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I won’t give it away (spoilers suck), but if 1) you have already seen the “BSG - Razor” TV movie or 2) don’t care about spoilers, by all means play the movie.

It makes my geeky heart go a-flutter. I’d be lying if told you it didn’t send chills down my back…

A very important question was raised on kottke.org last week -
Let’s say you’re a new father and a movie fan. When your child is of an appropriate age to start watching movies, in which order will you show him/her the six Star Wars movies? By original release date (Star Wars, Empire, Jedi, Phantom Menace, Clones, [...]

…or, “My Mac Conversion”
Background
As I had posted previously, my good friend Bob gave me his old Apple Powerbook G4 12″ back in January. I had wanted a Mac for years, but was a dedicated Windows user (I also ran both Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux, but they were secondary machines). Windows had [...]

From The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
He’s got 100 Macs in his basement, including 30 Mac Classics and 18 original iMacs, as well as both a Lisa and a 20th Anniversary Macintosh. And these aren’t just sitting around on shelves with cords all over the place– oh no. These are set up just as Jobs would want [...]

This is cool in the very geekiest sense of “cool”. From Ars Technica:
One of the big draws of OS X has always been the UNIX-like, BSD heritage of the operating system. Apple has always touted OS X as UNIX-based and played up the security, stability, and compatibility that comes with the BSD foundation. The company [...]

From Wired.com:
2. Schrödinger’s cat
A cat is trapped in a box with radioactive material, a Geiger counter, and a mechanism rigged to release poison if particle decay is detected. According to Erwin Schrödinger, the cat exists in two probable states. But that doesn’t track with reality (cats are not both alive and dead). Proposed in 1935, [...]

From WTF:

Wow! This is so cool…from Wikipedia:
Blue field entoptic phenomenon
The blue field entoptic phenomenon or Scheerer’s phenomenon is the appearance of tiny bright dots moving quickly along squiggly lines in the visual field, especially when looking into blue light (such as the sky). This is a normal effect that can be perceived by almost everybody. [...]