Link Round-Up: Movies, Gizmos and Pictures

It’s been a busy couple of links. Forgive the linkdump:

• Ah, there’s nothing like a
  decent satirical fan film. This one is a mock trailer from the forthcoming
  Star Wars movie. It’s too long, and the jokes are hit-and-miss, but it’s worth
  three minutes of your life for the hits. I used this
  mirror (MOV).
• Four word movie
  reviews. Some movies in current release:
  • "Obsessive compulsive hottie assassin."
  • "Yeats inspires Swank trainer."
  • "Julia loves camera, man."
• Some raging alpha-geeks visit
  London’s Speakers Corner and yell about copyright.
• Not
  quite as small as the iPod Shuffle, but it’s got a display.
• Painter, blind from death birth (you’re all very clever), renders
  recognizable scenes (thanks, BoingBoing).
• This guy sold
  everything he owns on eBay, and tracked its progress around the planet
  (thanks, Monique, who’s getting a blog).
• A bit of animated
  fun produced by CBC Radio’s Content Factory (thanks, Todd).
• This
  ad (MOV) was banned from the Super Bowl. It’s safe for work, but makes
  light of last year’s malfunction.
• It’s a
  corset t-shirt. Hooray for modernizations of oppressive clothing.
• SafetyRider
  rocks out. It’s flashy flashy, and has sound, but it also has a overalls-weaing
  cat rapping about escalator safety: "Elevators, escalators, moving walkways,
  you really gotta watch your step these days."
• An amazingly inventive
  travel journal.
• The most obsessive Buffy database ever. Finally, a site that shows me all
  the Buffy episodes featuring
  dairy products.