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A “ridiculously obsessed Star Wars fan” took it upon himself to rip all six Star Wars movies from DVD and overlay them into a grid together, the results of which are presented on the site Watching all six Star Wars movies simultaneously.

They’re my favorite movies, all six of them, including the special editions, and I don’t care what you think. No, I wasn’t looking for any amazing insight, I know it’s all coincidences, and some of them are kind of uninteresting coincidences, it’s just fun,and (apparently) it’s making me popular. People have been doing this with The Wizard of Oz and Dark Side of the Moon for a long time.

Just go look…

The video morning musume vs. lizard (Google Video) is hilarious but weird… 🙂

Citroën’s new commercial Happy Days is pretty damn funny… 🙂

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Boeing Blog report that “On Nov. 9-10, 2005, Boeing’s new 777-200LR flew from Hong Kong to London, setting a new world record for the longest commercial jetliner flight.” The flight took 22 hours and 43 minutes and traversed 11,664 nautical miles, smashing the “previous record of 9,200 nautical miles set by a 747-400 in 1989, as well as the 10,823 nautical mile flight by a 777-200ER in 1997.” Pretty cool…

Variety.com reports that besides the release of a fourth Terminator being in the works, a TV series tentatively titled The Sarah Connor Chronicles is in development. The series will supposedly “take place in the fictional time frame between the second and third Terminator features” when Sarah Connor’s character went on the run.

Because the Terminator franchise involves time travel and alternate futures, [writer Josh] Friedman believe he’ll be able to take a few plot liberties in the series – emphasis on “few.”

“The last thing I want to do is take a title and exploit it,” Friedman said. “The show needs to stand on its own while still being respectful of the franchise.”

Too late.

New York Magazine and galleycat report that Robert Henderson, the founder of The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, received an $80,000 advance for his upcoming book The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The tome, which will “codify Pastafarianism,” is set to come out on Valentine’s Day.

“My hope is that readers won’t know if I’m trying to make a point about pseudoscience or if I’m a complete nut,” says Henderson. “I’ll be really disappointed if it doesn’t spawn a cult.”

This news makes me very happy.

As a follow-up to one of the items in my post below, televangelist Pat Robertson now asserts:

I’d like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don’t turn to God. You just rejected Him from your city.

What a dick.

Atmospheric Optics presents an amazing array of atmospheric phenomena:

Light playing on water drops, dust or ice crystals in the atmosphere produces a host of visual spectacles – rainbows, halos, glories, coronas and many more. Some can be seen almost every day or so, some are once in a lifetime sights. Find out where to see them and how they form. Then seek and enjoy them outdoors.

I thought it was a joke when I read that “the cardboard box was enshrined Friday in the National Toy Hall of Fame along with Jack-in-the-Box and Candy Land,” but apparently it is true.

“I think every adult has had that disillusioning experience of picking what they think is a wonderful toy for a child, and then finding the kid playing with the box,” said Christopher Bensch, chief curator of the Strong Museum. “It’s that empty box full of possibilities that the kids can sense and the adults don’t always see.”

I guess I can see that, and the first thing that came to mind is the Simpsons episode Rosebud where Maggie’s attachment to Mr. Burn’s bear Bobo is momentarily transferred to a box on Homer’s head. Still, a cardboard box?