It’s Star Wars Day, that wonderful time of year where the collective Internet body comes together to make cheeky puns about our favorite fantasy universe.
Let’s face it: Star Wars Day is an Internet holiday, something to distract us between water cooler breaks and office memos, but it’s joyous nonetheless. Today, Lucas Film announced …
The next iPhone case you purchase will surely be this $35 Steve Jobs in Carbonite masterpiece found over on Society6.com’s website.
“But Doug, $35 is far too expensive for a plastic iPhone case,” you say. Remember the part about how it’s Steve Jobs in Carbonite, though.
While it’ll almost certainly be your next iPhone case, Wired …
What do you get when you spend $1.2 billion on triple laser laboratories in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania? Try: The building blocks for a mind-boggling super laser that’s almost “didn’t I see that in a Keanu Reeves flick?” powerful.
How much power are we talking? Probably not enough, say, to take out a planet with one …
America is great for an endless number of reasons. But the freedom to spend outlandish amounts of money on nerd-ish pursuits that hold no greater meaning other than they’d be ridiculously, freakishly awesome? Our founding fathers smile down.
Which is why we have to get behind this project to build a life-sized, fully operational AT-AT …
Many people might say that Legoland is just for kids, but there’s often awesome exhibits that people of all ages can enjoy. The new Star Wars feature, opening on March 31 in Legoland California, is something that your whole family can peruse. Featuring animated scenes from the movies and the Clone Wars series, the exhibit took eight …
We all knew it was coming, but now we have a tentative release date: Expect the entire Star Wars six-movie blu-ray set to be out in September. Check out the fans eagerly anticipating the Star Wars blu-ray announcement at CES (when they were probably supposed to be reporting on important news …
Normally I would scoff at anyone who decided to review movies years after they were released when there’s no new material about the title coming out. However, when the review comes from Mike Stoklasa, aka Harry Plinkett, his long-winded, extremely detailed and completely accurate reviews are always a welcome opinion.
Six years after …
As we close the door on 2010, you might find yourself wondering, “What was that year all about?” Well, finally you can find out, thanks to Hitwise listing the most searched-for terms on the internet over the last fifty-two weeks. For example, Facebook owned the year. Not only was “facebook” the most searched-for term of the year (with …
Okay, so NASA hasn’t announced that it’s discovered evidence of extra-terrestrial life, as was rumored/hoped for as soon as today’s press conference was announced earlier this week. And while the discovery of an entirely new lifeform that redefines life as we know it is nothing to be sneezed at – Anything that actually deserves the …
Irvin Kershner, director of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back has died, Agence France-Presse reported. Kershner, an American director best known for his work on Empire, as well as Never Say Never Again and RoboCop II, was suffering from “a long illness” according to his family and died in Los Angeles.
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Today marks the end of Anti-Bullying Week, but for all the kids out there who still get teased and taunted for being a little bit different, it’s a problem that persists for most of their lives. Young Katie Goldman is just one example. Her mother, a writer for Chicago Now’s Portrait of Adoption blog, posted a story today about how …
When a young filmmaker named George Lucas pitched his idea for a space saga, FOX and most people were wondering how he was going to pull it off. The movie called for more cuts, action sequences and imaginative landscapes that had never been done before. When the studio asked him how he planed to do that, though Lucas had no clue he …
