The Star Wars trilogy is finally coming to DVD… and I’m a little disappointed with the announcement. It looks as if they’re coming as a four-disc set with only the “Special Edition” version of the films. There’s a documentary and some missing footage, but it doesn’t sound like there are any commentaries or anything. The Snook and I predict that George is going the Peter Jackson route and he’ll later release collector’s editions with lots of extras. Money grubbing bastard!

Roger Ebert writes a lovely ode to autumn leaves that includes a rant about leaf blowers and Dubya’s stance on the environment. “Bush views the environment with the same interest the Romans took in the Sabine women.” Heh.

Damn. USA lost to Fiji by one stinkin’ point! Too bad. Good effort, Eagles.

Am I the only one that hopes this genetic discrimination law will be eventually used to protect homosexuals? As good ol’ Ted Kennedy says, “No American should be denied health insurance or fired from a job because of a genetic test.” Now all we need to do is find the genetic basis, and whoomp! There it is! How sneaky of Congress. I like it.

Edited 15/04/2015: Link is dead and not archived.

Critics of the Atkins Diet have long argued that people lose weight on it simply because they eat less food. Guess what? That may not be the case. Subjects in this study lost more weight on a higher-calorie, low-carb diet than others did on a low-calorie, high-carb diet. Guess not all calories are created alike, huh? I like how the researchers’ minds are clearly blown by these results. I guess this is encouragement for me to quit cheating and get back into Induction.

• USA is the reigning rugby Olympic champion. Seriously! They won the rugby gold medal at the 1920 and 1924 Olympic Games, the last year Rugby was an Olympic sport. I laughed so hard at that I nearly shot beer out my nose.
• Boudicca, my computer’s namesake, is supposedly buried under Platform 9 at King’s Cross Station. I wonder if JK Rowling knows this.
• Korea used to be spelled Corea. Many believe the Japanese — who controlled the peninsula four years before officially colonizing it in 1910 — changed the name by the time of the 1908 Olympics in London so that Japan would come ahead in the ordering of athletes. The Snook told me this the other night and I told him that he was full of crap. A little Googling today shows however that there is indeed a movement by the Koreans to change the international spelling of their name before the Athens Olympics. Most sane people think this is ridiculous.

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