A ship for every *other* letter in the alphabet. Jon Palmer is creating a Star Wars fighter out of LEGO for every letter in the alphabet (minus X,Y,B,A,E and V). He has about 5 to go. Check out the project on From Bricks to Bothans.

The Star Wars Kid is a 15-year-old from Quebec known only as Ghyslain -- his parents are keeping his last name secret to protect his identity. Back in November 2002, Ghyslain was goofing off at a school video studio and recorded himself fighting a mock battle with a broomstick lightsaber. Over two minutes, the video shows the lone, overweight teenager twirling his mock lightsaber ever faster while making his own accompanying sound effects.
Yes, we've all had our dorky, private moments, but this poor kid is living the nightmare of having his private dorkiness projected across the world to giggling Web users. His friends found the tape, and uploaded it to KaZaA as a joke on April 19. Within two weeks, someone had added full Star Wars special effects and noises to the tape, and the video was linked on gaming, technology, and Star Wars-related sites across the Internet. Currently There Are 28 Clone Videos on www.Jedimaster.net.

The beta version of Linux 2.6 has been released, aka the pre-2.6 kernels. As with previous stable releases, Joseph Pranevich has made a exquisite list of what's to be expected in the 2.6 kernel. The list is quite complete, and covers desktop and server features.

Do you realize you actually can choose the browser you are working with ? Why do you want to use a browser without any development or security patching ? So quit using Internet Explorer, and start using Mozilla : here are 101 things Mozilla can do and IE not. And in case you're still experiencing problems, head over to the excellent Mozilla Tips website. Check out this very cool Amazon XUL interface (only visible in Mozilla).

A group of Australian techies have put together an analysis matrix\r\nof the likelyhood of each SCO Unix claim being true, and what outcome would most likely result if so. You will notice that the purported decision matrix (implying a logical document with conclusions deduced by scientifc logic from given hypotheses) says at the bottom of all possible outcomes 'linux is unaffected'.

In case you hadn't guessed, this is far from the logical document the name suggests, but really a portrayal of one person's viewpoint. The conclusion, namely that linux is unaffected in all cases is probably false, as I can think. Not because Linux contains some intellectual property of SCO - that statement is false - but because of the fear, uncertainty and doubt which has been seed. IBM will probably stretch this lawsuit out over a year, to let SCO bleed as much as possible. Alas, the damage to Linux may already have been done, in the way that many managers will be reluctant to deploy Linux.