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I want one… if it runs OS X that is (thanks Joen).
I like nice words, and I couldn’t help reprinting this sentence:
Perhaps no journalist is so admired by his peers, in part because he has actually pulled off the life we imagined our profession would afford. Dashing off 1,000 épater le bourgeois words before a two-bottle lunch, blagging through war-zone checkpoints, starry parties, whisky-fuelled late-night geo-politics and crackling media feuds. Yet as most of hackdom has knuckled down to colourless, desk-bound sobriety, there is Hitchens, still larging it, a 3-D cartoon of what we might all have been, given his ego and intellect, his brass neck and neoprene liver. #
And of course this snippet:
But Hitchens is never far below boiling point. He is an evangelical secularist, an atheist warlord.
Nice.
I would love to just quote the entire thing verbatim, as it is a great piece of writing. At least if you happen to be an evangelical secularist. If on the other hand you find yourself on the side that believes in the great-eye-in-the-sky… not so much.
Not that I thought I had a chance, what with all the real fanatics out there (ahem), but I submitted a childhood photo of me posing behind my precious Star Wars figures to the Wired ‘Fandom Fever’ group on Flickr, as part of their Star Wars anniversary line-up (which is mostly older stuff unfortunately).
Anyway, thanks to some slim pickings, there I am, on Wired.com.
The 30th anniversary of Star Wars is tomorrow, Friday the 25th of May. I’m bogged down in work, family responsibilities and K2ness, so I’m afraid I haven’t been able to deliver quite the ode to Star Wars I would have liked to, nor even sit down with some popcorn and A New Hope. Sorry for that; more for myself than for you.
But, what I can do though, is point you to some pretty cool things that are going on just now, in relation to Star Wars, and then hope against hope that I will have the time to write my appreciation piece as soon as possible. Most notably, you should check out the Lucas Online Celebration IV Blog as well as the accompanying Flickr stream which has some damn nice artful Vader helmets right now (some more shots of those, as done by The Vader Project).
Wired, which is quite Star Wars-centric when it comes down to it, has posted (and will be posting I think) several pieces. A look at Steve Sansweet’s comprehensive Star Wars collection, a look at the psychology of Anakin Skywalker, a word about 5-25-77, a documentary about ‘the first time’ and finally words from a guy who watches Star Wars for the first time ever (and has a few harsh words to throw its way, even if he does get Lucas’ best film wrong; if it isn’t Star Wars, it’s THX 1138, no competition :)).
And as a small bonus, I thought these papercraft AT-AT’s were pretty nice as well, even though I’m sick and tired of the papercraft this-and-that wave
PS: Yes, there is a European Celebration being held in London in mid-July! When is that Metallica concert I’m going to? Oh, that’s right, in mid-July… DOH!
PPS: If you come across some nice pieces, or if you write one yourself, let me know.
Update: I’m going to add stuff here as I come across it.
So Technorati redesigned recently. Generally speaking I’m not much of a fan of the candy-drop look, but I in particular cannot fathom why they would add a ticker, which inelegantly flickers across the top of the site, displaying tags (such as, and I quote: “free porn”).
Very helpful… No wait, that other thing… Yes.
I too thought we killed the Marquee tag, and no I don’t generally have much use for Technorati, but when I do finally go there I don’t want to be distracted by a damn ticker! So I threw together a very simple stylesheet and put it on userstyles.org, which, if you’ve got Stylish extension or Greasemonkey installed, you can go right ahead and install without a hitch.
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