The December issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading and downloading pleasure. Our continued thanks to Bare Bones for their sponsorship of the publication. ATPM is an all-volunteer effort, and any monies made from sponsorships or ads go to support the ever-growing hosting costs for our eleven years' worth of issues. If you are a hardware or software developer for the Macintosh community, and you would like to become an ATPM sponsor, please contact the editors. Rob reminds us of December issues past, present, and takes a peek at the future. Ellyn notes how the gadgets of Star Trek are slowly appearing today. As usual, you can depend on Paul for an eclectic mix of sites to explore: tractors, Mac browsers, sudoku, Lowe's library, and a porcelain throne in a pear tree. Ted wraps up some loose ends in this month's ATPO, and puts the call out to the outlining community for users to help out with future ATPO columns, as well as proposing something of a formal gathering of the outlining community: an e-mail list, forum, or web site. If you're a hard-core outliner, and any of Ted's proposal strikes you, [drop him a note](mailto:tgoranson@atpm.com?Subject=ATPO/Outlining community). Johann delivers a column on how a formerly-derided technology is now changing the way he interacts with his PowerBook and mobile phone. Tom provides a quick how-to on Apple's PhotoBooth, and Sylvester offers part deux of his music server series. Tom weighs in on Docktopus, which I'm still trying to figure out if I like or not. Lee convinces me the iFM, in its current state, isn't for me given my listening habits. Eric reviews a book I will have to take a serious look at, as well as the tome Rob read for this month's issue. Andrew delivers a double-shot of trackball reviews, with the X-Arcade, and my trackball of choice, the Logitech Trackman Wheel. (I have the corded version.) I'm not a gamer (and if I were, I'd probably use a console), so Andrew's concerns on using the Logitech for games is moot for me. Yours truly contributes some shots from the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Park, taken this past June on a family vacation, for this month's desktop pictures section. In this month's Cortland, the Lisa turns on her creators, while Cortland is rewarded for his forward-thinking when it comes to backups. Frisky talks about one of my favorite media apps, VLC, which I've been using to watch those episodes of Joey I've missed and had to download from the 'net, because the TiVo is recording someone else's shows during that time slot. As usual, you can download the latest issue in one of three flavors. Just don't spill the egg nog.