***REAL LIGHT SABERS***

Gizmodo has video, links and comments.  Also, May the 4th be with you: yesterday was Star Wars Day.

I like this bit of trivia from the Wikipedia article above - In a 2005 interview on German news TV channel N24, Star Wars creator George Lucas was asked to say the famous sentence "May the Force be with you." The interpreter simultaneously interpreted the sentence into German as Am 4. Mai sind wir bei Ihnen ("We shall be with you on May 4").

Iran Mine Threat Scares Navy

Decades-old neglect of mine warfare comes home to roost.

Government-Funded Medical Research Is Hazardous to Your Health

Sloppy science and ethical misconduct in medical research, from Dr. Paul Hsieh.

Malkin: Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be “Julia”

Comments and links at Michellemalkin.com.

"Not In Labor Force" Data Officially Off The Chart

April "Not in labor force" increases by 522K to 88,419,000. Maximum reading permitted by graph: 88,000,000.

Related:  Once Again Unemployment Rate Drops… As More Americans Drop Out of Labor Force.  The people not in the labor force is at its lowest level since 1981.

Junior Seau, RIP

Self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest.

Wednesday links

Chinese man pulls 1.6-ton car with eye sockets.

How to Make Perfect McDonald's-style French Fries at Home.  Also in the food category, Meat glue - turning scraps into a filet.

Physics of "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"

Plant-Animal Hybrid.

Customs and Immigration form filled out by Apollo 11 astronauts upon returning from the moon. 

White camel sacrificed in Kazakhstan to end suicide epidemic.

Boy, 11, urinates on $36K worth of Apple MacBooks

Because they were there?

RFK assassination witness tells CNN: There was a second shooter

Recording detected at least 13 shot sounds erupting over a period of less than six seconds.  Sirhan's gun held 8.

Surgical treatment for prostate cancer is ineffective?

The world's biggest randomised trial of prostate cancer has found that the standard surgical treatment for the disease is ineffective.

The results of the Prostate Intervention Versus Observation Trial (PIVOT), led by Timothy Wilt and started in 1994 with 731 men, showed that those who underwent the operation had less than a three per cent survival benefit compared with those who had no treatment, after being followed up for 12 years. The difference was not statistically significant and could have arisen by chance.

Article.

'Statistics on prostate cancer' graphic.

Mark Steyn: Cuisines from My Stepfather

It’s not just that Obama ate the dog, but that he’s screwing the pooch.