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Will Femia is a Weblog enthusiast who, through good fortune and dumb luck, was introduced to the form as his position as chat producer for MSNBC.com careered into obsolescence. On any given day, Will can be found having already spent an unhealthy amount of time squinting at a computer screen.

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Friday

Posted: Friday, May 08, 2009 3:21 PM by Will Femia

Holy moly this is amazing! Death Star destroys the Enterprise. That's kind of a spoiler but even if you don't care about either of those things, this is pretty amazing.

Meanwhile, I don't know what Disney is doing with Star Wars but the posters are really funny.

I didn't think I cared about photos of famous folk musicians from the '60s but I ended up clicking almost every one of these individually.

Web growth peaked in 2007 but might be back with a vengeance in 2009 - or it might not be back with a vengeance indicating that this whole Web fad is ending and we can all go back outside to play.

Whoa, I totally forgot about the "There are four lights!" episode. The torture of Jean-Luc Picard was one of the most powerful of the whole series.

Obama is Spock: It's quite logical - Do NOT miss that photo.

The latest wildfire Web meme is a keyboard playing cat. The idea is to attach the cat video to the end of another video so the cat plays the clip's characters off the stage. Here's a tool that will attach the playing cat for you. And here's a collection of them so you can see what I'm talking about. The third one is a pretty good use of the cat I think, but the whole thing is a little hard for me to understand.

In B flat - All the clips feature people playing in the key of B flat.

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The Star Wars DisneyWorld events are, from my understanding, pretty cool.  I made plans to go to this year with my kids (including my rabid Star Wars fan son) but work made me cancel, sadly.  The basically take over the parks with Star Wars themed events.  We've been to two Disney event style things and they really pull out all the stops.
Cut myself off before mentioning that the Four Lights episodes (Chain of Command pt 1&2) are truly brilliant episodes that really explore torture and the impact of it on both sides.  You see the torturer is really a family man who is trying to divorce himself of what he does when Picard points out the picture of his daughter on the desk.  And at the very end, Picard's confession to his advisor is a fantastic close to the journey.  Oddly enough, this episode set was not included when Paramount later released a "Picard Collection" DVD set.  
RE: Star Wars and Disney...every year Disney has Star Wars weekends.  There are parades and guest speakers at  Disney for the events.
uhm.. Disney has an annual Star Wars Weekends...
Please don't forget the Babylon 5 episode "Intersections in Real Time,"
(see:  http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/084.html) another powerful drama showing the effects of "enhanced interrogation techniques."

Just wanted to say you're not alone in the cat thing, Will.  Usually I sort of "get" internet meme's and find the majority of them quite chuckle worthy.  The keyboard playing cat, however, just makes me produce my best "ooookay then" face.


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