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Howdy! I've been given a chance to do a weekly Apple-centric comic over on Macworld.com. We're calling it Multi-Touch Theater and this is the second installment. (Last week's is here.) If the traffic is good, I can hopefully keep doing these on a weekly basis. Doing comics like this for other sites really helps me keep Diesel Sweeties running and ad-free, so please go give them both a read if you have a moment.

New strips will continue to run on Fridays, Steve willing. I'll keep running them in my feed as long as I'm able.

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Hugh Pickens DOT Com (2995471) writes "Tolkien was often criticized by his academic colleagues for wasting time on fiction, even though that fiction has probably done more to popularize medieval literature than the work of 100 scholars. Now John Garth reports that HarperCollins plans to publish Tolkien's long-awaited 1926 translation of the oldest surviving Old English epic poem about Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, who kills the monster Grendel with his bare hands and Grendel's mother with a sword of a giant that he found in her lair. Verlyn Flieger, identifies Beowulf as representing one of the two poles of Tolkien's imagination: the darker half, in which we all face eventual defeat – a complete contrast to the sudden joyous upturn of hope that he also expresses so superbly. 'In truth,' writes Garth, 'it is his ability to move between the two attitudes that really lends him emotional power as a writer.' Tolkien pushed the monsters to the forefront arguing that they 'represent the impermanence of human life, the mortal enemy that can strike at the heart of everything we hold dear, the force against which we need to muster all our strength – even if ultimately we may lose the fight.' Without the monsters, the peculiarly northern courage of Beowulf and his men is meaningless. Tolkien, veteran of the Somme, knew that it was not. 'It will be fascinating to see how [Tolkien] exercised his literary, historical and linguistic expertise on the poem,' concludes Garth adding that Tolkien was the arch-revivalist of literary medievalism, who made it seem so relevant to the modern world. 'I can't wait to see his version of the first English epic.'"

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Bill O'Reilly cites the "downside" of woman presidents, Chevron delivers pizza, Headline News targets the social media generation, and Beau Willimon talks "House of Cards."

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Invada Records, which is operated by Portishead’s Geoff Barrow, will release the Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon soundtrack as part of the 2014 Record Store Day celebration. The music was composed by Australia’s Power Glove and the soundtrack “mirrors the game’s vision of a nostalgia-drenched journey into the world of VHS-inspired dystopian futures.” The record comes as a double vinyl LP in neon pink with artwork by poster artist James White – Blade Runner, The Thing – and is limited to 1,000 copies worldwide. You can check some of the tracks out on Sound Cloud. Thanks, FactMag.