Fred "Piro" Gallagher is the co-creator, writer, and artist for one of the most popular webcomics around, Megatokyo. The adventures of two Americans stranded in a Japan of giant robots, undead uprisings, guardian angels, and drunken monster turtles, MegaTokyo features comedy, romance and block-busting action. Interview by Bill Stiteler

Sure, you know "The Safety Dance" and "Pop Goes the World." You may even know "Hey Men" and "Where Do the Boys Go?" But did you know the Macintosh was used to create these pop gems of 80s and is still being used to create pop gems today? We recently spoke with Stefan Doroschuk of Men Without Hats about their new album, the Macintosh, and a recording industry gone horribly wrong.

Tom Anthony of Ambrosia Software, the company selected to receive the Lifetime Achievement award at the annual Applelinks Moofie Awards, speaks to us about the company, about games, and about a bird named Hector.

Harry Shearer is a busy guy. When he's not doing hilarious work in films like This Is Spinal Tap and A Mighty Wind, he's producing Le Show, his weekly radio...er...show. In addition to that, he recently finished his directorial debut, Teddy Bears' Picnic (which he also wrote), composes music and musicals, and can regularly be spotted on TV and has appeared in over sixty films. Whew. Oh, and he uses Macs. But you probably guessed that by now

One of my favorite Applelinks Moofie Awards categories is the Lifetime Achievement Award. In May of 2001, we presented this award to Al Lowe, creator of Leisure Suit Larry and all around fantastic guy. I had the opportunity to hold two hiliarous phone conversations with Al, and I'm pleased to be able to post those interviews here again in our new iConversations column.

Applelinks is pleased to announce a new section of our website: iConversations. Here, we'll post interviews conducted with various artists, developers and all around decent folk who use the Macintosh to enrich our lives and, more importantly, to make themselves a little money. To kick off the column, here's a repost of Bill Stiteler's recent interview with rappers Lords of the Rhymes.

What goes into creating the musical score and ambient music that we listen to each time we load up our favorite games? To find out, I chatted with Michael Beckett of Nuclear Kangaroo Music, composer of the music for Pangea Software's Nanosaur and Bugdom.

Print-on-demand (or, as the self-important yet slightly embarrassed crowd calls it, "author-driven publishing™") is kind of the literary equivalent of MP3, I guess, as it makes novel publishing accessible to those who otherwise would be stuck handing out heaping manuscripts in three ring binders to their friends and family.

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