MetaFilter posts tagged with jedi

You're all drones! Especially the drones!

Shepherd — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:28:13 -0800

Jedis hate our way of life. (SLYT) (and yes, Clerks did kinda get there first.)

Now you, too, can become a Jedi!

litterateur — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:22:25 -0800

Have you ever dreamed of moving an object with the power of your mind? Mindflex, the new mental acuity game from Mattel, makes that dream a reality. A lightweight headset containing sensors for the forehead and earlobes measures your brainwave activity. When you focus your concentration, a small foam ball will rise on a gentle stream of air. Relax your thoughts and the ball will descend. By using a combination of physical and mental coordination, you must then guide the ball through a customizable obstacle course, the various obstacles can be repositioned into many different configurations. From Nar William's (of The Science of Movies) blog.

What would Darth Joker do?

Kickstart70 — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:45:43 -0800

Can a lightsaber cut through Superman? Through him it cuts, hmmmm?

Bloated Wikipedia Pages

brain_drain — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:42:35 -0800

The 8 Most Needlessly-Detailed Wikipedia Entries

Let the force flow through you

Stauf — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 05:23:10 -0800

Friday Jedi Fun - Kill the droids by deflecting lasers into them.

herc — Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:11:54 -0800

Jedi (n) and Klingon (n) will now be listed in the Oxford English Dictionary. As will Ass-Backward. Given MetaFilter's interest in grammar this seems worth noting. How the editors decided that "Jedi" is worth inclusion but "Stormtrooper" is not is a conversation I would have loved to have heard. Naturally, people complaining about such inclusions ain't new. However, when words are removed from the same dictionary it's hardly noticed. Clearly unused words go away, so why do people make a stink about this year after year? Slow news cycles? Or is it an extension of the Prescriptivist - Descriptivist Argument with the Prescripts making a push for the "hearts and minds" of the public?

swift — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 06:30:33 -0800

Australian government refuses to recognize Jedi as an official religion, despite the fact that 70,000 people listed it on their census forms.

twistedonion — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 04:23:32 -0800

We did it! Jedi Knights achieve official recognition as a religion. OK, it's code is 896 with none coming in at 899, but still... be interesting to see how many of us there are out there

paladin — Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:18:00 -0800

It's official: Jedi can't, and never could have been, an official religion. There were emails going around New Zealand and the UK claiming if there were enough who listed it as a religion, it could be official, but that's not the case.

ecvgi — Sat, 14 Apr 2001 13:35:48 -0800

Be a jedi on April 29! I know I will.

shauna — Tue, 06 Mar 2001 12:24:19 -0800

Jedi could become official religion -- An email is circulating in New Zealand seeking 8,000 people to write "Jedi" as their religion on that country's census form. If they do, it's claimed the government will have to recognize the Star Wars discipline as an actual religion.