If this is a joke or a spoof then someone is leaving it rather late in the day to spring a surprise on us all: If the universe somehow arranged for a time traveller to pay a visit to young George Lucas just before he started filming Star Wars and show him that video[note]And stuck… Continue reading George Lucas Astride a Mountain of Cash
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Trek Tech Manuals (continued)…
Dan Hon, helpfully filling in some blanks in Starfleet’s documentation: Reporting Security Issues on the Federation Starship USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D… Keeping Your LCARS Account Secure Federation LCARS computer systems use a sophisticated n-factor authentication system to allow access to ship systems. Permissions are role and context based with an underlying entitlement system. In the interests… Continue reading Trek Tech Manuals (continued)…
Shame!
What he said: There’s a shortage of perfect movies in this world. It would be a pity to damage this one. https://t.co/5N8Q3P2e5G — Cary Elwes (@Cary_Elwes) September 18, 2019 [Via Tor.com]
iPad Borg?
One day I’m going to have to[note]I say ‘have to’ in the sense that Apple’s incessant tweaking of their product lines will once more strand the iPad Mini line far enough away from Apple’s main line of iPads that I strongly suspect I’ll find myself faced with a range of iPad Pro-branded models to choose… Continue reading iPad Borg?
Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhh!
For some bizarre reason my copy of WordPress insists on truncating the post I’ve just made to http://soreeyes.org/2019/09/a-tool-using-animal/. I will probably be experimenting with alternative themes and so on over the next few hours until I get to the bottom of this. The entire post shows up just fine in preview, but is horribly truncated… Continue reading Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhh!
A Tool Using Animal
Reading Wired’s Fans Are Better Than Tech at Organizing Information Online… At a time when we’re trying to figure out how to make the internet livable for humans, without exploiting other humans in the process, AO3 (AO3, to its friends) offers something the rest of tech could learn from. … mostly served to remind me… Continue reading A Tool Using Animal
The Hooded Swan series
James Nicoll reminds us of Brian M. Stableford’s Hooded Swan series, which I adored back in the late 1970/early 1980s: The Hooded Swan stories are gloomy and morose to the point of parody. If it were possible for space to be overcast and drizzling, it would be so everywhere Grainger goes. I have to confess… Continue reading The Hooded Swan series
Looking at history
Version Museum concentrates on the look of applications more than it does the story behind that redesign. Version Museum showcases the visual history of popular websites, operating systems, applications, and games that have shaped our lives. Much like walking through a real-life museum, this site focuses on the design changes of historic versions of technology,… Continue reading Looking at history
I demand an Old Night spin-off
It’s a real shame that The OA reportedly won’t be returning for a third season: Farewell to The OA, the Netflix series created by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij and starring Marling, which lasted two ambitious, lopsided seasons. It told a story of alternate realities to which characters could travel by working through the rejected… Continue reading I demand an Old Night spin-off
Stormy Weather
Vorticity 2 is one crazy impressive piece of work. Demands to be seen on the largest screen (with the most capable sound system) that you can get access to. At times, as the lightning made an appearance, I full expected to see a mighty God of Thunder arriving, loudly demanding, “Bring me Thanos!” [Via Kottke.org]