Via PulpSecret, the Activism Center at Wetlands Preserve takes a look at The Paper Problem, specifically Adam Weissman’s quest to get comic book companies to get comic book publishers to consider using more environmentally-friendly paper.  The collective’s "Greening the Comics Industry Campaign seeks to shift the comic book industry to use of 100% post-consumer recycled paper and to reduce overall paper use."  To that end, the WP folks are offering Forest Defense Internships.

If this sounds good to you, here’s the online application form.  As PulpSecret notes, internships are unpaid positions, but they look terrific on resumes.

Yes, today’s the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars, or as some folks have suggested, Universal Day of the Jedi. It’s also the 24th Anniversary of the release of Return of the Jedi. But did you know it’s also Towel Day?

Towel Day was created to commemorate the passing of that hoopy frood Douglas Adams, who passed away on May 11th, 2001, and it was the fastest date that people could agree on. A towel, of course, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value — you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you – daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough. Anyone who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

It’s also, of course, the start of a three day weekend — always a cause for celebration — and I understand there’s some pirate movie that’s opening today. So go forth and enjoy. But make sure you bring a towel.

Via Forbidden Planet: A Star Wars fan Down Under "was making his way to a 30th anniversary photo shoot earlier today ‘dressed in black and carrying a backpack with a replica laser blaster poking out the side’ when he ‘alarmed diners at a food court in central Melbourne.’ According to Reuters, the 32-year-old was quickly "surrounded by armed police, forced to the ground, and handcuffed,’ and will now be charged with possessing an unregistered firearm."  Emphasis ours. More from the Herald Sun.

Oh, and here’s the Beeb’s video take on the American celebrations for SW‘s 30th.

Did the survivors of Heroes save themselves – to the viewers? The Big ComicMix Broadcast digs into that while it’s all fresh in our minds. And what kind of car would Green Arrow or The Punisher tool around in? We’ve got that covered plus news on more 52 stuff from DC and the story of a woman whose music career was jump-started by a DJ.

Not bad for a Thursday, huh? So go on… Press The Button!