Nicholas Chase, Chaos Magnet

You can spend hours on YouTube finding Doctor Who videos.  I know.  I think I've wasted months of my life doing it, just a few hours at a time!  So I've decided to put the best of them together into a single lens, if for no oth...

You can spend hours on YouTube finding Torchwood videos.  I know.  I think I've wasted months of my life doing it, just a few hours at a time!  So I've decided to put the best of them together into a single lense, if for no oth...

JavaScript Object Notation, or JSON, has recently flared into the public consciousness because of one simple fact: it can be used to overcome one of the limitations of Ajax, today's other hot buzzword. Ajax, which relies on HTTP connections from the...

OpenLaszlo is an XML and Javascript-based programming language that compiles to Flash without you ever having to touch the actual Flash application. Yes, programmatically created Flash movies are here! This lens will tell you all about it.

Several years ago, I was introduced to perennial peanut hay as an alternative to the Orchard and Alfalfa mix I was feeding to my horses, or to the (shudder) coastal hay that was all around us. It's a high protein hay that carries many of the bene...

One thing about recessions, they sure get people thinking about not paying so much at the grocery store. At the same time, we're thinking more about not poisoning the planet quite so much. That's where compost comes in! No more unnecessary waste in l...

Some people compare the careers of Mark Hamill, and say, Harrison Ford, and think that's playing Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies was the end of his career.  But they don't know him very well.  Mark Hamill once said that doing Star Wa...

Darth Vader is perhaps the cinematic definition of ambivalence.  Oh, there's no denying that he's evil, of course.  From the moment we saw him, back in 1977, strangling that poor rebel captain with his bare hands at the beginning of Star Wa...

It's not the kiss of death to be identified with a role as strong in the public consciousness as Obi Wan Kenobi, but sometimes it can feel like it.  But Ewan McGregor had a diverse and edgy career long before he came to Star Wars, from Emma...

When it comes to entertainment, Natalie Portman may always be best known as Queen Amidala in the Star Wars series of films, and it's very possible that that won't bother her. Portman began acting at the age of 12 after being discovered in a pizza par...

Harrison Ford is living proof that an iconic film role does not have to be the kiss of death for a career. After playing Han Solo in the Star Wars trilogy and Indiana Jones in the Raiders of the Lost Ark series, he went on to acclaim in such movies a...