I think the book will bring the highest, although I have hopes for the license plate. I think the license plate will look VERY nice on some company's wall, and perhaps some of the Unix vendors will really appreciate the history behind it, especially Hewlett Packard. Of course Sun and IBM might bid to keep it out of Hewlett Packard's hands. At the auction in New Zealand we actually had consortiums form to bid on it.

Are there any particularly bizarre items that will go for auction?

I think the licence plate is a little bizarre, but the clock is also a bit bizarre. It is made from a CD-ROM put out by the Linux Journal many years ago. The CD-ROM was a "sample test case" for putting articles of the Linux Journal onto CD, and has some of their earliest articles on there.

The CD also has a nice penguin on the front, and a quartz clock motor attached to it. But most of all it has Linus Torvald's signature and the words "Happy Linuxing" on it. Linus tolerates this type of request from me, because I always make sure the proceeds go to some type of charity. The last clock I auctioned brought $750, which of course was doubled by USENIX.