Battlestar Galactica is coming to an end and Season 4 poster reflects it. Katie Sackhoff says that there is nothing to read into it, but where’s the fun in that? So lets geek on!
Tyrol is holding a knife that he’s staring at. Maybe he’s having a hard time coming to grips with his newfound Cylon-side? Ya think?
D’Anna, Number 3, is pointing at Six. That could mean lots of things.
Starbuck is back in Anders’ loving arms. Well Anders is a Cylon and who the hell knowns what Starbuck is. Well, I have my theories - below.
Maybe not so obvious:
It looks like Baltar’s book My Triumphs, My Mistakes is sitting in front of Lee Adama.
There are two glasses of water on the table. But a chalice between Lee and Tigh.
There is something on the floor behind Starbuck.
Adama and Roslin don’t look like they were actually in this shot. They look like they were CGed and added in later. And they are the only two who have a slight glow around them. It’s more noticeable with Adama than Roslin.
There are 4 books on the table.
What is the design on the table cloth? Red and white stripes along the top and bottom with a blue background in the middle with two yellow circles. Could the circles be the icon from the Temple of Jupiter? I don’t see any details in the circles but it’s hard to tell.
Everyone except Adama, Roslin , Lee and Six are focused on something. Those four are the only ones in their own world.
Helo and Tyrol are the only ones who don’t have both feet on the ground. Sometimes that has been used to foreshadow death. Boomer’s right foot is obscured by the table leg.
Who’s missing?
Da Vinci’s Last Supper had 12 apostles and Christ. This photo only has 12 characters. Is Christ missing? My theory on the matter is that Romo Lampkin is the Christ figure. He’s the 5th and original hybrid Cylon.
The opening credits always end with “…and they have a plan”, referring to the Cylons. My wife and I joke “No they don’t. They’re making this up as they go along.” Clearly we have seen the Cylons change their opinion on matters. They admitted that the attack was a mistake, etc.
So maybe the plan doesn’t refer to the Cylons that we know but the five remaining Cylons. They are the ones with the plan. The humans and known Cylons have been following a plan, influenced by the four - Tyrol, Tigh, Anders and Tory - and of course the mastermind Lampkin.
Where does that leave Starbuck? Perhaps she is the goddess Aurora. I can’t wait to see where that goes.
This reminds me: I’d really like to volunteer to teach/tutor about programming and mathematics a day or two a week at the local high school. I’ll check into that next Fall. Remind me if I forget
This is a great looking application. Should be lots of fun for kids to play around with. If I had the time I’d try something like this in Actionscript. But it’s way down on my list of 2Dos.
xres.com uses the GoogleMaps API to display a huge array of photos that you can use to zoom and pan in an environment. And when that environment is Yosemity then you have something worth exploring. I can’t wait to see more.
The TED.com website has undergone quite a few changes recently with a new design and features. This morning I saw a video on their site that uses a very simple and usable form of video navigation that I think everyone should see. (In addition the video content itself is worthy of viewing.)
The video interface looks simple enough, as you see here. It pretty much your standard layout. What they did that is unique is when you mouse over the video timeline it expands - as you can see to the right here. In the expansion you get additional information about the video in how the content is arranged. So you can drag your playhead to view a specific portion. But even better, you con simply click on a label in the expansion and jump to that section of the video. So not only do you get more information about how the video content is organized and it’s length but you can navigate straight to it.
It’s pretty clear that to make this work you need to have Adobe Communication Server, or whatever they’re calling it today, because the video needs to be streamed instead of progressive. But this is TED where pretty much everything they do is top shelf.
You could do this with a progressive download but the user wouldn’t be able to jump to portions of the video that haven’t been downloaded yet.
This is the sort of User eXperience (UX) that when you see it you think, “Well, I can’t believe I didn’t think of that.” I’ll see what I can do to add a UX like this to my video.Maru code.
Lets get some context here: I’ve seen most of the TED.com presentations. I don’t recall a standing ovation before. This presentation is moving, and perhaps life altering.
What I like the best about the video is that while being creative it’s something that just about anyone could have done. It isn’t something that required a GFX house and a few million bucks.
