Tag Archives: StarWars

Friday Links: Why Do Programmers Work at Night?

• Why programmers work at night.
• Buzzfeed has an interview with the creators of the Live Action Toy Story video that was all the rage this week.
• “Aaron’s Law” introduced, would change computer law so violating Terms of Service isn’t a felony
• The Empire responds to the White House’s Deathstar response. Probably related White House raises the number of signatures needed to get a response to a petition.
• Writers strive to get science right, and a seal of approval.
• Disney builds 8-bit street in London to promote “Wreck-it Ralph.”
• 8 insights about the coming era of interactive design.
• Typographic Star Wars prints.
• The psychology of a well-designed business card.

Friday Links: Petition to Build a Death Star

• More than 26,000 signatures means the White House has to respond to the petition to build a Death Star.
• The University of Chicago got a package for Indiana Jones.
• Five design trends that will shape digital products in 2013.
• Anil Dash: The Web We Lost.
• Workplace Distractions: Why you can’t get anything done.
• Pantone Christmas Ornaments.
• The Museum of Mathematics opens in New York.
• From McSweeney’s: What your favorite classic NES video game says about you.
• Video: The science of productivity.

Wednesday Links: The World of Tolkien through Numbers

• Explore the world of Tolkien through numbers.
• What would realistic space battles look like?
• Something to add to your wishlist: A power-generating iPad rocking chair.
• Combat Kitcheware for all your combat/egg frying needs.
• The Atlantic takes a look at the brains of freestyle rappers. Super fascinating.
• Engadget apologizes to commenters for writer’s opinion.
• Has the internet gotten nice?
• Star Wars: The Ultimate Action Figure Collection, 35 Years of Characters.

Friday Links: The news that rocked the nerdosphere

• A few links on the news that rocked the nerdosphere this week: George Lucas donating Disney billions to education; How women can save the Star Wars franchise; Han Solo as one of Andy’s toys; and Darth Vader goes to Disneyland.
• Have you had your daily dose of cute animal pictures? If not, get thee to Cute Fight.
• Halo 4 executives are threatening to bring out the banhammer for sexism Xbox Live.
• This is fun. Seven best zoo ads.
• MPR’s Newscut reports that in the wake of Sandy in New York, old tech is making a comeback.
• 5 questions you can ask to learn about a company’s culture.
• Dr. Who/Madmen t-shirt mashup.
• From The New York Times: Hurricane Sandy timelapse.
• History of typefaces: Industrial-strength type.

Friday Links: Remembering Steve Jobs

• Today marks the one-year anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death. Apple has a sweet tribute.
• Why some technologies fail and others succeed.
• “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in one GIF. Semi-related: Every no in Star Wars.
• Every drink on Mad Men.
• Maybe Star Wars was so full of no because most of the citizens in the galaxy were probably illiterate.
• Brent Schoonover posts about illustrating The Nerdery’s Tweet of the Week.
• Get a cheaper iPhone 5 charger by skipping the 30-pin adapter.
• What if every person on earth aimed a laser pointer at the moon, would it change color?
• Oh, for cute. A series of pop-culture paper dolls.

Friday Links: Apple apologizes for Maps

• Apple CEO Tim Cook apologizes for its maps.
• Branded for life. Business Week takes a look at actors who are forever associated with the brands they represented in commercials, included the “Dude, you’re getting a Dell” guy.
• Color names by gender preference, based on the xkcd survey from awhile back.
• Why Instagram made their app worse.
• It would go well with the sleeping bag. Tauntaun hobby horse.
• What if Apple launched the iPhone 5 on Kickstarter?
• Tribute to dead logos.
• Nerdalicious Nintendo tributes.

Friday Links: The First Known Use of O.M.G.

• How YouTube lets companies claim NASA Mars’ Videos.
• One race, every medalist ever, an amazing infographic about just how fast Usain Bolt, and most Olympic sprinters, are.
• Little Techie: from the mind of a five-year-old tech geek.
• Famous logos & their pricetags.
• Earliest use of OMG? A letter to Winston Churchill.
• Science proves Luke Skywalker should have died in Tauntaun’s belly.
• The Minneapolis Egoist has a nice write up of our pals Sevnthsin.
• A t-shirt for the hipster nerds in your life: httpster.
• If you’ve never seen it, you should take a look at the advertising artwork of Dr. Seuss.

Friday Links: Why no one watches corporate ‘viral’ videos

• David Pogue of The New York Times lost his iPhone, the Gizmodo coverage of the saga is pretty amusing.
• StarWars Chewbacca messenger bag, not as furry or nerdy looking as you’d expect.
• How Minnesota changed breakfast.
• Why the letter Z is associated with sleep.
• Why no one watches your corporate “viral” video.
• Kottke has the graphing calculator story, which is much more interesting than it sounds.
• Test your movie knowledge by guessing the characters based solely on their iconic outfits.
• It’s punctuation season for political grammar nerds.

Unidentified object at the bottom of the Baltic looks suspiciously like the Millenium Falcon

Sure this story comes from The Daily Mail a questionable British tabloid. And sure the comments section question the ‘science’ of the story. But that doesn’t make the fact that an alleged UFO in the Baltic Sea looks like the Millenium Falcon any less hilarious, does it?

I didn’t think so.

StarWars That I Used To Know: A Hilarious Gotye parody

Seriously, just watch it so you can see the faux-George Lucas sing, “I think they should let it go or they’ll never get a StarWars that you used to know.” It’ll crack you up, even if you’re not a StarWars fan.