From April Fools to reality: NYT explores origins of Thinkgeek’s tauntaun sleeping bag
Thinkgeek and their tauntaun sleeping bag has made the mainstream: A profile in The New York Times. Mostly a retailer, ThinkGeek does very little licensing and manufacturing, and its attempts to get a meeting with Lucasfilm to work out the rights to make the sleeping bag went nowhere. “We’

New show to explore sci-fi science, including lightsabers
The first episode of Sci-Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible, which premieres Tuesday on the Science Channel, will take a look at lightsabers and a Stargateesque portal. Sure, the History Channel has been-there done-that, but the more the merrier. As for the ones in the pictures… I doubt those are actual plasma tubes,

Santa Maul has awakened! He wants a doughnut.
Santa Maul gave his Black Friday spiel last year, and he’s particularly cracky today, so will just get to it. Remember, the more shopping you do, the more websites Santa Maul gets to crash, and the happier he will become. Also, now he is on Twitter, where he will be posting any further deals he finds today. Another Sith whoring himself out for low, low prices… Star Wa

Highlights from Rifftrax’s mocking of Revenge of the Sith, The Empire Strikes Back, and Star Wars
In the spirit of Turkey Day… (Man, do I miss Turkey Day.) Laugh more with highlights from The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and, of course, Twilight. (There are even more on Youtube if you need to waste more time.)

Reviewing The Clone Wars: ‘Legacy of Terror’
With a title like ‘Legacy of Terror’, you could expect almost anything that could inspire a fright, and yet while there’s the horror of the walking dead in an underground labyrinth and Ceti eel-inspired mind control, the Jedi protagonists act without fear, defusing the tension in this episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. After the successful re-invasion and missions