What do we want?
Evidence-based policies!
When do we want them?
After peer review!

I’m stunned.

At last, someone understands me…

Why being grumpy at work is good for you — Quartz

“A key plot point in Rogue One is that the file size is so large that they need to commandeer a giant antenna and knock out a planetary shield in order to upload the files. But for some reason they can send regular communications just fine without doing either of those things?

What on earth is being stored on that magnetic tape cassette? Is it 5000 .bmp images loaded into slides in Powerpoint with accompanying animations? Why is DEATH_STAR_final_final__FINAL.dwg.doc.gif.pdf so big?”

From Tape Drives to Memory Orbs, the Data Formats of Star Wars Suck (Spoilers)
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-disk-formats-of-star-wars-rogue-one-spoilers

My Windows Rumspringa: A Mac User Switches to Windows
http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/01/windows-vs-macos-drunken-carnival-vs-sterile-art-gallery.html
via Instapaper

This Shanghai Factory Plans to Replace All of Its Human Workers – Motherboard

Maybe I’d have been a nurse or an astronaut but this place is now home.

Eric S. Raymond says you probably fit one of eight tech archetypes • The Register

It’s a bit like astrological signs for geeks.

Beautifully-shot video of a box being made / Boing Boing