At last, an answer to the greatest blogosphere mystery since Salam Pax (who, AFAIK, remains unsolved). The infamous "Star Wars Kid" has been identified: he's Ghyslain, a 15-year-old tenth grader living in Quebec. Anil says:
Andy Baio and Jish Mukherji of waxy.org and jish.nu, respectively, found the kid whose video of him performing martial arts in front of a camera had special effects added to it and made the rounds all over the world.
In addition to pushing about 3 terabytes of traffic from Andy's server hosting the video, and taking Jish's server down after his interview with the boy was posted and Farked, the video has caught the eye of every one of us who ever had a lightsaber battle with a broomstick.
So, though it was cruel of the kids at his school to put the video on the web without his permission, we web geeks take care of our own, and we're getting him an iPod. Go to Andy's site and read the story, go to Jish's site and read the interview, re-watch the videos, and then click on the Paypal link to help hook a geek-in-training up with a nice gift for his efforts.
