Variety.com - Reviews - Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith

Entertaining from start to finish and even enthralling at times, “Sith” has some acting worth writing home about, specifically McDiarmid’s dominant turn as the mastermind of the evil empire. McGregor remains a steady presence, and both Portman and Christensen have loosened up since “Clones” to acceptable, if hardly inspired, levels. Expressiveness of the digitally animated Yoda, voiced as always by Frank OzFrank Oz, is amazing.

They love it:

The fact is that since the version 2.0 of Sauce Reader I’m unable to publish to my blog (blogger) with the builtin tool and that was the main reason for me to use it.

 

They love it not:

Anyway - Sauce Reader is back on my desktop, and I have the lovely red dots to go with it.  Long live Sauce Reader.

 

 

http://thesebeautifulscars.tripod.com/writinglinks.html

 

I am sure this has been posted all over the net by now but I think this is a great use for an otherwise very limited product.

 

GTD Tiddly Wiki is a GettingThingsDone adaptation by NathanBowers of JeremyRuston’s Open Source TiddlyWiki. The purpose of GTD Tiddly Wiki is to give users a single repository for their GTD lists and support materials so they can create/edit lists, and then print directly to 3x5 cards for use with the HipsterPDA.

 

http://shared.snapgrid.com/gtd_tiddlywiki.html

Though the new “Star Wars” movie ends with Luke Skywalker as a baby, the Jedi knight grew up a long time ago. 

Since immortalizing Skywalker, actor Mark Hamill, now 53, has spent most of his time working on Broadway (”Amadeus,” “The Elephant Man,” “Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks”) and doing cartoon voice-overs.

via [Yahoo! News]

Of the more than 130 planets found around distant stars, a large number have highly elliptical orbits, crazy oblong shapes that have surprised theorists who try to explain the configurations with near collisions or perturbing disks of gas.
  

An elliptic orbit is characterized by the eccentricity, which is how much a planet’s distance from its star varies as it carves out a year. Most of the planets in our solar system have relatively low eccentricities, less than about 5 percent (tiny Pluto being a notable exception and considered not really a planet by some astronomers).

via [Yahoo! News]

If Jessica Rabbit gave you wood then wait till you lay eyes on the creations of Rion Vernon at Pinuptoons.com

Micheal Kizer has created a keyboard commands cheat sheet for those of us who love Sauce Reader! It comes in two flavors: MS Word 2000, and Adobe PDF.

Microsoft Word 2000 format:
SharpReader_Keyboard_wide.DOC

Adobe PDF version:
SharpReader_Keyboard_wide.PDF

Atom Smasher Windows Error Message Generator. Like you don’t get enough of those already.

For years people used their dominion over nature to prevent forest fires, until disaster struck and people realized that what they had actually prevented was the earth’s natural street-sweeper, fire, from doing its job–burning away the underbrush.

The scientists were wrong; they got better. But isn’t it just as likely today that they are wrong–just plain wrong–about some of the absolutes like; global-warming, global-cooling, globla-dimming, global-brightening, and global-blah-dee-blah? Why sure it is. Take the following article for example.
news @ nature.com�-�Clear skies end global dimming�-�Earth’s air is cleaner, but this may worsen the greenhouse effect.

Reductions in industrial emissions in many countries, along with the use of particulate filters for car exhausts and smoke stacks, seem to have reduced the amount of dirt in the atmosphere and made the sky more transparent.

That sounds like very good news. But