Hypercritical

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss some upcoming Pixar projects, Facebook's open datacenter initiative, Star Wars, and, finally, Apple’s philosophy and practice of UI consistency over the years. Links for this episode:Pixar's Newt cancelled - May 2010First images from Pixar’s BraveJohn Carter of Mars - WikipediaThe Open Compute ProjectBuilding Efficient Data Centers with the Open Compute ProjectThe Secret History of Star WarsOtaku - WikipediaBruce Tognazzini - WikipediaThe original Macintosh Control Panel, 1984AppleCD Audio PlayerThe HiTech and Gizmo Copland appearance themesApple's Drawing Board appearance themeKaleidoscope and other appearance themesiCal's new look in Mac OS X Lion DP2Tog on InterfaceSystem 7Apple Human Interface GuidelinesUgly toolbar buttons in Apple Mail 2.0Sponsored by FreshBooks and MailChimp.