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Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and three longtime board members are stepping down, fulfilling the wishes of many frustrated shareholders who believe the directors have been part of the problem that has dragged down the Internet company’s revenue and stock price.
Google’s highly-anticipated plan to build an ultra-fast city broadband network kicked into gear Monday with the search giant’s announcement that it will begin laying miles of fiber-optic cable across Kansas City, Kansas and neighboring Kansas City, Missouri. Google said it aims to create a new “high speed infrastructure” that will allow local citizens to enjoy data speeds 100 times the national average. Google’s goal? To show off its telecom engineering chops and showcase next-generation web-applications. Oh, and maybe shame the big national broadband providers into improving U.S. Internet service speed, which currently lags behind many other countries around the world.
Ten Freaky Songs About Star Wars
We begin our selection of musical tributes to Star Wars with the granddaddy of them all, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s immaculate “American Pie” rewrite “The Saga Begins”:
Of course, not all Star Wars tributes are quite as articulate. The ridiculous sci-fi punk rock trio Supernova went in the opposite direction for “Chewbacca”:
(More on Techland: Ten Jaw-Dropping Versions of the Star Wars Theme)
Nerdcore rap, part 1: “Irresistible Force” by 2 Skinnee J’s, here accompanied by Stormtrooper-costumed breakdancers.
Nerdcore rap, part 2: MC Chris’s Boba Fett tribute “Fett’s Vette,” as featured in Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
(More on Techland: What Star Wars Means to Me: How I Learned to Read Subtitles)
Half of the fun of Star Wars fandom, of course, is complaining about it: hence Hot Waffles and their unnervingly catchy number “George Lucas Raped Our Childhood” (which starts about a minute into this video).