  HAHAHAHAHA, this is so great :) I was cruising the web earlier today and ran across urlLink this site on a link from another blog, urlLink SuperfastComputer.com .
It's dedicated to hosting a video growing ever more famous, called " urlLink Star Wars Kid ". The following is a quote from it: Ghyslain, whose parents requested that his last name be withheld, is the so-called Star Wars Kid featured in a hilarious but oddly poignant video that has been downloaded more than a million times since its release to the Web in late April. In the clip, Ghyslain brandishes a golf ball retriever that serves as a double-bladed light saber, enthusiastically re-enacting a series of battle maneuvers inspired by the feats of evildoer Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I  The Phantom Menace.
When a group of schoolmates discovered the videotape, they put it on the Internet, and within days it was a cause celebrThe Ghyslain clip soon caught the attention of Web bloggers Andy Baio and Jish Mukerji, who posted it to their respective sites. Its obvious comedic appeal aside, Baio recognized in Ghyslain a kindred spirit. I'm a computer programmer, and I was unpopular in high school, except for some like-minded, geeky friends, Baio said. Yes, he looks silly and awkward. But at the second level, you just identify so much. Visitors to Baio's site, www.waxy.org, began posting comments on the video  not all of them civil. Some of the comments were really positive. People were writing things like, I was like him in high school, Baio said. But a lot of them  a disturbing number  were incredibly mean-spirited. It made me mad. All of these people calling him fat-ass or loser, and it's completely hypocritical  I mean, all the traffic was coming from technology sites, videogame sites, and Star Wars and Star Trek sites.
So I turned off the comment function, deleted the negative comments and posted a message to the effect that You're trashing one of your own, and all you geeks and nerds and dorks need to evaluate how you're behaving. When one of Ghyslain's schoolmates guilty of posting the video contacted Baio and mailed him the teen's contact information, Baio and Mukerji called Quebec. [Ghyslain's] initial and understandable reaction was that he was unsure of my intentions, Mukerji said.
But he opened up quickly. He's an intelligent young man. He was very guarded, but by the end of the conversation, he was very jovial. Baio and Mukerji didn't stop there. They established a Web fundraiser with the stated aim of collecting enough money to buy Ghyslain an iPod, and the response has far exceeded their expectations  as of May 19, they had amassed more than $1000, and thanks to an anonymous $500 donation, Baio expected the tally to top $2000 by the end of the day.
The plan is to now buy Ghyslain his own iBook. The video was going to spread around the Web anyway  hopefully this will help, and if nothing else, he has an iBook to keep him company, Baio said. And he also learned that geeks look out for each other. urlLink Sign the petition to get Ghyslain into Star Wars Episode III! 
