Star Wars Gangsta Rap: Chronicles

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What If Star Wars Was Made By Environmentalists?

Via Boing Boing

Star Wars retold by someone who hasn't seen it

from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

Jacasta Nu: Worst librarian in the Galaxy

Posting those Doctor Who clips the other day reminded me of this...

Star Wars: The Old Republic game trailer

This game might just get me to play a MMORPG...

Personalize this book

I was considering ordering one of these then I saw the price. Ignoring what you think of Star Wars novels in general, what do you think of the idea and the price?

Add a photo, create a dedication, and we'll do the rest.
You'll have your own one-of-a-kind personalized edition!

Star Wars: Millennium Falcon

(Hardcover)
Author: James Luceno

Star Wars: Millennium Falcon is an exciting, action-packed adventure that begins shortly after the events of the New York Times bestselling Legacy of the Force series. A secret is uncovered on the Millennium Falconthat dates back to the years before Han won the ship from Lando Calrissian in a game of Sabaac. In an effort to unravel the mystery, Han, Leia, and their young granddaughter, Allan, follow the clues of the Millennium Falcon's history back to its very construction -- and discover an elaborate plot to overthrow the Emperor. The excitement of Star Wars never ends.

340 pages (size: 6" x 9")
$49.99

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Help me Anderson, you're my only hope

If you were watching CNN last night you might caught a live television first, interview via "hologram".  Well, sort of. Now don't get me wrong, this was totally cool and I instantly thought of Princess Leia in Star Wars. (Then again, so did the first person they did this with.) In case you missed it, here's what Wil.i.am looked like:

And here's the reverse angle:

As described by CNN, the hologrammed person was standing inside a tent with about 35 high definition cameras surrounding them which were synchronized with the in-studio cameras in order to show the correct angle of the person on the broadcast. Please keep in mind that Anderson Cooper in these images is not actually seeing the person standing there. At best, he's looking at an off-screen monitor. (One can only hope that monitor was in the shape of R2-D2.) The hologram isn't truly a hologram in that sense. The remote person is being added into the broadcast signal so us at home can see them; he's not an image free-floating in the studio. (OK, honestly, that's how I think it worked. If I'm totally wrong, please correct me.)

Overall the effect was definitely cool. The thin blue outline around the beamed-in folks added a bit of sci-fi to the whole thing which I'm not sure was good or bad. On the one hand it was a smidge distracting. On the other, it made it clear that the person wasn't really there and in the case of a news report I'd like to keep things as "real" as possible.

Update: io9 has the video of the Will.i.am appearance.

Star Wars: The Fate of the Duel

Star Wars The Fate of the Duel
by daveandtom

Via YesButNoButYes

Jedi Gym

Star Wars: The Clone Wars theatrical trailer

Star Wars fans vs. Sports Fans

The shiny guy, he always worries

Star Wars explained by a three year-old.

Death Star Help Desk

Just where is Coruscant anyway?

via TheTrukstoP.com

Star Wars PSA

Steampunk Star Wars

From the blog Eric's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea, what if Star Wars had been done in the Steampunk SF Sub-genre? The descriptions are wonderfully written, but the artwork are totally spectacular.

Star Wars Fun

In honor of the Darth Tater I received for Christmas, here's a link to the online Death Star Designer. Yes, you can design your own Death Star. Just be sure to make it mighty, defendable, and within budget.

Star Wars side-by-side

With the release of the original theatrical versions of the original Star Wars trilogy (yes, Han shot first) coming on September 12th, the folks at StarWars.com have set up slide shows of more than 150 images per movie showing the changes made from the original to the special editions. The comparisons of A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back are online but the Return of the Jedi comparison doesn't seem to be available yet.

Star Wars LEGOs

Can it get any cooler than this?

• Millennium Falcon
• Death Star II
• Imperial Star Destroyer

Side note:
Here's a screwed upsearch box from the LEGO site

Called to serve

I'm sitting in the Jury Assembly Room at the Arapahoe County Justice Center this morning. I've filled out my questionaire and now I wait, new Star Wars paperback next to me, wondering how the day will proceede.

Video fun

This guy always wanted to be in a music video so he did one of his own. Considering I saw the original band perform this song live back in the day, I can say that this version is better.

Also, there's the Star Wars Gangsta Rap Special Edition on AtomFilms.com.

Episode III Easter Egg Hunt

The official Star Wars site has several pages of Easter Eggs from Episode III. I caught several of them myself while watching the film the first time and a few more the second. (I spotted the Millennium Falcon!) Warning: Contains spoilers.
via Librarian's Rant

Lightsabers

The folks at HowStuffWorks.com have information for all the Star Wars geeks out there that are getting impatient. Check out "How Lightsabers Work".

Got 14 hours?

I'll admit to going to see a marathon of the original three Star Wars films when they were re-released as special editions, but I"m not sure that I have the stamina for all six.

Doh!

Seven weeks ahead of time, fans are already lining up for the opening of the last Star Wars film in L.A. Trouble is, they're at the wrong theater.

Star Wars Republic News

I know that I've pretty much sworn off "toys" but I've just got to get me a Darth Tater.
Thanks A

Who Put the Donk in the JL421 Badonkadonk? : Jalopnik

Yes, for only $20k you can have your very own sand crawler a-la Star Wars.

"Lord vader, rise!"

The Star Wars Episode III Teaser Trailer was made available on AOL yesterday. Sorry, sometimes blogging from the road is not always easy...

Star wars: episode iii

Here's one opinion on how to keep the next film from sucking too much.

Star Wars: Survivor's Quest
by Timothy Zahn

Off the bookshelf

A throughly enjoyable book but I can't quite figure out where this one appears in the Star Wars timeline. It's definitely post Thrawn, post the marriage of Luke and Mara Jade and well before the New Jedi Order but that's about as narrowed down as I can make it. For some reason the timeline was not printed in this book as has been done for the past several years. If anyone knows for sure, or even has a good gues, I'd appreciate it.

About frickin' time!

Lucasfilm announced today that the orginal Star Wars trilogy will be released, finally, on DVD this September.

Why michael likes wesley clark

O.k. this is actually why Michael Moore likes Wesley Clark but I can't find much to disagree with here...

1. Clark has committed to ensuring that every family of four who makes under $50,000 a year pays NO federal income tax. None. Zip. This is the most incredible helping hand offered by a major party presidential candidate to the working class and the working poor in my lifetime. He will make up the difference by socking it to the rich with a 5% tax increase on anything they make over a million bucks. He will make sure corporations pay ALL of the taxes they should be paying. Clark has fired a broadside at greed. When the New York Times last week wrote that Wes Clark has been "positioning himself slightly to Dean’s left," this is what they meant, and it sure sounded good to me.
2. He is 100% opposed to the draft. If you are 18-25 years old and reading this right now, I have news for you -- if Bush wins, he's going to bring back the draft. He will be forced to. Because, thanks to his crazy war, recruitment is going to be at an all-time low. And many of the troops stuck over there are NOT going to re-enlist. The only way Bush is going to be able to staff the military is to draft you and your friends. Parents, make no mistake about it -- Bush's second term will see your sons taken from you and sent to fight wars for the oily rich. Only an ex-general who knows first-hand that a draft is a sure-fire way to wreck an army will be able to avert the inevitable.
3. He is anti-war. Have you heard his latest attacks on Bush over the Iraq War? They are stunning and brilliant. I want to see him on that stage in a debate with Bush -- the General vs. the Deserter! General Clark told me that it's people like him who are truly anti-war because it's people like him who have to die if there is a war. "War must be the absolute last resort," he told me. "Once you've seen young people die, you never want to see that again, and you want to avoid it whenever and wherever possible." I believe him. And my ex-Army relatives believe him, too. It's their votes we need.
4. He walks the walk. On issues like racism, he just doesn't mouth liberal platitudes -- he does something about it. On his own volition, he joined in and filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of the University of Michigan's case in favor of affirmative action. He spoke about his own insistence on affirmative action in the Army and how giving a hand to those who have traditionally been shut out has made our society a better place. He didn't have to get involved in that struggle. He's a middle-aged white guy -- affirmative action personally does him no good. But that is not the way he thinks. He grew up in Little Rock, one of the birthplaces of the civil rights movement, and he knows that African Americans still occupy the lowest rungs of the ladder in a country where everyone is supposed to have "a chance." That is why he has been endorsed by one of the founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Charlie Rangel, and former Atlanta Mayor and aide to Martin Luther King, Jr., Andrew Young.
5. On the issue of gun control, this hunter and gun owner will close the gun show loophole (which would have helped prevent the massacre at Columbine) and he will sign into law a bill to create a federal ballistics fingerprinting database for every gun in America (the DC sniper, who bought his rifle in his own name, would have been identified after the FIRST day of his killing spree). He is not afraid, as many Democrats are, of the NRA. His message to them: "You like to fire assault weapons? I have a place for you. It's not in the homes and streets of America. It's called the Army, and you can join any time!"
6. He will gut and overhaul the Patriot Act and restore our constitutional rights to privacy and free speech. He will demand stronger environmental laws. He will insist that trade agreements do not cost Americans their jobs and do not exploit the workers or environment of third world countries. He will expand the Family Leave Act. He will guarantee universal pre-school throughout America. He opposes all discrimination against gays and lesbians (and he opposes the constitutional amendment outlawing gay marriage). All of this is why Time magazine this week referred to Clark as "Dean 2.0" -- an improvement over the original (1.0, Dean himself), a better version of a good thing: stronger, faster, and easier for the mainstream to understand and use.
7. He will cut the Pentagon budget, use the money thus saved for education and health care, and he will STILL make us safer than we are now. Only the former commander of NATO could get away with such a statement. Dean says he will not cut a dime out of the Pentagon. Clark knows where the waste and the boondoggles are and he knows that nutty ideas like Star Wars must be put to pasture. His health plan will cover at least 30 million people who now have no coverage at all, including 13 million children. He's a general who will tell those swing voters, "We can take this Pentagon waste and put it to good use to fix that school in your neighborhood." My friends, those words, coming from the mouth of General Clark, are going to turn this country around.

Wanna have some pun?

Here's a very short Star Wars scene parody with one Hell of a pun.

Click the cartoon's 'back' button when it's done for other great animations. (Warning, some contain scenes of graphic violence and non-politically correct religious humor. Those are the really funny ones.)