My MicroDrive arrived this afternoon, from ReactiveMicro.com, one of the last hardware makers for the Apple // series. The retro-computing bug has bitten me hard, and I’m determined to get my very first computer back up to snuff. Here’s what came in the package (the USB / CF card reader wasn’t something I expected to [...]

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Brian Daniel's Comics: You want a decsription? Read the comic and write it yourself. What am I, your mom?

It's the weekend... go outside already! :)

TOOLS
Take a tip from Tom: back dat data up!  I just got a HP Media Vault myself to back up the 3 different machines on the home network.  Over at FLEEN, Gary has some words of get-off-your-butt-and-protect-your-data.

DEAD TREES

Warren Ellis has a post on print following several posts he's made about the low and dropping circulation figures for the existing Sci-Fi fiction magazines.  When Ellis muses about the market of comics and words and the web and printer's ink, I read it.  He's smart and he's not dogmatic at all (either for priint, the web, the way it is or some fetish of the way it should be).  Things are changing and I hope better business/marketing/distribution models get sorted out for everyone's sake.

AWARDS

Last week to vote for the Harvey Awards -- ballots are due Friday, August 15, 2008.

JUSTIFY MY HYPE
Yakoff, yakon -- in Soviet Union, Wondermark you!

Bernie Loves Predator's new comic is a daily take on current events called If You See Something.