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More on the weather

adam — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:33:28 +0000

(Available here.)

Cello Wars

adam — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:08:08 +0000

For your holiday amusement:

Thanks, Jeff!

Star Wars, by George Lucas & Jean Paul Sarte

adam — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:55:18 +0000

Here’s your Friday dose of Star Wars. Leave the volume on, even if you don’t speak French. That way your over-achieving cube neighbors will be distracted, too.

So cute!

adam — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:27:02 +0000

There’s just something about skinny girls in pouffy skirts…and stormtrooper helmets.

More at http://redandjonny.tumblr.com/

Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

adam — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:03:23 +0000

NASA claims that:

At least four distinct plumes of water ice spew out from the south polar region of Saturn’s moon Enceladus in this dramatically illuminated image.

Light reflected off Saturn is illuminating the surface of the moon while the sun, almost directly behind Enceladus, is backlighting the plumes. See Bursting at the Seams to learn more about Enceladus and its plumes.

But they can’t fool me. That’s no moon, that’s a battle station.

Saltzer, Schroeder, and Star Wars

adam — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:39:22 +0000

When this blog was new, I did a series of posts on “The Security Principles of Saltzer and Schroeder,” illustrated with scenes from Star Wars.

When I migrated the blog, the archive page was re-ordered, and I’ve just taken a few minutes to clean that up. The easiest to read version is “Security Principles of Saltzer and Schroeder, illustrated with scenes from Star Wars.”

So if you’re not familiar with Saltzer and Schroeder:

Let me start by explaining who Saltzer and Schroeder are, and why I keep referring to them. Back when I was a baby in diapers, Jerome Saltzer and Michael Schoeder wrote a paper “The Protection of Information in Computer Systems.” That paper has been referred to as one of the most cited, least read works in computer security history. And look! I’m citing it, never having read it.

If you want to read it, the PDF version (484k) may be a good choice for printing. The bit that everyone knows about is the eight principles of design that they put forth. And it is these that I’ll illustrate using Star Wars. Because lets face it, illustrating statements like “This kind of arrangement is accomplished by providing, at the higher level, a list-oriented guard whose only purpose is to hand out temporary tickets which the lower level (ticket-oriented) guards will honor” using Star Wars is a tricky proposition. (I’d use the escape from the Millennium Falcon with Storm Trooper uniforms as tickets as a starting point, but its a bit of a stretch.)

Entering Our Prime

Richard — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:12:47 +0000

Today is amazingly enough the fifth anniversary of Adam starting this blog. It’s amazing how fast time flies when things are chaotic. Seems like just yesterday Adam was doing the initial Star Wars posts. Appropriately enough the most recent in the category was just this past Saturday. Thank you to all of our readers for making the last 5 years so much chaos and so much fun.

Just Singin’ In the Rain

adam — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:31:27 +0000

Click for JWZ’s image. Not sure of origin.

Leia With a Pearl Earring

adam — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:55:20 +0000

This and other less subtle Star Wars/classical art mashups are at Star Wars as Classic Art.
(Originally.)

Thanks, Stepto!

You Have Confused Me for the Last Time!

adam — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:16:54 +0000

I love these boots, via “BoingBoing gadgets.” They’re transgressive on so many levels. Star Wars geek versus fashion. Military versus sexy.

I’m glad George Lucas isn’t an obsessive control freak who hunts down anyone who adopts the visual language that he created.