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A New URL for The Official Star Wars Blog Effective today, the Official Star Wars blog is heading to the starwars.com domain, existing at a new address. Please update your bookmarks and set your navicomputers to: http://starwarsblog.starwars.com/ The blog and the links at the wordpress domain will remain for those who may have blogged about or deep-linked to content here, so don’t worry about links [...] Rebelscum Japan Launched Our friends over at rebelscum.com have just launched an all-new site dedicated to Japanese Star Wars collecting, posting an informative tutorial on the history of the hobby in the Land of the Rising Sun. Here?s a bit of the intro: In 1978, turmoil from a galaxy far, far away finally reached the big screens in Japan. [...] Catching up on Star Wars Insider Red and Jonny checking out their profile in Star Wars Insider. Check out their photos on Flickr: RedandJonny Skywalker Sound Nominated for BAFTA The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has nominated Matthew Wood, Chris Scarabosio, Michael Semanick and Thomas Johnson from Skywalker Sound for their amazing work on the Paul Thomas Anderson film There Will Be Blood starring Daniel Day Lewis and Paul Dano. Previously, Wood worked as the Supervising Sound Editor, while Scarabosio, Semanick and Johnson [...] Star Wars Guide to the Candidates For those of you who think it might be fun to vote based on random connections between presidential candidates and Star Wars characters — here’s the Mighty Rex Star Wars Guide to The Candidates. Closer to ?Human? Clones? Researchers at Stemagen claim that they used male skin cells to create human embryos, even thought they did not delevop past 100 cells. It is not clear whether the embryos would have been viable if implanted into a womb. Stemagen did not test whether the embryos had the correct number of chromosomes. But Dr. Wood, who [...] The Many Looks of the Imperial Stormtrooper Though it may seem that the only characters who get frequent costume changes in the Star Wars galaxy have to be royalty, that doesn’t mean the Imperial troopers don’t get to mix it up. The hardcore fans over at IGN.com decided to give some props to the Imperial army with a rundown of the many looks [...] Sneak Peek at New Exclusive Check out starwars.com tomorrow for more details. Utinni Ick! Russell Walks to Illustrate Indy Promos According to billingsgazette.net, fans will soon see a lot of Indiana Jones promotional artwork coming from Russell Walks, an artist who Star Wars fans may recognize from the Star Wars Celebration Art Shows and the Topps Galaxy trading card series. For Indy, it looks like Walks will be illustrating for Dr. Pepper, Kellogg?s, and others. His [...]