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Heilemann, who has been writing about Star Wars for years and is a self-proclaimed Star Wars historian, jotted down his thoughts on the deal and he agrees with me: On second glance, it’s a staggering deal. Remember, this isn’t ‘simply’ Star Wars; it’s all of Lucasfilm, including the Indiana Jones franchise, and films like Willow…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] So: Dude sings a song at a talent show-thingy, puts it up on his YouTube channel (there are a lot of fakes), everyone says he’ll be the next Bieber, Ellen sees it, has him on her show. Stardom awaits. But wait, did you catch the brilliant move that Ellen is now doing?…

Make no mistake, Crichton’s posthumously published Pirate Latitudes is an adventure book. This book has everything you’d expect in a pirate adventure; pirates, warships, KRAKEN!, cannons, lewd women, drunken brawls, and hurricanes. However it still manages to lack a certain sense of wonder or tension. This may perhaps be because of popularity of Pirates of…

I recently finished reading Prey by Michael Crichton. I’m a big Crichton fan for nearly no other reason than because my first book that I ever read, on my own without the nagging of any teachers or parents, was Jurassic Park. That and he knows how to write a book that makes you want to…

Well, this sucks. I’ve only written about Michael Crichton, or his work, [a few times](http://cdevroe.com/?s=michael crichton) – but let me be the first to say that I am a huge fan of everything he had done professionally.  When Kyle linked me to this article I admit that I was immediately saddened by the news. Michael…

I have always enjoyed Michael Crichton’s writing style. He tends to write in blocks of thoughts and actions, uses new lines to emphasize something that the character feels is important, and jams just enough raw data into his books to make them real, but not enough to turn off most readers. Airframe was written very…

Even though I read State of Fear a few months ago, I thought I’d jot down my overall thoughts of the book. As you might notice, I read nearly all of Crichton’s works, so even though the subject matter for this book isn’t particularly interesting to me, I read it because Crichton wrote it. I’m…

REJECTED! You’ve got a love these script spoofs that have been popping up lately.  Recently we saw The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull parodied, and now we’re seeing the upcoming Batman epic flick The Dark Knight being written as if Michael Bay were set to write, produce, and direct it. There are some gems in…

Paddelfahrrad is German for “paddle bike”. Kai Eggemann and Michael Meyer-Coors created a prototype paddle bike and it works pretty well. Supposedly they are moving forward on making these through start-up funding and crowd funding. Good for those two. Fun thing to work on. /via Paddling.net

Jurassic Park was the first book that I read because I wanted to rather than because I had to. I was 11 when I read the book and 12 when the movie was released 22 years ago. I remember going opening weekend with family who had read the book. Since then I’ve been a lifelong…

Joe Cieplinski, on his blog, writing about the press surrounding the launch of Fantastical 2 for Mac — which I recommend you grab a copy of: It’s brilliant. And it obviously works. But only because it’s genuine. And only because he’s willing to put in that time. That incredible amount of time. Not coding. Not…

Michael Johnston for the Flipboard Engineering blog: Most modern mobile devices have hardware-accelerated canvas, so why couldn’t we take advantage of this? HTML5 games certainly do. But could we really develop an application user interface in canvas? Expect to read a lot about this over the next several months as the pros and cons are…

This is a bookmarklet that I wish I had written. But Michael Wheeler has beat me to it: For those who find themselves wanting to pop a YouTube video out into its own window, this is the tool for you. Using the bookmarklet below, you can pop a YouTube video out into a resizable window…

As if I needed more fodder to convince myself as to why I shut off all notifications on my phone, tablet, and computer. Clay Shirky wrote an excellent piece on Medium about why he has changed his mind and now asks his students to close their laptops and put away their phones. Here is a…

Kyle and I spent the weekend setting up the first coworking space in Scranton, PA — Coalwork. We’ve been working on this for over a year. Not just us two but other members of the coworking community such as Nick Semon, Bruno Galvao, Michael O’Boyle, and Joe Casabona. I’m very glad to finally be seeing all…

Update from yesterday. She was surprised. 😉 We’re in! Coalwork, the coworking group, podcast, blog, and community that Kyle and I founded over a year ago finally has a place to call home in downtown Scranton. This is Scranton’s first official coworking spot. I am totally stoked. Not only to see this finally happening but…

Great post going over the anatomy of Smaug. It seems Smaug changed from one release to another. Keen eyes. /via Michael Heilemann on Twitter.

My good friend Gary Vaynerchuk chose your’s truly as #4 of 19 people he thinks should be followed on Twitter. He says of me:  his new project is something that I think has the real chance of blowing up in 2014. Keep an eye on him. I think he’s a great follow and someone who’s…

I enjoyed this interview of Quentin Tarantino in the NY Times. Especially this bit on Page 5: I remember reading a review that Pauline Kael wrote about some director’s big epic, and she said: Now, look, it might seem unfair to judge a talented man more harshly when he tries to do something big than…

Michael Lopp: In my years at Apple, the Caffe Macs chatter about Forstall was that he was the only legit successor to Jobs because he displayed a variety of Jobsian characteristics. Comparing anyone to Steve Jobs is a tall order but Lopp does a good job in his most recent piece about innovation being a…

MG Seigler compares the weights of some leading e-readers, phones, and tablets to visualize where the iPad Mini, or Air, may stack up: As you can see, this new iPad would be closest to the Kindle with a keyboard in weight. It would weigh noticeably less than a Nexus 7. It would weigh less than…