John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin mourn the continuing shameful stewardship of the cultural touchstone that is Star Wars, then dive into the Windows 8 Metro user interface and Microsoft's prospects for the future of its hybrid tablet/desktop operating system.

Links for this episode:

• 6.270 - MIT's Autonomous Robot Design Competition
• Markdown Syntax Documentation - Daring Fireball
• Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Episodes I-VI) [Blu-ray] - Amazon.com
• The Secret History of Star Wars
• Hypercritical #13: The Tortoise and the Hare - 5by5
• 8 traits of great Metro style apps - Channel 9
• A bad motivator - John McCoy
• RubySpec - The Standard You Trust™
• Spielberg Repents for Changes He Made to E.T. - Wired.com
• Dragonslayer at the SXSW Film Festival
• Against perpetual copyright - wiki.lessig.org

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