Absolutely No Machete Juggling – The Star Wars Saga: Suggested Viewing Order

Now I’d like to mod­ify this into what I’ve named Machete Order on the off chance that this catches on because I’m a vain asshole.

Next time you want to in­tro­duce some­one to Star Wars for the first time, watch the films with them in this order: IV, V, II, IIIVI

Notice some­thing? Yeah, Episode I is gone.

via Absolutely No Machete Jug­gling – The Star Wars Saga: Sug­gested View­ing Order. Really enjoy­ing this idea, going to try it out I think this week­end, as I’m due for a Star Wars marathon. The argu­ments in favor are really strong, both in terms of the order and in throw­ing out *shud­der* The Phan­tom Menace.


Mailinator™ Blog – How Mailinator compresses email by 90%

A fun jour­ney through algo­rithms to find a solu­tion to get­ting some awe­some com­pres­sion stats.


ArsTechnica – High Orbits and Slowlorises: understanding the Anonymous attack tools

Fas­ci­nat­ing look into both some of the tools Anony­mous uses to launch it’s attacks and how it/they attempt to stay anonymous.


Frankie Roberto – Responsive Text

In agree­ment, nifty idea, but defi­antly unsure of the prac­ti­cal application.


Backups, Automated and Off Site

One of the biggest issues in run­ning a server is mak­ing sure if every­thing dis­ap­pears you can be up and run­ning as quickly as pos­si­ble. So how do I do it?


Incubaid Research – Rediscovering the RSync Algorithm

The right way to synch two remote file systems.


Tinycon — Favicon Alerts

Pretty sure I could count the num­ber of times I actu­ally looked at a fav­i­con alert on one hand, that being said nice work.