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In a parallel between an acclaimed novelist and a mad-scientist Internet creator, both leaving unpublished works after their untimely deaths, we see a great disparity of the different traces of their archives left behind. How much culturally valuable content do we lose in an accelerated information age? The answer may be more than we would have ever imagined.

A freak accident leaves my beloved 2004 iBook G4 incapacitated with a bad logic board. Since Apple has told me the wait for a new logic board may be up to a month, I’m forced to move to my backup laptop, a Sony VAIO VGN-FS660W. With a fresh Windows XP install and a full day’s worth of hacking, I’ve gotten Windows back to a usable state — and, still, Windows shows its nasty, aesthetic-lacking teeth.