Dan Jones

Richard Evans rendered some of the best-known Studio Ghibli characters in pixel art style.

Paul Ford set himself the task of picking five great works of software and he came up with Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Pac-Man, Unix, and Emacs.

I propose a different kind of software canon: Not about specific moments in time, or about a specific product, but rather about works of technology that transcend the upgrade cycle, adapting to changing rhythms and new ideas, often over decades.

As with everything Paul writes, it's worth clicking through to read the rest.

We started the forekast.com beta testing last week and it’s going great so far –lots of feedback and great ideas.  If you missed it last time, be sure to check it out and leave your email if you’re interested!

Enid v. The Lingo

4/25/2014

I had the opportunity to talk to Scott Hales and ask him some questions about his hilarious and award-winning comic

Enid vs.The Smiley People

4/20/2014

thegardenofenid:

Enid vs. Scout Sunday

12/27/2013

Fight the power, Sister.

thegardenofenid:

Enid vs. Scratchboard Theology

2/26/2014

Amen

Several pizza's stacked into a cake.

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Scooby-Doo and the gang wouldn’t be the same without their trusty Mystery Machine. Cosplayer Lyght Strife decided to take the colors from the familiar vehicle and transform it into a set of Iron Man armor, and it totally works. His friend Desiree Cosplay joined in on the fun by becoming Velma, and the duo took their creative costumes to Wizard World St. Louis!

Photo by BackBeat-Photography.

See a couple more pics after the break.

Photo by BackBeat-Photography.

Photo by Thomas G. Ricks.

Thanks for the tip, Desiree! Send your cosplay pics to tips@fashionablygeek.com.

Twenty years ago the US Government’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) designated government owned land in Nevada for conservation of

Your move, Google.

Some people:

me:

Jesus says:

I was hoping to write out some long, eloquent thing for Easter, but I’m struggling today and I couldn’t think of what to say. So I said a prayer for help, and I just felt a comforting embrace and I knew He was with me. That is what Easter is for me- a reminder that because of the Savior, we are never far from comfort. Because of His atonement, He knows all of our pain and all of our struggles. He felt them first.  Because of Him, we are never alone.

It’s okay to have a weird laugh.

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Time Out polled more than 100 experts to find the 100 best animated movies. Here's the top 10 (minus the top pick...you'll have to click through for that):

10. Fantastic Mr. Fox
9. The Nightmare Before Christmas
8. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
7. The Iron Giant
6. Dumbo
5. The Incredibles
4. Toy Story
3. My Neighbor Totoro
2. Spirited Away

I'm delighted to see Fantastic Mr Fox on the list...it's an underrated effort by Wes Anderson that will continue to grow in esteem as the years pass. No Wall-E in the top 10 though? I don't know about that. It clocks in at #36, behind Chicken Run (the least of Aardman's efforts in my mind) and Up, which is maybe my least favorite Pixar film. (via @garymross)

NASA astronaut Steve Swanson recently posted the first Instagram from space. Yes, even astronauts take selfies (hey, it probably gets boring up there). He’s posed in the International Space Station, and you can see Earth behind him. That’s all awesome, but please note the t-shirt he’s wearing. It features Serenity and says “Shipping & Logistics: Everything’s Shiny.” (A white or silver version of the shirt is available here).

And the Firefly design isn’t the only geeky tee he brought on board; he also snapped a selfie while donning a Star Trek t-shirt with the Klingon Empire symbol. Yes, he is that cool

See the Klingon tee after the break.

See more on the ISS Instagram feed.

(Universe Today via io9)

See the entire graphic after the break…

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Why can't I edit my tweets?! Twitter should allow that.

It's so simple right? CRUD apps (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) are app-building 101! What a gross oversight. But wait. Just as a fun nerdy little exercise, let's think about what a feature like this might take for the Twitter team. I don't work there or have any inside knowledge, so this is all hypothetical for the sake of understanding app development.

• Should you be able to edit any tweet you've ever tweeted at any time?
• Or should you just have a few minutes to do it until it locks?
• Do you offer this to everyone? Opt-in? Opt-out?
• Should you be able to edit tweets or direct messages also?
• What does it look like to edit a tweet? Can it be simple and obvious? Does it need additional UI? How do you expose that UI? Is it worth the extra UI?
• Does the tweet go out to the public timeline immediately or after the editing grace period?
• What if someone favorites a tweet and it is later edited? Does it shed the favorites? E.g. a tweet that originally said "I like pancakes!" could be later edited to "People that favorited this like clubbing seals!" (or much worse).
• Same question, with retweets. And with replies.
• Are there any social or moral implications of this?
• How does tweet editing affect the overall feel of using Twitter? Would a time delay affect that feel? Would people think of tweets differently?
• Does tweet editing make hacked accounts an even more dangerous prospect?
• How do third party clients handle tweet editing? Is there a public API for it? How complex is that?
• Or do you only offer tweet editing through the web? How does that move go over with developers?
• How do you ensure third party editing offers an up-to-par UX? Does that matter?
• If tweets aren't time-delayed, how do you handle edited tweets through the API? - How do you tell third-party clients to update a tweet they are currently displaying rather than show a new one?
• Where do edited tweets go? Back on top of the timeline, or stay where they are?
• Should it be visually displayed that a tweet has been edited? How do you enforce that in third-party apps?
• Are there legal implications here? What if someone tweets something illegal and then changes it to something legal?
• Does tweet editing open up any kind of bad guy behavior? What kind of mis-use can be expected?
• What are the infrastructural concerns? Are all revisions saved? How much additional web server and database load is this?
• Do you throttle editing like you presumably do for tweet creation?
• How actually requested is this feature? Is it just a vocal minority?
• What's in it for Twitter if they go down this path? Happier users? Is that a guarantee?
• How much time, effort, and money is this going to take? (Design, development, UX, testing, etc) Are they prepared to support this for the life of the product?
• Is the team into the idea or would it be grueling and not-fun?

We could probably double that list on our own and that's just looking from the outside. Software is tough. Being smart and responsible with the features of that software is even tougher.

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