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  • The Guatemalan sinkhole meets Star Wars

    The Guatemalan sinkhole meets Star Wars

    Posted on June 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Amazing. That was probably what a lot of people saw when the amazing sink hole picture surfaced. It was for me. That and Dune's sandworm.

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  • Three variations of the Three Wolves t-shirt meme

    Three variations of the Three Wolves t-shirt meme

    Posted on May 21, 2010 | No Comments
    The Three Wolves shirt gained fame after it started collecting a bunch of clever reviews, and quickly became a bona fide meme. Once that happened, meta-memes sprang up around it. I liked the broken images variant the best. That is, until today, when I saw the Three Ewok shirt pictured here!

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  • The Star Wars trilogy told in 2:13 with LEGOs

    The Star Wars trilogy told in 2:13 with LEGOs

    Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments
    I don't know if it's more sad: someone actually owns that many Star Wars LEGOs or that I'm jealous. Either way, the video is awesome. Well done, kind sirs. Well done.

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  • Boba Fett helmet for your Star Wars-loving mom

    Boba Fett helmet for your Star Wars-loving mom

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Does your mom like to wear helmets? Does she want to be a bounty hunter? Does her dad have millions of clones? Then you’re going to want to hook her up with this $45 Boba Fett helmet. Sadly, this is actually for the kids so you and I won’t be able to wear it. However, if [...]

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  • Photo report: Darth Vader promotes DoCoMo cell phones in weird campaign

    Photo report: Darth Vader promotes DoCoMo cell phones in weird campaign

    Posted on April 30, 2010 | No Comments
    NTT DoComo, Japan's largest cell phone carrier (55 million customers), is currently running a pretty bizarre viral promotion campaign in this country (both on- and offline). The company has set up a weird website [JP] that, for some strange reason, shows Darth Vader running around Tokyo and asking who's his boss ("Who is my boss" is the official tag line of the campaign).

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  • Get ready to lose your mind: Star Wars: Light Saber Duel iPhone App, now with Bluetooth

    Get ready to lose your mind: Star Wars: Light Saber Duel iPhone App, now with Bluetooth

    Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Oh man, strap yourself in for a complete mind-freak. THQ Wireless will release next month Star Wars: Light Saber Duel, an iPhone App that works with Bluetooth. You can see where this is going. Since it works with Bluetooth, you'll be able to duel your other iPhone-owning friends. Adios, productivity.

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  • Goodnight, Forest Moon

    Goodnight, Forest Moon

    Posted on March 5, 2010 | No Comments
    In the great metal room There was a comlink and a Tauntaun and a picture of- The Executor flying over the forest moon That’s right: for those parents who don’t want to read their children the potentially death-tinged Goodnight, Moon we present Goodnight Forest Moon, a beautiful parody by Noah Dziobecki. You can download it here, print it out, and [...]

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  • Video: Taris lives on in Star Wars The Old Republic

    Video: Taris lives on in Star Wars The Old Republic

    Posted on February 26, 2010 | No Comments
    <object width=”640″ height=”385″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/sZj5ALXo030&hl=en_US&fs=1&”></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/sZj5ALXo030&hl=en_US&fs=1&” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”640″ height=”385″></embed></object> Good news, Taris isn’t gone. It might have been obliterated in The Knights of the Old Republic, but not to the point of no return. The upcoming MMORPG Star Wars The Old Republic will feature a Taris coming back to life [...]

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  • Darpa wants a real C-3PO to translate for troops Over There

    Darpa wants a real C-3PO to translate for troops Over There

    Posted on February 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Shocking admission: I've never seen a Star Wars movie. Well, that's not entirely true: I did see Episode One and Episode Three, but I'm pretty sure those don't really count. (I liked the song "Duel of the Fates," though, and the one that played when Anakin fought the other guy in the lava or whatever.) I bring this up because this story is about C3PO, the friendly robot that I'm only familiar with because, well, I'm pretty sure everyone has heard of R2D2 and C3PO, including myself. The scoop: Darpa, made famous by Metal Gear Solid, wants to commission a C3PO-like software/device that's able to translate 20 languages on the fly, identify specific speakers, and whatnot. It'd be useful for our troops in foreign lands, obviously.

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  • Someone, please, find out where I can buy these Star Wars posters

    Someone, please, find out where I can buy these Star Wars posters

    Posted on February 2, 2010 | No Comments
    I’m in love with these Star Wars posters designed by Chicago-based artist Justin Van Genderen. I have a wall in my office screaming to display all five. But I can’t find where to purchase them. My life simply will not be complete until I own them. So, someone, get ol’ Van Genderen on the horn [...]

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  • From 1978: Unbelievable Japanese “Star Wars” TV spot for “sea chicken”

    From 1978: Unbelievable Japanese “Star Wars” TV spot for “sea chicken”

    Posted on February 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Star Wars has always been popular in Japan, so seeing Luke Skywalker et al. in a Japanese TV commercial from the 1970s isn't a big deal in itself. But seeing the Star Wars franchise being used for promoting "sea chicken" (canned tuna) is kind of unusual. Needless to say, the gaijin acting in the TV spot, which was first aired on Japanese TV in 1978, are just look-alikes. And apparently, "sea chicken" maker Hagoromo Foods has used the Star Wars setting without getting a license from Lucasarts. Different times back then, I guess. TV spot after the jump.

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  • Video: Star Wars text crashes down on Earth like alphabetical asteroids

    Video: Star Wars text crashes down on Earth like alphabetical asteroids

    Posted on February 1, 2010 | No Comments
    I have NO idea how the text from the opening credits of Star Wars made its way to our galaxy. It’s supposed to all be far, far away! And what are the odds that it’d find its way into Earth’s gravitational pull, only to come raining down on an unassuming suburb? If only the Starship [...]

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  • Sweet Merciful Yoda, that’s a big Star Wars collection

    Sweet Merciful Yoda, that’s a big Star Wars collection

    Posted on January 30, 2010 | No Comments
    This, my friends, is a close up. This is further out. And this is all of it. Wow.

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  • In Photos: Charlie Brown TIE Fighter

    In Photos: Charlie Brown TIE Fighter

    Posted on January 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Question: Why make a TIE Fighter out of Charlie Brown’s head? Answer: Because it’s possible. The photo’s caption reads as follows: “This is a kit bash sculpture I did with an old school mpc vader tie model kit and some other plastic stuff I had. It combines two of childhood loves the wars and charlie brown. [...]

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  • Star Wars Play-Doh: May the Force be pliable and starchy smelling

    Star Wars Play-Doh: May the Force be pliable and starchy smelling

    Posted on January 21, 2010 | No Comments
    This Star Wars Play-Doh playset is for ages three AND UP – you’re all part of “and up” unless you’re a really smart baby who reads tech blogs for some reason. If you are such a baby, please apply for an internship. We’ll take anybody – anybody – who can appeal to toddlers. That’s a huge, untapped demographic for us and it’d be nice to write for people at or around our same level of intellect, maturity, and tableside manners.

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