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It says something… interesting about my state of mind that when Steven writes (20070315.1900):
I don’t know if anyone’s interested, but I’ve gotten involved in an interesting discussion of the Civil War here and here.
my first thought was: “I didn’t know Steven followed American comics at all.”
Incidentally, both linked articles are worth reading if you’re interested in the Civil War that was about slavery, rather than the one that involved superheros punching each other over a thinly-veiled poor allegory of the Patriot Act.
Real content coming soon. I promise.
Most webcomics, by my wholly unscientific survey, are fairly open-ended. They may have some over-arching plot, and possibly even an idea for an ending in mind, but most of them seem to be designed to run on and on, until audience and/or authorial interest runs out.
One webcomic I’ve been following, A Miracle of Science by Jon Kilgannon and Mark Sachs, is not such a webcomic. They set out to tell a single story, they did it well, and now it’s over. And there’s one less webcomic for me to read. (Fortunately, Jon and Mark are planning a new comic.)
If you haven’t read A Miracle of Science, I recommend it. It’s a nice sci-fi story. The authors call it “a romantic comedy revolving around an unlikely pair of police officers and an even more unlikely criminal, set in [a] world of Science Gone Mad.” I could give you a big long essay about why it’s awesome, but I’m lazy so instead I’ll just quote the line of dialogue that sold me on the comic:
“When you’re a recovering mad scientist, you’re always afraid you’ll lose control and wake up some morning with a half-built time machine in the living room and a plan to go back in time to pants Hitler.”
If that intrigues you, go ahead and start at the beginning…
So, there’s going to be a 1 TB hard drive this year. For real. Not some RAID of smaller drives that pretends to be a 1 TB drive, but an honest 1 TB drive. Not only that, but it is launching at a mere $399, which is actually a price I could imagine spending.
Yeesh. I’m not even that old, and I can remember when 1 GB was a crazy-large hard drive that probably cost around that much.