Disney's Star Wars!

Oh my goodness...can it be true?  George Lucas sells Star Wars to Disney - LOTS of new movies in the works - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20146942

Fink's Links #50

Wow, 50 editions of Fink's Links...it's only two weeks to go and I've done the full *year* (when I will probably make a fuss about it)...So, without any other preamble - I present to you an offering of all the interesting stuff I stumbled over during my week on the internets -

Here we go then, first up check out this picture of Vancouver/the Cloud City of Bespin (separated at birth)...

Check out this Ugandan Woman's homemade mobile phone charger...! <:0

2009 Men's Health Magazine has updated their list of the most unhealthy food in America (always good for a laugh)...

Halo Fans - Enjoy - "We drove the Warthog!"...(yep, there is a real one, built by WETA for the cancelled (Why?) Halo Movie...

Steampunk goes up a gear (and fuses with Star Wars) - check out this steam powered R2D2!

Just *Amazing* aerial shots of London at night...it's almost impossible to imagine how technically difficult they were to expose (staggering)...!

Take a look at what it's like to fly in spaceship One...

A nice collection of shopping links for you now...although admittedly quite unusual items -

Be the envy of everyone on the beach with a 3D Star Wars kite!

Cover up that chopping injury with some rather amusing plasters...

An interesting candle that automatically extinguishes itself after a pre-determined amount of time...

How about a nice new bathroom accessory, a living bath mat, made from moss...!

These are really *amazingly* cool...new energy drinks that strongly resemble mana/health potions... ;)

Into the kitchen now, for an excellent shark attack tea-infuser (use Red Tea for the best effect, obviously)...

Japan, and a new gadget that does nothing apart from make different noises according to how far you push the pedal (you can see them queueing down the street for that one)...!

- and last, but not least, to finish the links for another week, an excellent Baby needs fail and a funny Drought fail...

If you like this sort of thing, my previous link posts are this way...!

Growing up with Star Wars

Was going to save this for the Friday links, but actually it really deserves it's own post...Wil Wheaton clued me in to this wonderful Flickr group (a little while ago) called "Growing up with Star Wars" - where members are encouraged to post vintage photographs of themselves (as kids) playing with the toys, dressing up or scans of drawings they did during the golden age of 1977-1985 (when Star Wars wasn't tainted by silliness)...wonder if my folks have got anything in the archive suitable for inclusion? ;)