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The Empire Strikes Backstage

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:26:00 -0400

The Empire Strikes Backstage:

Candid photos from the sets of one of the World’s Perfect Movies. (oh, and a few from Return of the Jedi).

h/t Shawn Blanc

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Thu, 17 May 2012 09:39:40 -0400

Letter Of Note of the Day

Thu, 17 May 2012 09:11:15 -0400

Letter Of Note of the Day:

There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.

Aaron Sorkin To Adapt Official Steve Jobs Biopic For Sony

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:29:44 -0400

Aaron Sorkin To Adapt Official Steve Jobs Biopic For Sony:

Oft rumored, now official. There are huge problems with the biography, though, which I’m not certain even Sorkin can overcome. But I’m cautiously optimistic about this, if for no other reason than it’s another Sorkin thing to watch.

toysofthe80s: 1980s Sesame Street Poppin Pals Baby Toy

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:14:53 -0400

toysofthe80s:

1980s Sesame Street Poppin Pals Baby Toy

The Legend of the Flying WV

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:31:42 -0400

The Legend of the Flying WV:

How the now-iconic logo for West Virginia University was born.

/via quipsologies

Novel Constructions

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:28:25 -0400

Novel Constructions:

Designing a beautiful typeface. From the creator. So good.

"[H]igh school graduation provides the first stark reminder that nothing, even the things we love,..."

Mon, 14 May 2012 15:42:00 -0400

“[H]igh school graduation provides the first stark reminder that nothing, even the things we love, lasts forever. Sometimes they don’t even last for long.”

- Keith Phipps

Friday Night Lights' Best Moments

Sun, 13 May 2012 21:12:00 -0400

Friday Night Lights' Best Moments:

The great Alan Sepinwall looks back at “Friday Night Lights,” which we have been going through as a family on Netflix, and finished with the very satisfying series finale tonight. Hard to say ‘best tv show ever’ with so many ones to choose from (cough Sorkin cough), but FNL will make the cut on the shortest of my lists. Some wonderful moments of drama, with just note-on-perfect acting and writing. Everything you want from a 1-hour serial drama.

ldap_synch

Fri, 11 May 2012 20:24:32 -0400

ldap_synch:

One-way sync of users from an ldap database to Drupal

Nagios Views

Fri, 11 May 2012 06:39:29 -0400

Nagios Views

Monday Thru Friday: The Illusion of Choice

Thu, 10 May 2012 10:08:23 -0400

Monday Thru Friday: The Illusion of Choice:

How Coca-Cola, Pepsico, Johnson & Johnson, Nestle, Unilever, Proctor & Gamble, Mars, and General Mills are really the only choices you have.

‘Wolfenstein 3D’ Released for Browser for 20th Anniversary

Wed, 09 May 2012 11:14:42 -0400

‘Wolfenstein 3D’ Released for Browser for 20th Anniversary

Interracial marriage was illegal in NC until 1971. Nineteen...

Wed, 09 May 2012 10:45:16 -0400

Interracial marriage was illegal in NC until 1971. Nineteen Seventy One! So I’m not too worried about the hatred that is now law in North Carolina. It’s just that they’re about 80 years behind us.

Mom, you’re just jealous, it’s the Beastie...

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:24:59 -0400

Mom, you’re just jealous, it’s the Beastie Boys.

h/t @coverville

High Caffeine Content: 2007's pre-M3 version of Android; the Google Sooner

Mon, 07 May 2012 13:44:07 -0400

High Caffeine Content: 2007's pre-M3 version of Android; the Google Sooner:

Steven Troughton Smith gets some time with the earliest-known Android device: The HTC EXCA 300, running a pre-M(ilestone)3 version of Android.

Interesting, but not really surprising. The device is obviously meant to compete against the Symbian and E-series Nokia devices and the Blackberry devices. Half-keyboard, half (non-touch) screen. The build date on the software is 15 May 2007 — four months after the announcement of the original iPhone.

Automator workflow of the month: Automate app backups | Macworld

Mon, 07 May 2012 13:16:50 -0400

Automator workflow of the month: Automate app backups | Macworld:

This is a very nice use of Automator by Chris Breen: Automatically backup iOS apps as the new versions come in to iTunes.

I’ve replaced the sequential names with a date-based renaming so there’s no duplicates, then combined this with Dropbox and Hazel to move these backups to a Drobo on a different machine.

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Mon, 07 May 2012 10:34:46 -0400

Read The Inspirational Note Given To Every Apple Employee On Their First Day

Mon, 07 May 2012 09:08:43 -0400

Read The Inspirational Note Given To Every Apple Employee On Their First Day:

Imagine that. Being inspired at your place of work. This is completely foreign to me.

People don’t come here to play it safe. They come here to swim in the deep end.

"If modern science has learned anything in the past century, it is to distrust anecdotal evidence...."

Sun, 06 May 2012 11:04:48 -0400

“If modern science has learned anything in the past century, it is to distrust anecdotal evidence. Because anecdotes have a very strong emotional impact, they serve to keep superstitious beliefs alive in an age of science. The most important discovery of modern medicine is not vaccines or antibiotics, it is the randomized double-blind test, by means of which we know what works and what doesn’t. Contrary to the saying, “data” is not the plural of “anecdote.””

- Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science