Source: xkcd.com

This, my friends, is the intersection between the internet and mass media at its finest:

It’s fun! It’s free! And it’s available on the internets… until Sunday.

I think that’s my one lament about it, actually. It’s only up for a week. The last episode will only be up for 48 hours. Which may be brilliant on Joss Whedon’s part–the lack of availability may very well encourage people to buy it. But I would have liked to see that fact advertised more heavily, and I would have liked to have seen the entire thing up for one more week.

Granted, that may very well have to do with the fact that I’m tearing my computer apart on Friday night to move to an apartment that won’t have internet until Monday. No, wait, scratch that, I’m tearing my computer apart Saturday morning. Right after I watch the Dr. Horrible denouement.

A friend of mine from grad school works at a company that promotes magazines.  Apparently the P.R. director got approached by the editor of this magazine:

It’s called Cats in Space, and I think it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my life.  It even beats out SparkleWorld. Seriously. I hope it’s real.

Actually, one of the even better things about CiS is its parent site. This high-quality publication is hosted by the similarly high-quality awesomecats.com. Content-wise, awesomecats performs its function of being a site about, well, cats. If cats are your thing, it has a decent collection of resources–if you can get past the horrible page design, at least. And the sad thing is, people have obviously very specifically spent a fair bit of time on the design of the site. The header, for instance, is beyond my Flash capabilities. Not that I’m some flash guru by any means, but somebody had some good quality bonding moments with Flash over that header. And they obviously try to offer a reasonable range of services. Why, I could register wasabijane@awesomecats.com if I so chose, or even have an awesomecats.com website of my very own!

Actually, this is what I find the most telling. Look at their site features: 5K free web space is but one example. For you non-techy people, this randomly selected image is 4K. A single-spaced, one-page Word doc is likely to be at least 25K. This blog post is probably more than awesomecats can handle. And, even more telling, the first line of their site features reads as such: “No knowledge of web design or HTML is required to create websites.” No kidding. But then, I think the only ones who would take them up on such an offer are people like the creators of Cats in Space.

…and anyway, I was always more of a dog person.