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— someone needs to make a combined one that grabs referers from Technorati, Bloglines, and so on #Video: Sims-style anti-pregnancy commercial for teen girls
— accurate look and feel from the Belgian public health dept. via Darren Barefoot #UK guerilla artist Banksy installs own pictures in four museums
— it took them several days to notice and remove the beautiful works #Anil Dash's tribute to Suck.com
— I wrote Suck their first fan letter, almost ten years ago (as “Flyp Doink”) #"White pride" news site in Google News
— news sources are still hand-picked by Google Editors, right? #Nazi forum posts by Minnesota school shooter Jeff Weise
— he killed nine yesterday before killing himself; here’s his Livejournal, too via Nelson Minar #The PC Forum Long Tail drinking game
— I would’ve slipped into an alcohol-induced coma by day 2 of ETech #Jon Udell's inspiring comments on Upcoming.org
— read my response; I’ve committed to making some big changes by next Monday #Using the Powerbook motion sensor to control Neverball and Google Maps
— an extension of this article, don’t miss the three videos via Kottke #Rejected e-mails from the Snopes inbox
— extremely gullible people ask Snopes to verify the truthfulness of jokes #Slashdot redesigning with XHTML and CSS
— don’t worry, it’ll still be just as ugly to look at via Ethan Marcotte #The Rhys-Davies Episode III Hoax
— how a prank e-mail became fact, reported in the online and offline media via Delicious #Flash: Kristan Horton remade Dr. Strangelove with household objects
— here’s an interview with the artist; warning, audio #PSP Video 9
— download, convert and copy video to your PSP using BitTorrent and RSS via gigaom.com #Ourmedia alpha launches
— partnered with Archive.org, free tool to host and discuss grassroots media #Star Wars Kid TV Tribute Roundup
It’s been almost two years since the Star Wars Kid video, but the tributes keep coming.
Tonight, “Arrested Development” featured an obvious SWK homage. In a flashback, the family stumbles on a tape-recording of George Michael, the teenage son of Jason Bateman’s character, doing his lightsaber moves. (Thank to Matt for the video.)
Video: swk_arrested_development.mpg (10MB, MPEG2)
While I’m at it, here’s a video clip I’ve been sitting on since late last year from the Cartoon Network’s “Venture Brothers.” From Episode 106, a winged henchman tries to fight Brock with a junk lightsaber. Before he does, he performs some very familiar fighting moves…
Video: swk_venture_brothers.mov (5MB, Quicktime)
And, for the completists out there, episodes of two other shows were entirely based on the Star Wars Kid ordeal. In Episode 76 of “Ed,” aired December 2003, an overweight high school student recorded himself doing a dance. After the video is stolen, leaked online, and remixed into a catwalk-style fashion video, he asks Ed to help seek damages in civil court. In the end, he decides to drop the charges and embraces his geekiness by repeating the dance moves in the high school halls. The fifth episode of “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends,” aired September 2004, was full of geek in-jokes and SWK parallels. The TV Tome description rounds it up nicely.
Finally, because I get asked occasionally, I have no new Star Wars Kid news. He’s never tried to contact me, and I haven’t tried to follow up in any way. I don’t know the outcome of the lawsuits or what Ghyslain is up to. If anyone out there knows, I’d love to know how he’s doing.
June 26, 2006: Here’s a clip from the September 25, 2005 episode of “American Dad.”