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An anonymous reader writes "Leaked footage of Star Wars: Episode III is now online! Included in the 2-minute and 37-second clip are shots of the Australian set, George Lucas behind the camera, Chewbacca looking cooler than ever, and even a quick peek at Hayden Christensen (in Vader get-up!) and Ewan McGregor duking it out, all being played to AC/DC's 'Back in Black.' I've downloaded it, but am undecided as if I should watch it or not, lest it spoil something (here's hoping that it's good)."

An AC sends: "I recently stumbled upon one of the coolest movie promotions I have ever seen. If you download the trailer and notice the second frame of credits is "Sentient Machine Therapist-Jeanine Salla". Searching for this on google.com leads to a plethora of pages seemingly outlining some fictional murder mystery having to do with robots. For those of you who are too lazy to follow this trail yourselves, Ain't It Cool News has a list of most of the links." The trend of seeding the web with fictitious pages about your movie/product/whatever appears to be catching on, and this movie has really gone off the deep end. Was X-Men the first one to do this?

Jason Eric Pierce writes "Countdown has created a South Park parody of the first Star Wars prequel trailer. Read about and download it here. "

Zibalatz writes "The second Star Wars trailer will be appearing at Countdown to Star Wars today at around 4:00pm. There's more information on the second trailer and its non-web appearances on the site. I would strongly recommend anyone who can provide a mirror to do so. " Update: 03/09 08:24 by CT : Delayed. Isn't that always the case?

Ed Bailey wrote in to say that the Linux-7K project to get Linux on the Psion has started Bearing Fruit Fict sent in a link to LinuxApps which recently got a recamp. Looks strangely familiar GVeloper wrote in to say that gdev has been revamped (to use Slash) as well as containing some comments about glide and glade possibly merging. Lincoln sent us a link to a CG short parody of the politics of sfx which will be of interest to Star Wars fans. my copy of xanim won't play it, but several people told me it's really excellent. freejack wrote in to say that the Star Tribune rated Slashdot in top sites for geek gossip mongers. Whatever that means. Shave sent in a link to Jerry Pournelle's web site a where he talks about Refund Day and Slashdot (and neither in particularly cheerful terms) And finally, for the gamers out there, mgix sent a link to a N64 Emulator that can do Zelda64. That game has been a staple in the Geekhouse for weeks now. Addictive.

Ed Bailey wrote in to say that the Linux-7K project to get Linux on the Psion has started Bearing Fruit Fict sent in a link to LinuxApps which recently got a recamp. Looks strangely familiar GVeloper wrote in to say that gdev has been revamped (to use Slash) as well as containing some comments about glide and glade possibly merging. Lincoln sent us a link to a CG short parody of the politics of sfx which will be of interest to Star Wars fans. my copy of xanim won't play it, but several people told me it's really excellent. freejack wrote in to say that the Star Tribune rated Slashdot in top sites for geek gossip mongers. Whatever that means. Shave sent in a link to Jerry Pournelle's web site a where he talks about Refund Day and Slashdot (and neither in particularly cheerful terms) And finally, for the gamers out there, mgix sent a link to a N64 Emulator that can do Zelda64. That game has been a staple in the Geekhouse for weeks now. Addictive.

Lincoln wrote in to tell us the Promotional Campaign for Phantom Menance. He writes "I just received a secret memo from a large media organisation that revealed all of Lucasfilm's promotional plans for Episode One! It is every Star Wars geek's dream come true: 8 billion Star Wars cans of Pepsi New 5 minute Trailer coming soon (there's a new version posted at my site as well) 100 million gaming cards $1 million in cash to be won Episode One video releasein 2000 Episode One on 3,000 screens" It wouldn't be Star Wars without mega promotions.

Lincoln wrote in to tell us the Promotional Campaign for Phantom Menance. He writes "I just received a secret memo from a large media organisation that revealed all of Lucasfilm's promotional plans for Episode One! It is every Star Wars geek's dream come true: 8 billion Star Wars cans of Pepsi New 5 minute Trailer coming soon (there's a new version posted at my site as well) 100 million gaming cards $1 million in cash to be won Episode One video releasein 2000 Episode One on 3,000 screens" It wouldn't be Star Wars without mega promotions.

Lincoln writes "We've got someone to get us a First Bound copy of Vanity Fair - the pictures are now online!" That didn't take very long at all. The other major news is that Lucas has been saying that there probably won't be an epilogue trilogy as originally planned.

Lincoln writes "We've got someone to get us a First Bound copy of Vanity Fair - the pictures are now online!" That didn't take very long at all. The other major news is that Lucas has been saying that there probably won't be an epilogue trilogy as originally planned.