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It's been done before, but not this well. This one is finely executed, down to the warped film and John Williams theme played on a piano. It was made by a French team in 2007 and modified this past June.
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Previously: The Empire Strikes Back (1950)
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In a brief 2009 interview, Mark Hamil denied ever shooting the long-lost lightsaber scene from Return of the Jedi.
It's a conspiracy!
In the comments, propose elements of and motivations for this plot.
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What is the meaning of a double rainbow, asked Yosemitebear. The greatest minds are still pondering this mystical conundrum. In the meantime, YouTube user Disasteradio remixed the double rainbow video with scenes from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in which Bowman approaches the monolith.
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You do what you have to do to pay the bills. Flickr user torakamikaze suggests that Sonic may have to resort to selling off his gold rings.
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The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra once performed an operatic rendition of the theme music and story of Final Fantasy VI. Eliot Hagen integrated it into the video presentation of game, and the result is this amazing video. Full credits are available at the video link.
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Power Girl is very popular among both faculty and students. Once again, cartoonist Caldwell Tanner offers a set of funny cartoons, this time depicting Marvel and DC heroes in their college days. Six more at the link.
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Previously by Caldwell Tanner: Video Game Characters in College
Scottish DC writer Grant Morrison has some interesting observations about the social class differences between Batman and Superman:
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Bruce Wayne is a rich man. He's an artistocrat. Superman grew up as Clark Kent on a farm bailing hay, and he's got a boss that shouts at him if he's late to work. He's actually more human; Batman is the fetish fantasy psyche of the aristocrat overlord who can do anything he wants, and that's fascinating. The class difference between the two of them is important.[...]
People often forget Superman is very much a put-upon guy. Bruce has a butler, Clark has a boss
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OMG! Shatner was fooling around at a con and decided to photobomb some Trek cosplayers posting for a picture!
Well, possibly. But look at the name in the bottom left corner. It's Rachel McCauley, a professional photograher and photoshop artist.
Be assured that if The Shatner wished to photobomb you, you would be photobombed. Nothing could stop him. But I suspect that this isn't real.
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Marvel has come out with a new webseries. The Handi-Cats is about a blind, flying supercat and a bionically-enhanced disabled cat who try to correct the BP oil spill. It's based on a bestselling memoir by Gwen Cooper about a blind cat who brings meaning into Cooper's life.
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"I say that we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." You know, over the years, I've found that there are very few problems for which this is not an appropriate solution.
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A long-lost scene from Return of Jedi was displayed at Star Wars Celebration V. It shows Luke tinkering with a lightsaber. Someone secretly recorded it and uploaded it to YouTube. Watch it while it's still available.
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Artist Steve Thomas made three LOTR travel posters in an Art Deco style. I'd love to see one for Mordor.
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In one particular set of Peanuts strips by Charles Schultz, Snoopy is writing a novel. In 1981, Len Wein from DC Comics took the script from these strips and turned them into a Batman comic.
For real. Click on the link to view Peanuts original and the resulting Batman comic.
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