Chez Coeur Mailbox

As you rifle through Justin's mailbox (Hey! That's a federal offense, you know), you find that it is neatly organized, but preposterously large, and filled almost to capacity. It contains a number of daily newspapers:

• C|Net News is all kinds of random techie news, mostly focused on the Internet.
• Wired News is also technically oriented, but with a great deal more attitude, or pretension, depending on your point of view.
• Suck is Wired's sister publication (or bastard offspring), dedicated to taking a nasty look at something every day. Sometimes interesting, but it looks like a lot of unread issues have built up.
• The Adrenaline Vault is a constant spew of information about the gaming industry. It's clear that Justin is valiantly trying to keep up.
• Blue's News is also about the gaming biz, and rather more news-oriented.
• Slashdot isn't so much game-oriented, but is very geek-oriented.
• There are also some daily comic strips stuffed into the box, rather haphazardly:
  • Sluggy Freelance is, well, itself. Best comic strip around.
  • User Friendly is the geek's own comic strip.

Underneath that are the weekly magazines:

• Gamasutra is the best place I know for hardcore discussion of game technology, especially software.
• Risks Digest is a plain, old-fashioned newsletter, apparently mimeographed. But the content is a rather disturbing look at our modern high-tech world.
• The Onion is the newspaper for Hometown, USA -- the most sincere look available at how the country really works.
• Comic Books Resources is a solid, up-to-date spotlight on the comix industry. It's got news and interviews and crap like that. But most importantly, it's got YABS and Come In Alone.

As you look through the stacks, you marvel at how any person could delude himself into believing that he could actually follow all of this. Truly, Justin is a poster boy for infoglut...