Adam Engst announces the end of Info-Mac in today’s Tidbits. Over ten yeas ago, Info-Mac was the best place to get the most interesting shareware, freeware, and demos online for the mac, and provided a crystal-clear glimpse into a future where much software was free and disposable bits and shiny things ruled the eye of the online magpie. One hopes the archives were preserved in time such that future cybarcheologists can sift the bits for clues and treasure.
more of a spoon swirl than a tempest
Chez Slog, Charles Mudede notes a recent SIFFblog post.
Burn, baby, burn
As a new homeowner with a fireplace, I have need to know the URL of a Burn Ban status page. I wonder if someone’s scraped an RSS feed of this together, as I’m itching to gaze into the embers.
Laundry
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Last night was the first we spent in the new home. Of the cats, Chloe’s adjusting well, Simon not so much. I’m with Simon, to date. I keep myself sane by reading Bart’s blog. What ever storms I’m dealing with in my heart and in my mind, there’s no possible grounds for me to express even the slightest grumpiness, which of course doesn’t stop me at all.
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In today’s Seattle Times, Eric Scigliano rips the not-quite-new main building for the Seattle Public Library a new one, bemoaning the fact that no-one bitchslapped the place on opening. Begging to differ on this point, I’d like to note that my status as a critic of the SPL includes the building as well as predates it. Alas, I could not find the piece online using the paper’s search tools. It appears in the paper’s “‘Focus” section, which does not appear in the navigation that I could see.
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NYT runs love letter to Rocketboom, features still frame from episode featuring PF’s poppa. Coincidence, or conspiracy? You decide. Also, what’s up with the pf.org redirect to the Progressive Policy Institute website?
Let her press
This MeFi thread on letterpress printing may be of interest to some.
Imaginary blog entry here
You would not believe it if I told you, and I can’t tell you about it here. Suffice to say that today is, of course, Pearl Harbor Day, and torpedoing is involved. No one is actually dying and no specific future is threatened, but my abiding faith in a universe of cruel hopelessness has been affirmed today.
Also the Seattle Smoking Ban goes into effect tomorrow. Hit the Comet, people.
Rootabaga ingeniosity.
Broken Dreams
Holy moley! That soulless rapscallion Reynolds over at Fantagraphics hijacks me yet again! He kindly points out that stone comics genius Kim Deitch will be appearing in Olywa upon the morrow, at Danger Room Comics, more or less.
Footie
I’ve personally been calling for an outbreak of Bigfoot sightings since I moved here in 1990, first tying the phenom to a poor national economy and then to an overheated local economy. Currently I hold that such outbreaks are largely tied to inflationary housing markets. Bring on the mystery anthromorphs!
It's Here.
You know, I’m just gonna quote Fantagraphics Head Shill Eric Reynolds in full.
“It’s Here:
Alas, he provides no buying link. Also, I’m puzzled by ecto’s willy-nilly use of offsite image embedding. I should fix this, but instead will sleep.