From The Dreamcrusher, news that Wizard (no link, because they’re pissing me off) has gone and dropped the entire archive of Brian Warmoth’s Cursory Conversations. A Google search shows portions of four interviews still kicking, but it’s just a matter of time before they get aged out of cache. After that, it’s the Wayback Machine, or pretend that they never existed; for bonus points, guess which approach Wizard is taking. Fleen is conferring with Warmoth to determine if he can legally provide us with copies of the interviews; if so, we will host them.

Following up on the Jess Fink story from last week, Rachel suggests in our comments section that Hot Topic is handling the issue. Fink, however, reports less progress as of last night:

I FINALLY got an email back from Hot Topic but it basically says “we are forwarding this email to someone else, thanks for saying a thing!”
While other people who are not me seem to get more substantial responses.

Make of that what you will.

In short bits:

• Hawk’s talkin’ shit ’bout us old guys
• Funny Farm is building up to a climax of stupendous peakiness, then sliding to an ultimate conclusion this summer, and on to be replaced by a new series. The immeidate buildup starts here.
• Otter recommends to you an article at Wired on the value of giving stuff away for free. Says she, “Seems as though the discussion of Freemium is similar to some webcomic distribution models.”