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My iOS 10 Wishlist

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Every year right around WWDC time, I get extremely excited to see what changes are coming to Apple’s software platforms. While I have the great fortune and pleasure to use a Mac for both work and play, and still love what the Mac’s hardware and software provides me in both those areas, my real joy on WWDC keynote day […]

Watch Out

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Ever since the Apple Watch was announced, I’ve thought a lot about whether or not I’d want one. Okay, whether or not I realistically would want one. As an über nerd, of course I’m going to want something that shiny and beautiful, but I wasn’t sure whether or not it was actually a device that […]

WWDC 2014 Predictions!

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I thought I’d try something new this year, and put out a call to Twitter, asking my fellow Mac nerds to handwrite their WWDC 2014 predictions, as inspired by Stephen Hackett’s excellent 512 Pixels post, and using the #WWDCNotes hashtag. Here are my predictions, as well as others I received:

Archival Footage: Troy

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 For Honor.  For Victory.  Seriously, For Some Actual History. Troy is a fictionalized account of an event, which is not yet verified as historical, so it’s weird that it is making an appearance in a history blog, right?  A little, yes.  However, it really does have value in the study of history.  While Homer’s Iliad(and […]

Archival Footage: 300

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Prepare for glory and leather briefs. There are a lot of reasons that 300 is a unique film–dramatic cinematography, dynamic fight choreography, excessive use of leather tighties–but probably one of the least cited reasons is the historical accuracy. Wait, what? Historically accurate? Actually, yes–the story of Leonidas, and his 300 Spartans is true. At least, […]

Archival Footage: Gladiator

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The general who didn’t really exist. The emperor who liked to pretend he was a gladiator, and went kind of crazy. Maximus… Maximus… was fictional. No matter how handsome Russell Crowe would lead us to believe he was, he simply did not exist. The naughty emperor, Commodus, however, was all too real, and it’s worth […]