Before we get to anything else in this post, I’m asking you to open up a new tab—better yet, a whole new window—and put Lucy Bellwood’s extraordinary comic The Scale of a Man in it. Don’t read it while you’re distracted. Set aside a few dedicated minutes. Come back to it when you’re ready for drawings of a model...

I had friends over last week for my first-ever LAN party. It was as good as I could have hoped: we set out Doritos and pizza and two-liters of soda, we plugged my thrift-shop laptops into a secondhand router on a folding table, and my friends and I played hours of Capture the Flag in Unreal Tournament. That game is...

Juha-Matti Santala suggested the topic of love letters to his readers last week, and I’m glad he did, because it helped shake something loose in my head. Six months ago, James Maliszewski made a pensive entry on his blog Grognardia called “Why I Stayed.” Reading it made me feel pensive in turn. That day I added a...

(You can click on these.) Addendum to last week’s newsletter: I learned about the wiby.me surprise button from Ethan Marcotte’s links feed. Thanks Ethan! Let’s not get stepped on today. —Brendan

This is a bad post title. I didn’t pick today’s links out of a hat! What I mean is, here are some ways you can find a random site on the World Wide Web. There used to be a bit of magic to just surfing to some site you’d never seen before. Maybe there can be still. All of these sources are curated to some degree; we...

Hello. The hasty monster in the header of this missive is named Mechnozoid and I must tell you that there are going to be more doodles in a similar vein to come. I am pretty rusty at drawing, but email is a disposable medium. If blog posts are ephemeral as lightning bugs by nature, exhibiting life only so long as...

… is that, a couple of weeks ago, I lost my drawing stylus. I was using it to doodle the logo for this server at a tiny coffee shop benefit concert. I am always annoyed with myself when I lose things. But I have no regrets because the concert was great. The person putting on the concert was Emma Joseph, who is very...