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Hey, did you hear there’s a new Star Wars movie coming out? In case you’re unclear on the details, Google’s new Search Easter Egg will help remind you.
If you search for ‘a long time ago in a galaxy far far away’, Google will display the up-to-date, clickable search results in opening crawl style. And yes, there is music.
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Google’s Got a Fantastic New Star Wars Easter Egg
Poor birdie. If you ever wondered what would happen if an airplane and a bird hit each other head on, here it is. It doesn’t end up exactly how you think it would. Well, it kind of does as in the bird loses but it is a little surprising in how high and straight the bird bounces in the air after hitting the nose of the jet. Poor birdie.
You know, it’s too bad that the folks who made Superman III did such a crap job. It had so many cool ideas. As a kid I loved that Clark Kent and Superman battled each other. I…
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Superman III: From Horrible to Horror
A strong leader knows that different team members often require different communication tactics, and the “DiSC” behavior assessment system might help you speak everyone’s language and get through to them.
The DiSC behavior assessment is based on the theories of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and it centers on four major behavioral traits that everyone has on some level in the workplace: dominance, influence, compliance, and steadiness. The graphic below from Eastern Nazarene College’s business management masters program explains how to determine what behavioral traits your team members have, how they prefer to work and communicate, and most importantly, how to provide feedback to each type of person. For example, if you’re dealing with someone that has a lot of dominance (they’re competitive, decisive, and independent), direct compliments are a great way to praise them and criticism needs to be very specific. Check it out below to learn more.
Using DiSC Assessments to Become a Better Leader | Eastern Nazarene College
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Learn How to Lead Different Types of Individuals With the “DiSC” System
The crew of the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower showed that they’re just as excited as us for Star Wars: The Force Awakens with this parody of the movie’s teaser. Can you still call it a sweded trailer if it has actual fighter planes in it?
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Sea Wars: The Ike Awakens
We’ve seen Darth Vader as an evil Imperial enforcer and we have also seen him redeemed as a force ghost. As far as I’m concerned the prequels didn’t happen, so we DID NOT see him as a…
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Darth Vader in Everyday Life
To celebrate the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Google has put together a set of skins for its apps which let you demonstrate your allegiance to either the light or dark side.
The tweaks to Google apps include new Gmail backgrounds, a YouTube progress that looks like a light saver, a Maps positions marker that resembles a TIE fighter or X-Wing, and a bunch more subtle tweaks in Chrome, Translate, Chromecast and the like. We prefer the dark side, though we’re not sure what it says about us.
Guaranteed fun, for at least a few minutes. In fact, it’s kind of reminiscent of the custom options you used to get on Windows, where your swapped alert sounds for train whistles and that kind of thing.
Anyway, you can go choose your side now.
[Google]
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Google Lets You Re-Skin Its Apps Using Light or Dark Side Star Wars Themes
MySQL Server 5.7 was released around a month ago, and download numbers show huge interest in upgrading from older MySQL releases. As with any product that is frequently used as core infrastructure in complex systems with numerous interdependencies, major version upgrades of MySQL should be approached with some care. In this post, I will cover […]
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Upgrading to MySQL 5.7 Using the MySQL Repos for Linux
Build one (or all) of these ten lightsabers to make sure that you’re armed and ready when The Force Awakens.
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10 DIY Lightsabers from Padawan to Jedi Master
Shooting a gun – while standing still without facing incoming fire – isn’t complicated. There are four basic components: sight picture, stance (which includes grip), breathing and trigger control. That’s a bit like saying playing the blues isn’t complicated. While … Read More
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