#maverics

Photos of Britain's aging rebels and Mavericks.

Back to the Future, 30 Years Later 

Blue salt fields in Australia photographed like oil paintings.

Expanding the Panama Canal.

'True Detective' and the shady history of California Noir.

Goths of Manaus

The best psychedelic photos from Google's #deepdream software.

The history of animals in photographs.

‘Future Shock’, the movie.

It's almost Christmas so time for some nerdy fun... this is actually pretty silly, but it's kinda cool how someone actually bothered to make an entire Star Wars movie in ASCII art and putting it on a telnet server available to everybody. Here's how you can watch Star Wars in ASCII:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

For maximum effect choose a black background, for example by going to preferences in Terminal and choose "Profiles" and "Pro". Here are some screenshots with both the Pro background and the default one:

Here's a neat little trick if you need to hide files or folders from Finder. It is important to note that the 'chflags' command hides the files/folders from the Mac OS X graphical user interface but they will still be listed in Terminal using the 'ls' command.

To hide files and folders from Finder use this command:

chflags hidden /path/folderorfile/

To unhide again use this command:

chflags nohidden /path/folderorfile/