January 5th, 2009: I came across Shannon Butcher when the CBC played one of her tunes and I think she's pretty rad! Her Myspace page has some songs and I recommend her upbeat jazzy covers of "Just a Girl" and "Mad World" which you can listen to for free. Plus, she's from Toronto so maybe I might run into her one day and say "Hey I like your singing!" It is good to have dreams that can be achieved sometimes.

Warning: both those links will play sound when you visit them.

January 1st, 2009: Happy new year, cats and kittens! Thank you for reading my comic and for making 2008 totally rad. I hope 2009 will be totally rad as well for each and every one of us!

To start off the totally rad, for Christmas I got a wireless digital picture frame, and have set things up such that anything on Flickr tagged "iampostingthisnaked" is automatically downloaded and displayed on my living room table! It's like living in the future. So if there was ever an image where you were like, "MAN I wish this image was in Ryan North of Qwantz dot com's living room right now", this is totally your chance!

You can flip through this Flickr link to see what's already been uploaded. All the shots are pretty rad: thank you, internet!

(The frame only grabs the 15 or so most recent images, so it works best if you upload a new image and tag it rather than retagging an old image.)

CURING AIDS AND CANCER: We've got over over a thousand members on the Dino Comics distributed computing team, which makes us the 13th biggest team on the network, and we've done over 400 years of worth of disease-curing computing. That is pretty incredible! If you'd like to join AND let your computer do useful work for humanity in its spare time, you can do so here. SOUNDS GOOD TO ME!