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Daily Scan: 03.18.08

• Chewbacca is quite the dapper Victorian don't you think?

• Attack of the steampunk Daleks!

• A heady retrospective of the Star Wars games.

• David Letterman's "Top 10" list will be presented by none other than 10 Battlestar Galactica actors.

• Starfighting in the museum of the improbable.

• Peanuts a la Watchmen.

• 2001: A Space Odyssey's "Dawn of Man"... done in LEGO! Sans gore and bone-splattered brains.

• A Terry Pratchett Discworld luggage prop is up on eBay, with proceeds to go to fund Alzheimer's research.

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Posted by John Brownlee
March 18, 2008 4:38am

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