Where’s Jar-Jar?

Tangled Bank 52 is up over at The Inoculated Mind, and it is a labour of love. Karl J. Mogel, the man with a hypodermic in his brain, has painstakingly crafted a [Star Wars Tangled Bank]http://www.inoculatedmind.com/?p=38, complete with awesome sound track. (Thank God he didn't make the text scroll.) As he says, “It helps if you tilt the screen back when you read it”. Even if you don’t, there’s some good stuff there.

I liked:

• Science unfair
• The fragility of you and me
• The amphibian Xipe Totec
• [Using genes as an excuse]http://www.geneticsandhealth.com/2006/04/17/using-genes-as-an-excuse/
• [Another mumps post -- isn't the vaccine working]http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2006/04/another_mumps_postisnt_the_vac.php, and even
• [Born to be wild]http://groopaloop.blogspot.com/2006/04/born-to-be-wild_12.html

Of course it perpetuates a geeky stereotype, but who cares? I mean, surely that lovable fool Jar-Jar Binks wrote something in the past couple of weeks. (There may be good reasons for his omission.) Others, too, may be missing, but as a non-fan I wouldn’t know. And what can I say about being cast as Green Leader? It is an honour I do not deserve.