David Edison finds the remains of Tatooine, and returns with travel tips. (Via LJ’s starwars community.)
Tin hats ahoy!
Those crazy kids at MIT explore the effectiveness of aluminum foil hats to block mind control rays. (Thanks to Liz for the link.)
He.. uh… talks to fish.
Well, it’s official – the producers of anvil-laden Smallville are now turning their sights on Aquaman – they’ve signed on for a put pilot commitment. My condolences to all Aquaman fans.
Actors, writers want placement cash
Hollywood writers and actors want a code of conduct for ‘hidden’ advertising on TV shows and films such as Star Wars being a main focus of last week’s ‘Apprentice’.
More guests for JadeCon
So long as they contribute to the bar fund and don’t break anything.
Some rowdy drunks have created quite a scare at an old folks home in southern Sweden.
And these boozers were as big as a moose.
In fact they were moose.
Police say a mama moose and her calf got tipsy from eating fermented apples. Police managed to scare them off once. But the juiced moose returned to get more of the liquored-up fruit.
Police sent for a hunter and his dog, who managed to chase the animals away. To make sure the moose don’t fall off the wagon again, police had all the boozy apples picked up and carted away.
I’m not making this up.
Translated from the tl;dr
Joss Whedon is writing a Buffy comic that continues the story post-‘Chosen.’
What, no ‘Dark Side of the Moon?’
This guy is watching the entire saga at once. Some interesting coincidences. OR ARE THEY?
Yo! Yoda raps.
The official site explains the why and how of the Revenge DVD’s Hip Hop Yoda Easter Egg.
(And if you can’t access the Easter Egg on your DVD, you can watch the video on Google.)
Oh joy, another Padme figure.
Remember the Sideshow Collectibles’s Choice poll for an EU figure? Guess who won?
Arctic Suit Padme from the Clone Wars cartoons. As for the actual EU characters, Mara Jade came in at #2 (losing by just 54 votes,) followed by Kir Kanos, Quinlan Vos, Asajj Ventress, and Grand Admiral Thrawn.
Oh Star Wars fandom, will you ever stop making me go WTF?
ETA: In this interview with RebelScum, Sideshow’s Licensing Coordinator Brock Otterbacher says:
“The way that Expanded Universe Poll stands, the winner is going to get made, that’s not say that we might not take another figure from that didn’t win and make that later on. It won’t be like ‘second place’ or ‘third place’, it would just be a figure that we all like as a group internally here further on down the line. If it proves successful, yeah we’d consider expanding it into its own line or maybe just peppering it into the whole line here and there.”
So there’s still hope for an actual EU character figure. I expect this leans on how many collectors are also EU fans, and how many EU fans are willing to spend $50 on a ‘collector’s item.’
Don’t cry for me, Princess Leia
Cry for MIT’s bandwidth instead. Our pals from the the Trilogy Musical Edition have been Slashdotted!