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A Day Long Remembered – Darth Vader’s Trip To Disneyland

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Memorial Day has come and gone and summer is officially here! Along with the beautiful weather, bright sunshine, and bikini tops comes the full swing of tourist season. Chances are, you’ll see some interesting social media campaigns go viral over the next few weeks. The best ones can relate to a particular audience. I happened to stumble upon this video by Geekologie Reader TK-745, in today’s feeds and it captivated me!

In this video full of awesome, Darth Vader and two Stormtroopers take a trip to Disneyland to give Star Tours a spin. Vader and his posse find themselves among the other tourists experiencing the park in a uniquely Sith way.

Check out the video and my commentary after the break.

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How the Internet has Transformed Language

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(this news isn’t groundbreaking, innovative, or new by any means. It is, however, related to my love for the Internets.)

While scouring off-the-wall travel agency websites for discounted flights for a trip that my love and I are taking this fall, I couldn’t help but notice a banner for a particular airport in Iowa that has designed their elaborate marketing scheme around their strange FAA-issued airport identifier. Billboards, t-shirts, hats, and model airplanes urge you to “Fly SUX”, a campaign for the Sioux Gateway Airport, which would not have taken off (get it? ha!) without Internet shorthand and l33tsp33k.

Fly Sux Glider

According to the Associated Press, The airport petitioned to have the identifier changed on two separate occasions in 1998 and 2002. Offered as alternatives were the following acronyms: GWU, GYO, GYT, SGV and GAY. The City denied these alternatives and decided to take their SUX slogan back. The small airport, now bearing the SUX code as a term of endearment, has seen commercial growth since the launch of their campaign–including the addition of arrivals and departures by Northwest Airlines.