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Do Good – Run! And buy!

We have charity things for both the Star Wars fans, Stargate fans, and sci-fi fans in general, today.

Kilometers 4 Katie – There will be another marathon in Storm Trooper armour.  This one benefits the Make-A-Wish foundation.  The goal is to raise enough to grant two wishes in memory of Katie Johnson; daughter of 501st founder Albin Johnson.

Michael Shanks Online Auction – It’s time, once again, for another auction benefitting the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada.  Items have been donated from all over the sci-fi and TV world.  It’s not just Stargate. 

There was news today that says charity contributions are down.  Please do all you can to help the organization of your choice.

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The fandom minute: Ewoks, Webbies, Vader, Death Star BBQ, Wedge (fake,) and lists

For the budding anthropologists in the room… McSweeny’s has Yub Jub Means “Devour the Weak:” An Authoritative Study of the Ewoks From the Field. (Also noteworthy, though not Star Wars: Selections from H.P. Lovecraft’s Brief Tenure as a Whitman’s Sample Copywriter.)

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EUbits: Sansweet’s 1000, Random Clones, Bohnhoff’s plotting and something gamey

Nonfiction. Here we have the cover for Star Wars: 1,000 Collectibles. Steve Sansweet and Anne Neumann take us into the depths of Rancho Obi-Wan… Okay, maybe not the depths. Look for it October 1st.

Random. TheForce.Net has some random updates on upcoming books, mostly The Clone Wars kids stuff, which honestly I’m not even trying to keep track of. There is an episode guide that might be of interest to some.

A Padawan’s Journal. Bohnhoff on Plotting the Wily Star Wars Novel and First Impressions.

Games. Another Battlefront on the way. On that note, here’s the Threat of Peace web comic is now on #7.

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Twelve geeky Barbie dolls, but no Star Wars

These are not Barbies. Though they are almost bobbleheads.Topless Robot lists off the 12 greatest Barbie dolls for nerds, including multiple Treks. Who better to wear those short skirts?

As we’ve already addressed many times, I’m the furthest thing there is from a collecting expert, but I don’t think we’ve ever seen a legitimate Star Wars Barbie produced. (Somehow I doubt Kenner or Hasbro even allowed Mattel to think about it.) Which is really a pity, considering how many outfits the prequels produced. And yes, there is Sideshow, but there’s just something about Barbie, in all her opiate-of-the-masses glory.

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Star Wars in the news: Steve Sansweet, gays in gaming, helmetage, Matt Lanter

banthaSteve Sansweet in the news. Forbes sits down with the ultimate Star Wars collector – with a bonus peek at 12 items in his collection.

Consequences. The Bioware censorship firestorm prompts Kotaku to take a look at past issues with homosexuality in gaming.

Well… I guess… There’s a touch of Star Wars in these new British fire helmets. But my first impression is some other movie… That I can’t quite identify…

People. Matt Lanter on The Clone Wars and 90210.

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Starlog won’t kill your trees anymore…

Starlog, a magazine that was my lifeline to geekdom when I was a kid, is ending its print magazine and moving to online only.

Y’see, kids (she says, putting on her best old person voice), back in the day, this was one of the few ways to get any news on the geeky stuff.  I can remember my complete shock and utter joy to find Starlog magazine.

These were people who understood me!  They covered things I wanted to hear about!  I would bore my mother for hours regurgitating everything I’d read in it.

Alas, the advent of the fast reporting of the internet and its increasing costs to publish has taken down this classic.  You’ll just need to content yourself by following them online.

Thanks again, Starlog!