IT Director for a non-profit in Washington, DC. Man About Internet.
John Guber of Daringfireball, Dan Moren and Jason Snell of Macworld discuss the finer points of the film, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" along with touching on Star Wars a few times in between. This is a must-listen for geeks.
Download episode 8 of "The Incomparable!": Top Men (64 minutes, 29 MB AAC file)
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Ken Murphy shot a time-lapse video of Muni construction in front of his house at Church and 30th Streets in San Francisco that shows “how to spend $3 million in just over 12 minutes”.
Vanity Fair takes a look at the new book The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back by J. W. Rinzler.
Out this month, the slick coffee-table tome The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back chronicles the complete tale—from pre-release to blockbuster success—of what’s become the fan favorite of the Star Wars series. Released in 1980, George Lucas’s Episode V pushed the boundaries of special effects and left audiences with one of cinema’s most epic cliffhangers.
via Daring Fireball
In the interests of science, the presenter from the BBC's "How We Shook the World" hits a droplet of nitro with a hammer, over and over again, in slow motion. I am enscienced!
Nitroglycerine Detonation Filmed in Slo-Mo - Explosions: How We Shook the World, Preview - BBC Four
Star Wars as Pulp Fiction created by Apasun at DeviantArt.
“Best Buddies”, a new TeeFurry t-shirt design by Chris Wahl.
“Cat Chat”, the latest episode of Simon’s Cat.
Update: There is now video taken by someone of just a few minutes of Depp's visit to the school.
It's not every day a Hollywood heart-throb pitches up in your classroom.
But these Greenwich schoolgoers left the rest of Britain's children - if not parents - green with envy when they had a surprise visit from Johnny Depp yesterday.
The star is currently in south-east London filming the fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean movie On Stranger Tides and arrived at the Meridian Primary School dressed in full character as Captain Jack Sparrow.
He made the one-off trip after nine-year-old pupil Beatrice Delap wrote to the star asking for help staging a 'mutiny' against the teachers, as he was filming at the nearby 18th century Old Naval College.
