106: ‘Star Wars Holiday Spectacular’ With Guests John Siracusa and Guy English
The Talk Show With John Gruber
12/31/14
•224m
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A brief chat about the Star Wars movies, with special guests John Siracusa and Guy English.
Update, Monday 5 January 2015: Updated with a new Special Edition edit, including a new introduction, a new editing gag around the 2:20:00 mark, new poster art, and some subtle re-syncing of the audio tracks. No extra Banthas were added, and Siracusa still shoots first.
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Links:
- Michael Heilemann’s Kitbashed (highly recommended).
- “Plinkett” reviews The Phantom Menace (sort of kind of not really recommended).
- Original poster for Star Wars.
- Leigh Brackett’s script for The Empire Strikes Back.
- “Star Wars” Episodes of The Incomparable.
- Yes, that was young Greedo in The Phantom Menace.
- The complete Star Wars: Clone Wars cel-animated series from 2003 — pretty fun, worth watching.
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105: ‘George Lucas Called’ With Guest Jason Snell
December 30, 2014
•137m
Special guest Jason Snell joins the show for a year-end extravaganza. Topics include Jason’s first three months writing (and podcasting) as an indie at his new Six Colors; a look back at his 20-year career at MacUser and soon thereafter Macworld; tricky edge cases when booking sponsorships, and the whole situation with separating advertising sales from editorial integrity when you’re running a one-person publication; the Sony/North Korea hacking and The Interview, and iTunes’s slightly belated release thereof; and we pour one out for good old Movable Type.
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Links:
- McSweeney’s: “Email Addresses It Would Be Really Hard to Give Out Over the Phone” (a classic).
- Jason Snell at Six Colors: “No Other Gatekeeper But Me”
- Power Computing, the leading Mac clone maker.
- Mac clones.
- The 1997 merger of MacUser and Macworld.
- Chandler reading Macworld on Friends
- Daring Fireball piece on software bundles back in 2006: “The Iniquities of the Selfish”.
- Wilfredo Sanchez’s crackerjack whitepaper from 2000: “The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environments”.
- Lycos, not dead yet.
- John Gruber, Dan Moren, and Jason Snell talking about Raiders of the Lost Ark on episode 8 of The Incomparable back in 2010.
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107: ‘Now It’s All Floppy’ With Guest Marco Arment
January 12, 2015
•184m
Special guest Marco Arment returns to the show. Topics include microphones; Marco’s much-publicized article last week on Apple’s seemingly declining software quality; talking to the press and agreeing to interviews; Apple’s relatively tiny developer relations team (and how that pertains to the aforementioned segment on Apple’s perceived software quality); the purported new 12-inch MacBook Air and its dearth of peripheral ports; and more.
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Links:
- Heil PR40 microphone.
- Shure SM7B microphone.
- Marco’s article: “Apple Has Lost the Functional High Ground”.
- My take on the “Functional High Ground” thing.
- Panic’s App Store woes.
- Mark Gurman’s purported scoop on the upcoming new MacBook Air.
- Jason Snell’s Macworld review of the original MacBook Air in 2008.
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