May the Fourth Be With You, Empire, Comics, Clips, LEGO; Space Battles, Rocket Science; Universe, "I'm not saying it was aliens."; Trekkies

May the Fourth Be With You

• Star Wars: Episode VII Cast Announced
• "Star Wars" almost didn't get made—"The studio had low expectations for the epic that changed movies forever." Salon
• Star Wars toys made me who I am—"In praise of action figures from a long time ago (1978)." Salon
• Once-lost Star Wars-related short to screen for the first time in 33 years—"How a college script debuted before Empire, went MIA, and revived as Jedi hits 30."
• Officially Licensed Star Wars Luke Skywalker Cermonial Jacket with Medal of Yavin
• STAR WARS High Fashion Gowns Stuns/Geeks Out New York Fashion Week
• West Wars
• That escalted quickly.

Empire

• Darth Vader and Son
• Stormtrooper
• Deathstar

Comics

• 'The Star Wars' that almost was
• Bruce Timm Concept Art for Star Wars comic
• 80s High School

Clips

• Bill Hader on Conan
• Jason Schwartzman, Patton Oswalt, Billy Dee Williams do "Star Wars" karaoke Salon
• Never-before-seen "Star Wars" blooper reel surfaces Salon
• Star Wars Episode IV (Deleted Scenes) - Tosche Station
• Star Wars Episode IV (Deleted Scenes) - Luke & Biggs
• ECCC 2012: Star Wars Trilogy: The Radio Play
• Party rock Cantina Band

LEGO

• LEGO 'Yoda Chronicles' builds on 'Star Wars' legacy
• Lego Sandcrawler rolls through 'Star Wars' universe
• Meet the 23-ton X-Wing, the world's largest Lego model—It's frickin' huge.
• Anatomy of a Logo: Star Wars
• Star Wars Lego prank

Space Battles

• Trampoline to Space? Russian Official Tells NASA to Take a Flying Leap
• Matt Reed: So reliant on Russia, it's scary
• Replacing Russian Rocket Engine Isn’t Easy, Pentagon Says
• SpaceX says rocket purchases violate Russian sanctions, gets injunction—"Lockheed-Martin and Boeing's joint venture barred from buying Russian engines."

Rocket Science

• NASA to conduct unprecedented twin experiment
• NASA Wants Ideas for Mission to Jupiter's Icy Moon Europa
• NASA reveals its next generation Tron spacesuit
• Video Confirms SpaceX Pulled Off the Nearly Impossible Falcon 9 Landing

Universe

• Dark matter found? Gamma rays at centre of Milky Way promise clue to mystery of universe
• 'Runaway' Star Cluster Breaks Free from Distant Galaxy
• A "wimpy" dwarf fossil galaxy reveals new facts about early universe

"I'm not saying it was aliens."

• The telescope big enough to spot signs of alien life on other planets
• False Signs of Life on Alien Worlds
• Search for extraterrestrial life clouded by exomoon atmospheres
• Plait: Alien worlds, extraordinary and mundane

Trekkies

• William Shatner, of 'Star Trek' Fame, Gets NASA's Highest Civilian Honor
• Shut up, Wesley: The annoying (and entertaining) kids of Star Trek
• 'Star Trek' meets 'Star Wars' in an incredible sci-fi mashup

Free Comic Book Day; May the Fourth Be With You, Star Wars Sequels, Pics

Free Comic Book Day

• Three more characters join Daredevil's return to Marvel Studios
• Is Garfield Supposed To Be Funny?—A funny way to make money through licensing it seems.
• She Has No Head! – Anatomy Of A Comic Book Cover
• ComicCovers.com—Search through 50,000 comic book covers [c/o Boing Boing]
• The Adventures of Superman in England

May the Fourth be with You

• Star Wars: Machete Order
• This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For—The White House responds to call to build a Death Star.
• Star Wars "Call Me Maybe"
• If they turned R2D2 into a Death Star
• Confessions of a Star Wars Virgin
• Star Wars fans build full-size Millennium Falcon
• Inside the Battle of Hoth: The Empire Strikes Out—"The Battle of Hoth is the least-appreciated battlefield disaster for the Galactic Empire, an unmitigated fiasco. And we thought the Empire was supposed to strike back."
• Scotland may allow Jedi to perform marriage ceremonies

Star Wars Sequels

• 'Stand-alone' Star Wars films planned
• J. J. Abrams Says John Williams Will Return To Score Episode VII!
• Leia Is Not Enough: Star Wars and the Woman Problem in Hollywood
• How Disney Bought Lucasfilm—and Its Plans for 'Star Wars'
• PvPOnline on the new film

Pics

• First look at Star Wars Miniland at Legoland California
• Empire Strikes Back behind-the-scenes
• Star Wars Travel Posters—Check out Steve Thomas' site.
• Leia Overcomes Daddy Issues as Vader's Little Princess
• Trick or Treat

Space Day: May the Fourth Be With You, Star Wars Lego, Sun and Moon, Solar System, Universe, Dark Matter, Space Station

May the Fourth Be With You

• Star Wars Uncut: Director's Cut
• Top 10 Worst Changes Made to Star Wars
• "Return of the Jedi" is the Best Star Wars Movie of All Time
• Troops
• Jedi Assholes
• "Punch it..."
• "It's a Trap!"

Star Wars Lego

• Lego Plays Star Wars Secret Santa
• LEGO Superstar Destroyer
• LEGO Chess Set
• LEGO fun
• Daddy Stormtrooper
• Damn It Chewy!
• Storm Tripper

Sun and Moon

• Top 10 Sun Myths
• Huge tornadoes discovered on the Sun
• When did the giant impact that formed the Moon take place?
• Watch how the Moon was formed
• 'Earth's other moons

Solar System

• Rise of the Super-Earths Salon
• Venus to Appear in Once-In-A-Lifetime Event
• Jupiter's melting heart sheds light on mysterious exoplanet
• I've never been so scared of Jupiter
• Uranus takes a pounding more frequently than thought

Universe

• Voyager 1 has made it to "cosmic purgatory" according to NASA.
• The Known Universe by AMNH
• 'The Scale of the Universe,' by Two Teenage Brothers
• Infant galaxy offers tantalizing peek at early Universe
• Symphony of Science - 'The Big Beginning'
• Galaxy Song

Dark Matter

• Australian Student Astronomer Finds Universe's Missing Mass
• Astronomers map the universe's dark matter at unprecedented scale
• Dark-Matter Mystery: Why Are 400 Stars Moving as if There's Nothing There?
• Dark matter theories challenged by galaxy discoveries
• The dark matter pelting your body right now: A guide

Space Station

• Amazing Timelapse Video from the Space Station
• Space station crew excitedly awaits private spaceship visit
• Blast from the Past: Funnyman Colbert gets less lofty namesake

Star Wars Weekend, Posters and Lego, Media, Fucks News, Hoodwinking the News

Star Wars Weekend

• What "Star Wars" can teach my son about life Salon
• Why 'Star Wars' Is Secretly Terrifying for Women
• The real George Lucas has been imprisoned for 20 years while an impostor ran amok, making prequels

Star Wars Posters

• The classic 'Star Wars' poster and The Force of history
• Lovely Star Wars posters--Created by same guy who made this cool retro Thor poster.
• Star Wars Posters by Tom Whalen
• Incredible Star Wars Propaganda Posters
• Hungarian Film Posters

Lego Star Wars

• Avanaut's Photostream
• Star Wars' Battle of Hoth, LEGO Style!
• Legoland trains Web cam on 'Star Wars' Miniland

Media

• Bill Moyers Discusses Independent Media and Fighting Back Against Unbridled Corporate Greed and Power
• WashPost: criminal law is not for political elites--What's telling is that these are the newspapers protecting these guys and no longer putting them to a higher standard like they used to. Salon
• Keith Olbermann on Why He Left MSNBC - and How He Plans to Get Even
• Aaron Sorkin: What I Read
• MSNBC Replaces Fox News

Fucks News

• How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory
• The Elephant in the Green Room--"The circus Roger Ailes created at Fox News made his network $900 million last year. But it may have lost him something more important: the next election."
  
• The Chasers on Fox News
• How You End Up Bankrolling Fox News: News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch Weasel Out of Paying Taxes
• Study: Fox News Viewers “Most Misinformed” Of All News Consumers
• Anderson Cooper Criticizes Sean Hannity For Misleading Edit
• Jon Stewart to Bill O’Reilly: Fox News is a 'selective outrage machine'
• Megyn Kelly and Fox News Helped Sen. Ensign Cover-Up His Crimes
• Regulators Reject Proposal That Would Bring Fox-Style News to Canada
• Fox fooled by "Muslim ban on padded bras" hoax

Hoodwinking the news

• Urban fox hunt video was hoax aimed at the media, say film-makers
• Pranksters print spoof NY Times
• Instant replay: Alleged yo-yo champ dupes TV shows
  

Yoda man, Chewy, Language, Accent, xkcd

Yoda man

• Meet the Yodas
• Origami
• PVP Online: Forced Perspective

Chewy

• George Lucas Stole Chewbacca, But It’s Okay
• Chewy's first day of school
• "What's for dinner Dad?"

Language

• How 'OK' took over the world
• What ever happened to "You're welcome"?
• How Fail Went From Verb to Interjection
• Schott's Vocab
• The Birth of a Word--MIT researcher Deb Roy parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch his son's "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water."

Accent

• The real sound of Shakespeare?
• Which Brit has the best American accent?
• What American English sounds like to non-English speakers--A deliberately nonsensical song
• How English sounds in 24 Different Accents
• Foreign accent syndrome

xkcd

• Adjectives
• Consecutive Vowels
• Literally

Hail to the Empire, The Dark Side, War For Oil, Wall Street, Wikileaks

Hail to the Empire

• Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says
• Daddy's going to work today.
• The Force is strong in this Juan
• The Empire Invades Your Bedroom With This Imperial Walker Bunk Bed
• Rare 1980 "Empire Hotline" Recordings Discovered

The Dark Side

• The Dark Side doesn’t have an age requirement
• 5 Scientific Reasons The Dark Side Will Always Win
• Volkswagen Commercial: The Force

War For Oil

• Comin' this summer... $5 gas
• Wikileaks: Speculators Helped Cause Oil Bubble
• WikiLeaks cables show that it was all about the oil
• Wikileaks Cables: U.S. Worked To Scuttle Haiti Gas Development Deal On Behalf Of Big Oil
• Saudi prince calls for lower oil prices--"We don't want the West to go and find alternatives, because, clearly, the higher the price of oil goes, the more they have incentives to go and find alternatives."
• Senate votes down bill to end oil company subsidies, see how they voted and who gets oil money
• With Speculation Running Rampant, House GOP Proposes 15 Percent Cut To Oil Market Watchdog
• Eric Cantor Promises Oil Speculators That Republicans Will Block Financial Regulations
• Why Gas Is So Expensive Today (Hint: It's Not Libya)
• The CIA Accurately Predicted How Long World Oil Supplies Would Last—in 1978

Wall Street

• Wall Street's War On America: Why Are We Chasing Terrorists Instead Of Banksters
• The failure of shareholder capitalism--"Companies exist for their workers and their communities -- not just their CEOs and their investors" Salon
• Dennis Kucinich: The Founders Did Not Intend For America to Be Run By Big Banks and Wall Street

Wikileaks

• WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
• Wikileaks: no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square, cables claim
  
• Hay Festival 2011: Julian Assange claims FBI tried to bribe Wikileaks staff

Death Star, AT-AT, Curses, Send in the Clone Tools, Time Eaters

Death Star

• The Most Iconic Fictional Vehicle: The Death Star
• DEATH STAR - Very Demotivational
• Watermelon Death Star
• "Star light, star bright..."
• What really happened to Endor when they ganked the Death Star

AT-AT

• AT-AT Day
• Underachieving AT-ATs
• AT-AT bed

Curses

• Briton arrested for swearing 'beaten to death' in Dubai police cell--What the fuck.
• The curse of the foul-language law--Fuck you, Australia.
• It's OK to tell police officers to 'f*ck off'--In Canada.
• Swearing can help relieve pain, study claims
• China makes arrests to stop 'vulgar' content
• Decency group goes after YouTube users' comments
• How to Curse with Flair
• Stephen Fry on the Joys of Swearing
• Bleeping Expletives
• Review: Fuc_ __u, _ss__le
• Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programming language

Send in the Clone Tools

• I'd do me.
• Homo Orgy
• Bruce Willies

Time eaters--You've been warned.

• Liquid Particles
• string spin
• BallDroppings

Star Wars Weekend, Medicare, Rape-upblicans, Abortion, Racism

Star Wars Weekend

• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II - Robot Chicken Commercial
• Basic Instructions - How to Criticize Someone You Respect Deeply
• Star Wars vs. Star Trek
• Star Wars Crayola
• How the Star War Prequels should have ended

Medicare

• McConnell puts Medicare in the ransom note--Threatens with economic blackmail, the same way Boehner is "saying he expects $2 trillion in cuts or he’ll deliberately cause an economic catastrophe."
• Senate Republicans Vote Overwhelmingly To End Medicare
• Despite What Boehner Says, Republicans Have Voted To Cut Medicare, Repeatedly
• Just Because Rep. Paul Ryan Keeps Saying It…--And in fact, his plan will increase health care spending.
• GOP Medicare debacle proves Americans 'love socialized medicine after all'
• Democrat Kathy Hochul Wins Upset In NY-26, Medicare Vote Key To Victory--Democrats are winning the message war.
• GOP Rep. Rob Woodall To Old People on Medicare: Suck it up and take care of yourself

Rape-ublicans

• House GOP Unanimously Passes Anti-Abortion Bill That Redefines Rape, Raises Taxes, And Creates Rape Audits--Republicans and some Democrats are literally wasting taxpayers' time and money with constituent-pandering stunts like this.
• Kansas Rep. Pete DeGraaf: Being impregnated during a rape is just like getting a flat tire--MoJo explains its all.
• Republican Asks Women To Plan Ahead For Rape

Abortion

• Abortion saved my life--"My two kids at home almost lost their mother because someone decided that my life was worth less than that of a fetus that was going to die anyway." Salon
• House committee blocks amendment that would allowed military health plans to cover "abortion for servicewomen who are victims of rape and incest."
• Texas Passes 'Emergency' Anti-Abortion Bill Requiring Women To See Sonogram 24 Hours Before An Abortion
• Louisiana House committee approves ban on abortions
• Louisiana Republican: Ban Abortion, Sterilize Poor Women and Pay the Wealthy to Procreate
• Wikipedia: Christianity and Abortion--Back in the day, "[a]bortions were allowed so long as the soul was not yet rational. Aquinas took Aristotle's views further by allowing abortion for the first 116 days of pregnancy, after which time the fetus was considered to be rational."
• Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex--It's "literally unbelievable" to read the reactions from those who thought this Onion satire was for real. Those who wrote these Yelp reviews got it. The Onion

Racism

• Bill Maher: The GOP Treats Obama Like An Unwanted Black Man at the Country Club
• Rep. Walsh: Obama Was Only Elected Because He’s An ‘Articulate’ ‘Black Man’
• Oklahoma GOPer: It's A Fact That 'Blacks' Don't Work As Hard

PATRIOT Act Extension, Star Wars Weekend, IP, ACTA, G20, Youtube Censorship

Patriot Act Extension Signed By Obama--And just hours right after Congress approved it and hours before its midnight expiration. That's change you can believe in. Queue up the American War Machine.

Star Wars Weekend

• Top 278 Star Wars Lines Improved By Replacing A Word With "Pants"
• Make-A-Wish turns one child's backyard into the Millennium Falcon
• Darth Vader actor David Prowse warns beware of small print
• Store wars as Tesco bans Jedi Knight
• Have You Met My New Girlfriend?

IP

• Senator Blocks Bill Giving Feds Power to Blacklist Piracy Sites--Give it up for Senator Ron Wyden (D).
• Mozilla tells DHS: we won't help you censor the Internet--Talk about chilling effects.
• Leahy's Protect IP bill even worse than COICA--White House wants new copyright law crackdown
• CCIA: copyright wiretaps are Hollywood's "PATRIOT Act"
• The Senators Who Say Merely Linking To Certain Sites Should Be A Felony
• Revised 'Net censorship bill requires search engines to block sites, too
• Being Concerned With Free Speech Implications Of PROTECT IP Does Not Mean You Think You're Above The Law
• Why Web host shut down 73,000 blogs a mystery
• US Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, 'By Mistake'
• Congresswoman: mistakenly seized sites should sue the government

ACTA

• America fields "Son of ACTA" -- a new, sinister, secret copyright treaty
• Support a firm, simple declaration against ACTA
• Obama administration won't release secret ACTA docs either

G20

• Pc faces G20 manslaughter charge
• Into The Fire--Police State at G20 Canada
• Violent suppression of protest at Toronto's G20
• Staggering' conditions on accused G20 ringleader
• Plain-clothes officers 'were deployed at G20 demo'

Government Orders You Tube To Censor Protest Videos--The Western governments don't want an Arab Spring of their own.

May the Fourth Be With You; Do Overs and Remixes

May the Fourth Be With You

• Star Wars: A New Heap--"Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Death Star
• Star Wars: Building "Empire" by "Jambe Davda"--A fan documentary
• 19 Facts You May Not Have Known About the Star Wars Universe
• Early Star Wars Storyboards
• Year in Star Wars 2010

Do Overs and Remixes

• 7 Quotes That Could Have Saved The Star Wars Prequels
• Mario vs. Star Wars: Misha's Pop Culture Mash-Up Paintings
• Entire Star Wars "A New Hope" in MS Paint
• 1950s version of The Empire Strikes Back
• What if Luke Skywalker missed?
• "How did my Father die?"
• Incestuous Undertones in Star Wars