Shiny Goodness

Today, ladies and gents, the Serenity Special Edition DVD comes out. I know you are all going to rush out and buy it. I am stopping on my way home, unless Mr, Rochester wants to make a trip to Fry’s with me after dinner. Fry’s is a geek mecca of techie goodness.

I also found a nice surprise in my email this morning. I know it is a month and a half away, but I want these for my birthday. They would look great in my office or on any wall for that matter.

–Jane, unsuccessful at keeping the fangirl in check this morning

A Song for George

I honor of the 30th birthday of Star Wars, I give you a MP3 of the Jedi Drinking Song. Scroll down to the fourth list entitled “Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales.” Enjoy.

–Jane, is listening to it and writing this post right now

Eventful and The Bards

I have heard a few things about Eventful in passing recently. Eventful is a place where you can advertise or find things going on in your area. It is a very interesting service.

This morning I received my Bard Crier, a semi-regular email from Marc Gunn of the Brobdingnagian Bards, which included a use of Eventful that I found fun. By clicking on this link, you can go the The Bards’ page and request them in your area. When they have enough requests for an event, they will travel and play in that town. Music on demand. Some of you will remember that I went to see Marc and Andrew at a house concert this past fall and loved, loved it.

The Bards have free downloads on their site and a fun podcast, so check them out and if you live in the Houston area, please “Demand” them on Eventful. I would love to see them again.

I wonder if a library could use Eventful for their book mobile service, their mobile storytime, or other traveling shows. It would be interesting to know if someone used this as a guerrilla way of demanding a new service from their library (no fines anyone?), a local merchant, or protesting some other thing in their area.

Does anyone know of any instances of Eventful being used for something other then for what is was created?

–Jane, just curious

Shiny Goodness

Two Firefly related news items for all my Browncoat readers.

Amazon has placed Firefly as #2 on its Sleepers and Keepers list because it has been “…selling copy after copy since the day [it was] released without ever having made industry headlines…” Shiny.

There is a sequel to Finding Serenity coming out in August. It is entitled Serenity Found. If this second collection of essays is anywhere near as good as the first, I will be a pleased lady.

After looking up some of the links in Wikipedia, I realized that the Firefly article is a “Features Article” which means out of approx. 1,796,936 articles, only 1,407 are superb. We are so very pretty.

–Jane, “One of you is gonna fall and die. And I’m not cleaning it up. “

Second Life Serenity

A fan of Firefly has created an island in Second Life called Washtown. They went so far as to recreate Serenity inside and out. It is amazing. I have to get in Second Life now. There are shindigs every Sunday evening.

–Jane, the screenshots are amazing

Bits From the Feeds

Going through my feeds at the Reference Desk yesterday, as there was naught else to do, I came across a few amusing things Whedon related that I feel compared to share.

The Big Damn Boss himself confirmed on Whedonesque that there will be a two disk set of Serenity available in July. Alas, it is not yet ready for preordering.

Fisher Price as Firefly video from YouTube. I liked the goslings best.

P.J. Otaku has placed a very funny song on his MySpace account called “Joss Whedon Is My Master.” It is on the right side, second from the top.

–Jane, has been known to juggle geese