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Star Wars Episode III: Behind the Scenes Webcam
securitas writes "Soon Star Wars behind-the-scenes webcam goes live when shooting for Episode III begins in Australia. 'The webcam will be moved every day, shooting live for 12 hours and then replaying in a loop while the cast is sleeping.' Of course it's only free until next week when you will have to join StarWars.com's newly relaunched site to view the cam as part of a package of services that includes online chats, outtakes and deleted scenes." I'm not sure if it's worth $20, but it's worth something....
Star Wars III on eBay
An excerpt from the listing:
"....Unfortunately, its creators were unable to forsee the events of September 11, 2001, and this crowning achievement of the Enlightenment was placed in an undeclared, de facto state of suspension - where it has remained to this day...."
Interesting comment coming from someone who has complained (journal) about how trolls are the scourge of Slashdot other blathering about the signal/noise ratio...
Ah well, anything for a mod point, right?
Ya know what? Yeah, trolls bug me sometimes, but sometimes their just downright funny. They're part of the community and you have to take the good with the bad.
The S/N ratio isn't just about trolls. it's also about quality posting. The quality of posts has tended to go down. One problem is the Slashdot groupthink. Post a story about Apple and you'll get 100 posts from Mac fanboys about how totally cool OS X (it just works, yada yada), how they love their tibooks, etc., another 100 posts arguing with the fanboys that Macs are too expensive, better price/performance ratio elsewhere, etc., another 50 posts about rumours of an x86-based OS X port and how Apple's gonna move to AMD or Intel, another 10 posts saying that BSD is dying, another 1-2 posts about how wonderful BeOS is ?!??!?, about 30 trolls, and some miscellaneous Gentoo Fanboys touting that Gentoo runs on PPC (?!?!?!)
I mean, quite frankly it's ridiculous.
My journal has hot
Damn karma whores.