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Random post based on MacBreak ep. 70.

Thanks to Merlin Mann for the title, this should make it into his mannerisms (pdf). If you’re someone who would watch Darth Vader make hash browns, you’ll love the Star Wars Holiday Special from 1978. Holy smokes. This could very well be the most wonderfully horrible bit of video I’ve seen. Wow. Do a search for Star Wars Holiday Special on You Tube for clips. Or you can find the full special floating around usenet. Or if you’re campically challenged but still want to get in on the fun, check out this version from Rifftrax to have the humor explained for you.

Just ran across this list of OSX menu bar items. Great collection. The menu bar app, Caffeine was pointed out to me. This great little app allows you to disable and enable your energy saver settings with a single click. So basically you can be a good little monkey and use efficient energy saver settings most of the time but then if you need it, click the ZZZ in the menu bar to make sure your computer won’t go to sleep. If you give a presentation or watch a movie with your laptop unplugged, you know the annoyance of your screen shutting off or your screen saver coming on. I’ve enjoyed HimmelBar but don’t see a need for it in leopard with the stacks functionality. If you’re still using Tiger, check it out. iDiskMenu looks very cool as well as a menu app to mount and unmount webdav and ftp network shares. Unfortunately this doesn’t fire up in Leopard but it gets me wanting something to easily manage network shares. Also nfs support is a must for me. I’ll need to figure that out. Seems like a perfect job for the RixStep guys.