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Marina Sirtis Reveals Why She Was Never Allowed to Wear the Uniform

For generations of Star Trek The Next Generation fans, Deanna Troi’s wardrobe has always stood out.

While Captain Picard, Riker, Data and the rest of the Enterprise crew wore crisp Starfleet uniforms that visually reinforced their authority and rank, Troi spent most of the early series in flowing civilian outfits. Deep necklines, draped fabrics and jewel toned gowns became as much a part of her on screen identity as her empathic abilities.

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How Elijah Wood Hacked His Way Into The Lord of the Rings

Elijah Wood Lord of the Rings

Before The Lord of the Rings transformed fantasy filmmaking and reshaped blockbuster cinema, the project was an enormous gamble. New Line Cinema had committed to producing three massive films simultaneously, filming them back to back in New Zealand, under the direction of Peter Jackson, a filmmaker best known at the time for cult horror titles rather than epic fantasy.

The scale was unprecedented. The risk was enormous. And for the actors auditioning, it was immediately clear that landing a role in The Lord of the Rings would not be like landing any other job.

Elijah Wood sensed that immediately.

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Happy New Year!

As the year wraps up, I just want to pause for a moment and say thank you.

Thank you for coming here.
Thank you for spending a piece of your day with this site. The internet is a loud, chaotic place, and the fact that you choose to show up here, day after day, honestly means more than you probably realize.

This site exists because of you.

So as we step into a brand-new year, I want to wish every one of you good health, success and happiness in the new year.

Here’s to a better year ahead.

25 Photos of Seriously Cool Home Network Labs

Most home networks start simple—a modem, a router, maybe a Wi-Fi extender tucked behind a couch. And then, for some people, it turns into something else entirely. A single upgrade leads to another. A dropped connection becomes a weekend project. Suddenly there’s a rack in the closet, cables that are cut to length, ports that are labeled, and a setup that’s been planned instead of improvised.

What started as “I just want better Wi-Fi” becomes a quiet obsession with uptime, redundancy, and control. Cameras get their own VLAN. Access points are ceiling-mounted and perfectly aligned. Power is backed up. Nothing is left dangling or undocumented. At some point, the network stops being invisible infrastructure and becomes the thing itself—a system you build, refine, and take a little pride in every time you open the cabinet door.

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