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When Star Wars  hit in  1977, kids stopped playing superheroes, threw down their G.I Joes and instantly became wanna-be Jedi knight. Hell, one of the best-selling toys of the Christmas 1977 season was an empty box—which merely promised that Star Wars action figures were coming. Seeing the sci-fi toy craze, toymakers smelled “star-bucks” (Get it? Get it?) and didn’t let a little thing like having actual Star Wars licensing rights or a decent (and slightly modified) concept of the film stop them. Here are just a few items that tried to deprive George Lucas of his trademark flannel shirts by stealing some of that sweet, sweet Star Wars merchandising money.

The first legit shots of Windows 7, the successor to Windows Vista, were just unveiled by Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in person at the All Things D conference. It’s the evolution of the surface table, using multitouch on the desktop. Looks like Tablet PC. I’m not impressed so far, but only because it doesn’t move that far beyond the Surface Table demos we saw last year. More photos in a bit.

Monkeys. They’re awesome. You don’t really need a list of reasons to own a monkey, but in case you’re curious, here are nine very important ones to consider.

Most of us are so used to clicking on that iTunes or Windows Media Player icon that we don’t even stop to think for a second, “Is there anything better out there”. I’m going to answer that question now. Yes, and its called MediaMonkey. Read on to know why MediaMonkey deserves to be your new Jukebox.