Star Wars.....the obsession continues...

I have written about Star Wars in many places here on the blog. It was a major trans formative event in my life when my father took me to see the film in 1977. We stood in line (the first time I ever recall standing in line to see a movie, now a somewhat common place occurrence)and after the movie he took me to the local T-shirt shop and got me a "May The Force Be With You" T-shirt. I wore it until the heat transfered decal cracked and peeled into a pointillist representation of the film.
I am not a Star Wars collector I leave that to Tommy Mac.
I do however want my son to become a fan. With that in mind I have purchased him the Star Wars Lego games for Playstation( Happy 50thBirthday btw to Lego.) They have gone virtually ignored until 3 days ago. Suddenly he is obsessed and asking me how I know just what it is we are supposed to do in each scene. I have been explaining the context of these challenges to him and we have been enjoying it together. He even suggested that he might want to watch the films! My fingers are crossed. With that in mind I thought I'd do a little Star Wars in the blogosphere post as several recent articles delivered via GReader have focused on Star Wars and shown that I am not the only one who still loves anything to do with Star Wars!
First up....Star Wars/Disney Mash-ups at Deviant Art (thanks too BoingBoing!)
Over at deviantART.com user Thumper-001 has uploaded a series of Starwars/Disney Mash-up pics that are just awesome. I am also a Disney fan, and I DO collect disneyanna. These Are really cool, and even a little strange. Some are official and others...well...I doubt either Disney or Lucas put their stamp of approval here.

Next up ThinkGeek.com
offers the Japanese Star Wars Lightsaber Desk Lamp in all it's geeky glory.... Can I just say OMFG Yeah! Now a way to not only signal your love of all things SW but also to make your allegiance known. From the Think Geek site....

...we've devised a genius way to determine office force alliances for sure. Each employee places one of these nifty glowing Lightsaber Desk Lamps next to their red stapler... those paying allegiance to the powerful dark side can choose the red Vader lamp. While weaklings on their moral high-horses can sport the green Luke lamp. Of course they're always some employees who have to be obnoxious and swing both ways by placing one of each lightsaber lamp color on their desk.

This little stroke of brilliance is only $19.99 and is available at ThinkGeek.com



And finally...20th Century Studios has declared the Star Wars lightsaber the #1 film weapon of all time! I couldn't agree with the masses more! Here's the complete Top 10

Top 10 Favourite Movie Weapons

1. Lightsabre (Star Wars)

2. .44 Magnum (Dirty Harry)

3. Bullwhip (Indiana Jones)

4. Samurai sword (Kill Bill)

5. Chainsaw (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)

6. Golden Gun (James Bond - The Man With The Golden Gun)

7. Bow and arrow (Robin Hood)

8. Machine gun (Scarface)

9. The Death Star (Star Wars)

10. Bowler hat (James Bond - Goldfinger)

Now you'll have to excuse me I have to go help my son make his first run at destroying The Death Star...Lego Style!

May the Force be with you.

RSS? Feeds? Questions?? ANSWERS!

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Ok so you've heard me talk about my Greader, and you've maybe even checked out the "Cool Shit from around the web" on the Left Sidebar, but you still don't get what a GReader is, why you should have one, and why you won't know how you lived without one. Well this little video is going to make it CRYSTAL clear. It will explain all these things and more. RSS? Feeds?? If this sounds like some mysterious Geek language. Click play and prepare to be Geekified! The Future is NOW! Learn, FIRE UP, and Read! Thanks to the Folks at The Common Craft Show, and to The gang at the Google Reader Blog for bringing this to me...in my GReader of course!

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I can't do it...not even with tools!

This is pretty freakin weird but strangely fascinating. I came by it in my GReader from the folks at FARK, who grabbed it from College Humor....(is that Web 2.0 convoluted enough for all you geeks out there?)

I have a thing about circles. I hated "proofs" in math class, I hated protractors, whatever... i cannot, and have never drawn even a decent circle. Then I see this guy and I'm like, "Whoa!" and "Why?" all at the same time.

Searching YouTube Videos

We watch alot of YouTube videos around here. Some are absolutely horrible and some are abso-fuckin-lutely horrible. Finding the video you are really looking for can be a real pain in the ass. Since every 12 year old schmuck in the universe has figured out that adding a bunch of porn-spam-tags to the description of his nose picking Vlog will earn him views (even if there's no real traffic there) it can be hard to search out content you'd really want to watch. Enter PodZinger, the site that enables keyword searches within audio and video podcasts, now lets you search inside YouTube videos as well. This came to us in the GReader from Lifehacker.....

Now besides simply searching on the metadata of the video files, you can search for terms that are actually mentioned inside the audio, allowing for a greater likelihood you will find relevant material.

I don't have any clue yet if the product really works but i can tell you this...if the gang at Lifehacker put it up it ain't too shabby. They rarely miss. So if you listen to lots of Podcasts, or you're just wondering if there are YouTube videos out there that mention you by name, give PodZinger a try and see what's out there.

George Washington - The Video

This struck me as some super funny shit and I wasn't even high! I guess this is friggin huge though today when it popped up in the Daily Reel feed in my GReader was the first I had seen it. This is proof that I am starting to get old. I get to the truly twisted but cool shit late! The video was created by cartoonist Brad Neely whose weird and wacky shit can be found at Creased Comics. The song is hysterical. I have heard alot of the myths referred to in the song repeated from so called intelligent folks in the know...Enjoy the video!