pixelbomb

You have got to be kidding me. Seriously, both the left and right wing fanatics need to calm down. IT IS A MOVIE PEOPLE!!! Leave it at that, please.

Latest ‘Star Wars’ Movie Is Quickly Politicized
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER

Published: May 19, 2005

LOS ANGELES, May 18 - For sheer lack of subtlety, the light-saber-wielding forces of good and evil in George Lucas’s “Star Wars” movies can’t hold a candle to the blogging, advertising and boycotting forces of the right and left. (Or left and right.)

More a measure of the nation’s apparently permanent political warfare than of a filmmaker’s intent, the heroes and antiheroes of Mr. Lucas’s final entry, “Episode III - Revenge of the Sith,” were on their way to becoming the stock characters of partisan debate by mid-Wednesday, hours before the film’s opening just after midnight:

[Full Article]

Why innovate when you can duplicate? Samsung unveils their own “RAZR” phone:

Samsung Sch-V740

Samsung announced their own RAZR version of mobile phone, SCH-v740, will compete head to head with Motorola RAZR CDMA version in Korea. The CDMA EV-DO mobile phone is only 14.5mm thick, almost same as RAZR’s 14mm. Samsung Sch-v740 will be available in CDMA version first. Both Motorola RAZR and Samsung Sch-v740 support bluetooth, and have 1.3 megapixel camera.

[via Phone Magazine]

Where’d the baseball go?

Video: baseball.wmv

A nuclear attack sub tried to takeout a mountain head on, and lost:

Adrift 500 Feet Under the Sea, a Minute Was an Eternity

By CHRISTOPHER DREW
Published: May 18, 2005

APRA HARBOR, Guam, May 16 - Blood was everywhere. Sailors lay sprawled across the floor, several of them unconscious, others simply dazed. Even the captain was asking, “What just happened?” All anyone knew for sure was that the nuclear-powered attack submarine had slammed head-on into something solid and very large, and that it had to get to the surface fast.

[Full Article]

Where’s a taxi when you need one — perhaps at the central taxi depot at JFK?

[via Google Sightseeing]

Oh boy — you decide either “oh boy dot dot dot” or “oh BOYEEE!”

Ummm … why?

[via Elvis Trooper]

More on Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith:

This is by far the best film in the more recent trilogy, and also the best of the four episodes Mr. Lucas has directed. That’s right (and my inner 11-year-old shudders as I type this): it’s better than “Star Wars.”

“Revenge of the Sith,” which had its premiere here yesterday at the Cannes International Film Festival, ranks with “The Empire Strikes Back” (directed by Irvin Kershner in 1980) as the richest and most challenging movie in the cycle.

[Full Article]

Any ideas what this is?

Tensuns says:

I have no idea what this is. I can’t find anything similar on any google map referenced sites. It doesn’t show up on terraserver and I live nearby so I know there are no towers in that area. It has the same shadow as ground objects and when you zoom out it appears to be too small to be something really close to the satellite.

Well we’re completely stumped. Any clues anyone?

[via Google Sightseeing]

In a year.

The image on the left was taken during the emergency evacuation of the Capitol building on June 9th, 2004. The image on the right is during the emergency evacuation of the Cannon House office builing on Capitol Hill on May 11th, 2005.

[via AP]