Andy’s review of the Drobo backup mechanism is the kind of tech review I can get my wife to read. (And I hope she’ll read it, as I think this is our solution for a home network backup system.)
Forget the Linux requirement of LAMP, Mac users. Now there’s MAMP: Mac, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, the latter three in one handy distribution for Mac OS X.
Science fiction and fantasy author Steven Brust has written a fan fiction Firefly novel, posting it for free. All you Browncoats, put your bibs on, okay?