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Today on "Unusual Birthday Cakes I Have Known": Luke hanging upside down in the ice, as the Wampa noms on his poor Tauntaun (rather graphically, I might add).

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The Louisiana judge who struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has reported extensive investments in the oil and gas industry.

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Geek vacation getaway, via aiela: The American Classic Arcade Museum, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the history of the games we play and have played in the 20th century.

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The Wall Street Journal takes a look at BP’s in-house publication, Planet BP:

A “BP reporter” dispatched to Louisiana managed to paint an even rosier picture of the disaster. “There is no reason to hate BP,” one local seafood entrepreneur is quoted as saying, as the region relies on the oil industry for work.

Indeed, the April 20 spill on the Deepwater Horizon is being reinvented in Planet BP as a strike of luck.

“Much of the region’s [nonfishing boat] businesses — particularly the hotels — have been prospering because so many people have come here from BP and other oil emergency response teams,” another report says. Indeed, one tourist official in a local town makes it clear that “BP has always been a very great partner of ours here…We have always valued the business that BP sent us.”

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Ancient shipwreck to aid search for neutrinos. Pretty damn cool.