If you’ve got a free hour and a half, check out redlettermedia’s series of Star Wars Episodes I + II critiques. They fully expose the prequels as the worthless schlock that everyone suspects them to be.

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…or both?  You decide with this picture, via Game Culture:

No shield this, bitches!

The eyes and ears of our future cybernetic overlords have taken shape, thanks to the industrious engineering work of the Germans. How ironic.

The Hexacopter can zoom in and out of view in the blink of an eye, and sounds like an “angry swarm of bees” as it collects intelligence, scans for impure thoughts, and prepares a euthanasia beam for its thankful victims.

These two are destined to one day star in a movie called “Christians Bail.”

Didn’t John Travolta and Kirstie Alley already do this piece 20 years ago? In any case, it’s been a slow few days… But more is to the coming!

Over the hill action stars Dolph Lundgren and Carl Weathers fight over 25-year old fictional table scraps on internet TV venue, The Jace Hall show.

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Last night I went out to LA’s Wiltern theater to witness a once in a blue moon assortment of talent assembled by Jack Black and co. to raise money for Haiti earthquake survivors.

I recorded some fantastically washed-out grainy video in an attempt to share this experience with you. Not only do the following clips give you a sense of the performances, they also recreate the crowd’s futile attempts to see anything amidst a standing room only mob. In any case, enjoy the festivities:

A truly unexpected performance here from the WWF’s Iron Sheik.

Here’s the Shins’ James Mercer covering Neil Young’s Don’t Let it Bring You Down…

Genius comedian Patton Oswalt regaled the crowd with his angry musings before an Aimee Mann set.

He then brought the house down with his Yoshinoya Beef Bowl routine.

Here’s Ben Stiller vamping on stage with a mysterious figure referring to himself as ‘Fabreeze Fabreeze.’

A vindictive Stiller returned during Tenacious D’s closing act with a giant drum set…

All in all, a very compelling night of entertainment.

Don’t they make psychotropic tracking devices in liquid form?

For more from this uncannily well-cast Matrix spoof crew, check out their Matrix-run-by Windows XP bit.

This week, BLDGBLOG featured Remnants of the Biosphere, a series of portraits of what was once one of the most ambitious scientific projects in human history. Biosphere 2, constructed in the Arizonian desert, was billed as the first large scale enclosed eco-system designed by humans. It is now little more than a run-down tourist center.

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Happy Twenty Ten. For those of you too lazy (or annoyed by obligatory tradition) to conjure a New Year’s Resolution, here’s an auto-resolution generator.