It being Mother’s Day in the U.S., our intrepid bloggers have been spending some quality time with some very patient women who raised some really geeky kids with great grace. (I count myself doubly lucky because I not only get my mom, but I get to enjoy Shane’s mom too!)

As for today’s news, here’s what we’ve come up with.

Lucas gets revenge on Marin County residents.  When those who live in Marin County finally stopped the project to build the movie studio on George Lucas’ land, George Lucas decided to get back at them by using the land for something else: low-income housing.  From the article at Movies.com:

He’s working with the Marin Community Foundation to instead construct affordable housing for either low-income families or seniors living on small, fixed incomes.  In order to smooth along the development, he’s already given them all of the pricey technical studies and land surveys Lucasfilm spent years conducting.  And we thing that’s just great.  Because if there’s one thing rich people will hate more than having movie magic made in their backyard, it’s poor people moving in.

I’m not sure that The Great One’s motives are the purest here, but if it’s going to do something good for the community, I can’t knock it.

In other geek news, my brother sent me this link today: Buildtheenterprise.org.

Yes, you read that correctly.  It’s a site outlining the plan to build a working spaceship, based on the greatest ship ever conceived, the U.S.S. Enterprise, and is trying to show the feasibility of doing so.  Do be patient–six days into the site, they’ve had to purchase a new server because they’ve gone from 100 visitors a day to lover 60,ooo, so the site is moving a bit slow right now, but it’s worth it.

Edited to add: Also, the box office receipts are in for the weekend, and The Avengers just pulled in over 100 million for its second weekend.  That’s what most movies hope to make in their entire run.  This now brings the total for The Avengers to over 360 million dollars in two weeks.