)
Changing Vacuum Tubes (obviously, the Music industry doesn't count)
COBOL (Um...clueless much?)
Cufflinks (Geeks don't go to many formal events, but that doesn't mean they don't exist)

Dewey Decimal System (?)
Driving a stick shift (again I say: ?)

EBCDIC (Again, just because the technodweebs don't like big IBM iron does mean it's gone)

So on and so forth.

It is apparent that both Le Scoble and the people running this site need to make use of another "obsolete" skill, namely using the correct word. "Uncommon" and "Obsolete" are in fact, quite different in spelling and meaning. True, they both have 8 letters, but that does not make them the same thing. Really. I know Scoble is astoundingly clueless about anything happening outside of his little dorkosphere circle jerk, (Seeing modern pictures of the universe made him cry. What did he think NASA and the ESA, and their Russian/Japanese/Chinese counterparts were doing all this time? Oh wait, it wasn't blogging or social networking, so it didn't count. Sigh), but this is just a tad ridiculous.

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