Seriously, Darth Goofy?

George Lucas has sold Lucasfilm, and by extension the rights to the Star Wars franchise, to the Walt Disney Company for $4.05 billion.  Oh, lord...

I think the above picture pretty much says it all - just shoot me now, somebody.

- Sid

Is the correct pronunciation "Godzilla" or "Gojira"?

Reuters International reports that radiation may be leaking into the ocean from the damaged Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan.

I guess we all know what that means...

- Sid

P.S. Just for the record, I thought that the 1998 version of Godzilla was a well-designed update to the classic monster.  Which, also for the record, doesn't mean that it was a good movie, just a good monster.

Geek of the Week!

This week’s Geek of the Week* award goes to Donovan Hides, who was generous enough to offer me one of the distressed stone coasters that were being given away at The Storm Crow during his lunchtime visit on Friday. Each one of these attractive additions to the geek household comes with a different Dungeons and Dragons excerpt lacquered onto the back. Thank again, Donovan!

- Sid

*Just to be clear, I have no intention of doing this on a weekly basis, but Geek of the Month just didn’t have the same ring to it, and I'm not certain that this is big enough to warrant the prize for Geek of the Year.