Complete Episode IV animated - Star Wars Day 2011

A classic gif, for the special day that is today.  Animated Episode IV.  May the 4th be with you.

An Epic Week in the (Star Wars) Galaxy - First We Were Like...

April 25 - May 1, 2011 was an epic week in the galaxy.  With Obama's birth certificate revealing he was indeed born in the United States, then the Royal Wedding happening and then a bombshell of a news story with the announcement that Osama Bin Laden was dead.  Together it made for a news week in the (Star Wars) galaxy that was nothing short of an epic.

April 25 - May 1, 2011: An epic Star Wars news week indeed - Obama, Osama, Royal Wedding!

The President's Speech - Obama Comedy at Correspondents' Dinner

Obama took to the podium for a round of Presidential comedic stylings that are the norm for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.  A bit of multimedia came into play courtesy of 'State-Run Media Productions' -  a spoof movie trailer for a sequel to last year's The King's Speech.

It had other crazy moments too, such as none other than Donald Trump being in the audience!  Obama didn't hold back and took the opportunity to tear into him too!  Great stuff.

There were plenty of other good lines and moments.  Following Obama was headliner Seth Myers with some SNL Weekend Update punchlines.  There are more clips around YouTube if you look.  A relaxing fun end to a week that had madness about Birth Certificates as well as terrible storms in the south and on-going wars in the Middle East/Africa etc.

Jack Layton's Star Trek past: Where No NDP Leader Has Gone Before

A bit of local fare for a minute here, as this is too good to pass up.
Believe this originally goes back to some digging up by writers at Maclean's and the Toronto Star in 2009, this is a pic of none other than New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton, in a Star Trek TNG costume of all things (and with hair, but that's another matter).  Circa 1991 Toronto, at a Star Trek convention.  Star Trek was SkyDome big!

NDP Leader Jack Layton, Star Trek Convention, Toronto,Canada 1991

His politician wife Olivia Chow even confirmed that this is not a photoshop job either.  Amazing.
Relevant, other than the funny geek Trek connection, in that Jack Layton is currently riding an election campaign wave in Canada to levels one could say no NDP Leader Has Gone Before.

This by no means indicates I or any of the contributors to YC! are voting NDP in the upcoming Canadian Federal Election.

Still Funny: Walmart Clown Commercial

Filing under 'why didn't we post this earlier' and 'can't find the post, surely we posted it' -- this viral Walmart ad about cheap party supplies and birthday clowns is a legend.  And it's still pretty funny.  This came up in some conversation recently about 'commoner' Kate Middleton's not-so-common family of party-supply company owning rich people. That's about all I'll say about that.

EDIT: Found the link on FB to the "official" Walmart channel one. Nya nya nya.