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A friend of mine, Daniel McNicoll, just finished directing a film with Galatia Films. In this film, they interview legendary Sword Master Bob Anderson preformed and choreographed all the Lightsaber duels for the original Star Wars trilogy. Both he and skilled martial artists along with the highly accomplished Viggo Mortensen are in this film. It looks great, as you can see by the trailer.

If you like this film (how can you not?!), help us get the word out.

Reclaiming the Blade on Digg

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While browsing the net, I started reading the "Code of Conduct" pages for several Linux distributions. It's interesting to see exactly why a distribution was created and what drives developers to contribute to them. Here's a short list, and feel free to post comments with links to other distros to be added.

Gentoo - http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/philosophy.xml
Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct
Fedora - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/index.html#sn-Welcome
Exherbo - http://exherbo.org/
OpenSUSE - http://en.opensuse.org/Guiding_Principles
Slackware - http://www.slackbook.org/html/introduction-slackware.html
Debian - http://www.debian.org/social_contract
Freespire - http://wiki.freespire.org/index.php/Freespire_Project_Vision_Statement
Arch - http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way

[EDIT 5/20/08 - 11:36 PM] Added Slackware and Debian
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When one of my friends came up to Clemson this summer, he brought a belated birthday gift. At first, I thought it was some sort of notebook. When I realized what it was, I nearly died laughing. He said his dad found it in storage, and gave it to him. The friend knew that I would be the only one to appreciate something like this, and what would be a better gift for me two weeks late?

That's huge!

It was an eight inch "High Capacity Flexible Disk Cartridge". The disk holds a monstrous 10 ... [Read more]