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 2010
  
• First images from Pixar’s Brave
  
• John Carter of Mars - Wikipedia
  
• The Open Compute Project
  
• Building Efficient Data Centers with the Open Compute Project
  
• The Secret History of Star Wars
  
• Otaku - Wikipedia
  
• Bruce Tognazzini - Wikipedia
  
• The original Macintosh Control Panel, 1984
  
• AppleCD Audio Player
  
• The HiTech and Gizmo Copland appearance themes
  
• Apple's Drawing Board appearance theme
  
• Kaleidoscope and other appearance themes
  
• iCal's new look in Mac OS X Lion DP2
  
• Tog on Interface
  
• System 7
  
• Apple Human Interface Guidelines
  
• Ugly toolbar buttons in Apple Mail 2.0
  

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