It started as social software for work, but Slack now has our :heart:, time, and data.
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What Slack is doing to our offices—and our minds
Duck Dynasty’s Jase Robertson on Gun Control
Duck Dynasty’s Jase Robertson lays down the truth about guns and gun control when asked by The Blaze’s Billy Hallowell to respond to people who who demand greater government control over guns.
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Duck Dynasty’s Jase Robertson on Gun Control
Google Street View takes you on a South African safari
So you’ve wanted to see African wildlife in its native habitat, but the prospect of booking such an expensive trip makes your bank account weep. What to do? Google can help. It just introduced the Mzansi Experience, a virtual visit to South Africa that uses Street View to give you a sense of the country’s grandiose landscape. On top of seeing elephants, leopards and other fauna, it’ll take you to everything from Cape Town’s Table Mountain through to Durban’s Golden Mile. While this still won’t be as awe-inspiring as a real safari, it’ll require much less effort… and it might even inspire you to go when your finances allow.
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Google Street View takes you on a South African safari
Watch a Bowling Ball Get Shot Out of a Cannon and Smashed into Pieces
Would shooting bowling balls out of a cannon make for good artillery? Sort of! The bowling balls whirrs out fast and strong and tries to strike everything in its way. It won’t break everything because if the ball comes in contact with a hard surface, it basically gets smashed into smithereens. Still, it’s a fun little trick to have in the arsenal.
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Watch a Bowling Ball Get Shot Out of a Cannon and Smashed into Pieces
New Magpul 10/22 Hunter X-22 Stock
Back at last year’s SHOT show I was given a peak of a prototype 10/22 chassis. Being a Ruger 10/22 fan with over a dozen various custom 10/22 rifles, I was thrilled to say the least. The Magpul stock I saw then was just released to the public as of August 2015. According to Magpul’s[…..]
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Run 500 hard-to-find Apple II programs in your web browser
Sure, it’s easy to find ways to run classic Apple II programs like The Oregon Trail or Prince of Persia. But what about that obscure educational title you remember using as a kid? Is it doomed to be forgotten? You might not have to worry. The Internet Archive has announced that its web-based emulation catalog now includes over 500 relatively tough-to-find Apple II programs that might otherwise have disappeared forever. If you remember using the likes of The Quarter Mile or The Observatory, you can fire it up without having to dig your old computer out of storage.
In many cases, it’s almost surprising that the programs are available at all. They come from an era when copy protection frequently involved hardware-specific tricks, and attempts to crack them often broke code or included unsightly credits to the cracking teams involved. Here, that isn’t an issue — the goal is to preserve the software as faithfully as possible. The Internet Archive likely can’t save everything even it keeps expanding its library, but it could prevent large swaths of Apple II history from being reduced to memories.
Source: Internet Archive
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Run 500 hard-to-find Apple II programs in your web browser
The Comprehensive Guide to Building a Realistic R2-D2 Replica
Learn how to build your own R2-D2 and join a dedicated community of Makers bringing Star Wars astromech droids to life. This comprehensive guide will get you started!
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The Comprehensive Guide to Building a Realistic R2-D2 Replica
This Amazing Fan Film Showcases All The Things We Love About Darth Maul
There is one good thing to come out of Episode I: The Phantom Menace: Darth Maul. This fan film, Darth Maul: Apprentice showcases all of the things that we loved about the red-and-black Sith Lord.
When a team of Jedi Knights stumble upon Maul’s training world, he’s forced to protect his identity and the nature of his training. Fantastic lightsaber battles ensue.
Did we mention that there were some great work with lighsabers here?
Beyond just the fighting, this is a really beautifully shot film – the scenery is great, and the team behind the camera knew what they were doing.
There’s been some excellent stories about Maul as well: Michael Reaves’ novel Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter was quite a bit of fun, and the Sith Lord’s appearances in The Clone Wars were surprisingly good.
There’s also a fantastic behind-the-scenes video about how the film was created:
Contact the author at andrew.liptak@io9.com.
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This Amazing Fan Film Showcases All The Things We Love About Darth Maul
BorgBackup 1.0.0 Released
An anonymous reader writes: After almost a year of development, bug fixing and cleanup, BorgBackup 1.0.0 has been released. BorgBackup is a fork of the Attic-Backup project — a deduplicating, compressing, encrypting and authenticating backup program for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and other unixoid operating systems (Windows may also work using CygWin, but that is rather experimental/unsupported). It works on 32bit as well as on 64bit platforms, x86/x64 and ARM CPUs (maybe as well on others, but these are the tested ones). For Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X, there are single-file binaries which can be just copied onto a system and contain everything needed (Python, libraries, BorgBackup itself). Of course, it can be also installed from source. BorgBackup is FOSS (BSD License) and implemented in Python 3 (91%), speed critical parts are in C or Cython (9%).
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