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The JoyPoll was...

Is Internet access a necessity?

No, we did fine without the Internet before the Internet.
Not really, I could do without it.
Not really, but I will say yes, just in case you are planning to take it away from me.
It is for us in the western world, but not so much in the 3rd world.
It has become a basic human right!
I am part of an Internet provider business, and charging for it is essential to my personal and corporate well-being!

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We were an Amazon Associate for over 15 years, but soon after we published a comic unflattering to Amazon, they canceled our account.

When we tried to find out why, we received this reply... "under the terms of the Operating Agreement, we may terminate your account at any time, with or without cause. This termination is final and not subject to appeal." Gee, thanks Jeff.

But don't worry, we will still bite the hands that feed us, even if they don't help feed us anymore.

Forum tidbits!

The Famous Druid says Call me Vincent Van Druid, ... and asks about Drawing tablets for Mac, ... Aditu wonders whats the most morose song?, ... Ashitika shares morous green heating, ... and Snaggy wished a belated but Happy Birthday dragonman!

And in SuperFan Clubhouse Tidbits: Snaggy asks Want to preview The Doctor Who Experience before it opens?

SuperFan Subscriptions! Get access to the SuperFan Clubhouse, custom avatars in the Forums, a 10% discount on webstore orders, and as a SuperTreat, Solid Nitrozanium SuperFans can appear in the comic!

Neat things to read about and do, to bring a little Joy to your Tech.

The amazing self-updating Joy of Tech Thumbnail is featured on:

O'Grady's PowerPage!
Thanks Jason!

MacMerc.com
Thanks Rick!

Thanks Chris!

Macinstein's Mac Search Engine!
Thanks Rich!

...and of course we love the ever-loving MacSurfer.com!

About us...

The Joy of Tech is a comic about technology and pop culture, created by Nitrozac and Snaggy, and updated three times a week. We like to feature the people and events that are making today's tech news.

We've been making comics on the web since early 1999, and The Joy of Tech just celebrated its 10th anniversary. We're very proud to be featured regularly on places like AllThingsD (from the people who publish The Wall Street Journal), Macworld UK magazine, PC Live magazine, and many others, both on the web and in print.

We currently live on Vancouver Island, Canada, where we have a lovely perspective of the silicon valleys to the south. We make The Joy of Tech using Apple computers, mostly on our MacBook Pros, running Mac OS X Snow Leopard. We use software from Apple, Adobe, BBedit, OpenOffice.org, and others, including Microsoft (yep, we do use Microsoft Office for Mac on occasion). Nitrozac uses a Wacom tablet to draw her illustrations.