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• How Star Wars changed the world – Interactive map from Wired showing Star Wars’ influence on film and technology
• Post-Punk – Collection of great and some not so great ‘post-punk’ band videos including this and this from one of my all time favourites, Chrome.
• Say What? Worth watching, House Industries trailer footage of the great Ed Rondthaler founder of Photo-Lettering, Inc.

• A galaxy not so far away – Great photo essay in this Saturday’s Guardian Weekend about sci-fi fans who like to dress up as their heroes. Photo’s are by Steve Schofield.
• Blow Up – Image view that hooks into the Flickr API and lets you view your images full screen

• Want!. Ampersand themed T-Shirts, mousemats and sculpture from House Industries
• Jedi Gym – “Star Wars is all about the Hero’s Journey, and so is working out”

• Star Wars ‘Icon Series’ – Star War’s inspired T-Shirts and posters designed by Mitch aka Mitchy Bwoy.
• Show Us a Better Way. UK Government sponsored competition set-up by MP Tom Watson’s Power of Information Taskforce for the best use of publicly available data. There’s some great idea’s coming in already.
• iA have released an online version of their 2008 Web Trend Map

• Pentragram discuss their work on the new brand identity for AkzoNobel
• If I had some spare time I’d spend it on these two projects. A paper V12 four-stroke Engine and R2D2
• Kids on decks, rocking the house
• Guardian article covering the recent MySpace redesign which focus on usability, interaction and a ‘more intuitive, customisable, and private experience’. Be interesting to see if they’ve made changes to the underlying structural code which has always been a mess and whether they’re going to migrate their backend from Coldfusion.

• Star Wars R2D2 DVD Projector with Millennium Falcon remote. Check out the video.
• In anticipation of ‘Indiana Jones and The Crystal Skull‘ here’s some Indiana Jones icons from the Icon Factory
• The Impossible Art Of Li Wei – great performance art from Chinese artist Li Wei which sort of reminds me of Johan Lorbeer’s work. Via Hemmy.net

• Meek·FM Typographic Synth develops sounds and typographic visuals in parallel. The hardware looks amazing and includes controls such as other serif and serif length
• Ending plane set scramble – Astrophysicist Jason Steffen has come up with an algorithm to improve the boarding of aircraft via The Observer
• Just imagine if Saul Bass had done the title sequence for Star Wars. If only!
• Synthetique – Free bitmap font from Blue vinyl

Great performance of Crazy from Gnarls Barkley at the MTV Movie Awards with Cee-Lo dressed as Darth Vader, Danger Mouse as Obi-Wan Kenobi and drummer Chris Vrenna as Chewbacca.

Authentic costumes were supplied by Lucas Films. So far we’ve seen them dressed as characters from ‘A Clockwork Orange’, ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’, ‘Napoleon Dynamite’, ‘Waynes World’, ‘Cheech and Chong’, ‘Wizard of Oz’ for Coachella 2006 and as airline pilots on the BBC’s Top of the Pops.