The official name for the Empire Strikes back spoof is Something Something Something Dark Side, and it'll be on DVD & Blu-ray 12/22.

It's like the time Vince McMahon tried to pawn off a fake Razor Ramon and Diesel on us. Or the time the Fresh Prince's Aunt Viv inexplicably became four shades lighter over the course of a season (Vitiligo?). Or maybe more relevant, the time Cartoon Network aired all those new episodes of Dragonball Z, and Goku sounded like he was severely constipated.

The point is this: if you're bringing the show back for the rabid, already-established fanbase who knows the show best, how are you going to recast all the main voices and think the fans won't care or notice? It wont work. [CrunchGear]

TechRestore has used this technique before, and we've already glanced the DSi's innards, but the combination of a gratuitous teardown with 1304 frames of Tim Burton-style animation is kind of perfect. [TechRestore]

In the short, entitled "The Collector," a helping hand, in a very wall-e-esque manner, roams the landscape in search of various objects it can catalog and add to it's sizable stash. Somehow this leads to a Peacock feather sprouting from a hole once occupied by a screw, and is subsequently collected in a glass tube.

Not sure what that has to do with anything, but I cant complain, seeing as the style kinda reminds me of the early Gumby cartoons I hold near and dear to my heart...but without the clay and all. [John Douglas Powers via Make]

It'll be available in a two- or three-disc set on Blu-Ray, and feature a new short film called BURN-E, as well as Presto, the short that ran alongside the film in theaters. The sets also have a documentary on the studio called The Pixar Story, a "retro suite of video games," and of course the standards like commentary and a behind-the-scenes look. The double and triple-disc sets will run for $36 and $41, respectively, and there will be single, double, and triple-disk DVD sets as well. [Official Site]

DOT MATRIX REVOLUTION* from superbrothers on Vimeo.[io9]

Sorry, but the T-Rex does not come in periwinkle. Toyota still has you there. [Scare Factory via Nerd Approved]

Told you. [Club Jade]

Told you. [Blu via Walyou]

Wall-E director Andrew Stanton said he wanted the design to be high-end, but also "seamless and for the technology to be sort of hidden and subcutaneous." Stanton called this philosophy straight out of the Apple playbook and called up El Jobso in 2005. Steve sent over Johnny Ive for the day.

But oddly enough, Ive was as tight lipped as ever, despite being commissioned by Jobs for the task. So while the Pixar designers were running design ideas by Ive for Eve, all he would do is nod his head yes or no, as to whether or not he agreed. "Apple is so proprietary and so secretive that he couldn't even really allude to where the future of technology was going," said Stanton. And Pixar is a company which Jobs owns a stake in. Kinda creepy if you ask me. [Fortune]

Here's an enormously entertaining little video that took thousands of times longer to make than it does to watch. Created by an animator who calls himself "sketch (537CH)", he says it took six weeks to create this Paper Mario Animation. We like the way he moved the paper cutouts over the crayon-colored backgrounds, resulting in accurate and realistic-looking Mario action. Nice work. [Daily Motion, via CrunchGear]

This is easily one of the best picture-to-CG animations I've seen. Sure, it's not flawless—but if the company keeps improving on it, it can open up a whole lot of interesting features for social networking sites and video games. Unfortunately, the program can only be used through companies that put it into their own products—but I'm expecting a 3D animated Yuri to be doing obscene gestures on my friend's cellphones in the near future. [SciFi via UberGizmo]

It can show films, video games or even photos uploaded by visitors, but most of the time it plays animations like swimming fish—all that space and what do they use it for? Screensavers. [LED Magazine]