Since its release in 1977 Star Wars has done far more than spawn a six-movie series, as this diagram, originally published by Wired, depicts. Fascinating, as Star Trek's Mr Spock, would say. Via Kottke.

A new Star Wars video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed will apparently fill us in on some of the events that took place between Episode III and Episode IV of the Star Wars movie series, according to Haden Blackman of LucasArts. "There's a couple of big twists and turns in the story," said Blackman. "One revelation in particular really impacts the rest of the ... Read full entry

Mattel in war of words over Scrabulous. Assuming Facebook stays in the headlines long enough - that is, it isn't superceded by something else next week - we're probably going to see more stories like this. Addicts of Scrabulous, an online word game played by millions of office workers on Facebook, may soon have to go cold turkey because of a looming copyright battle with the owners of Scrabble. The ... Read full entry