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Samuel L. Jackson is an American treasure. From Do the Right Thing to The Hateful Eight, and Jurassic Park to The Avengers, he's been a staple of classic films, providing audiences with an entertaining and important infodump. Let's just say if you need to get through some exposition, you could do a lot worse than Samuel L. Jackson. 

But what do we know about Samuel L. Jackson? For a guy we've watched and enjoyed for decades, I'd say surprisingly little. So people turn to Google to answer their quesitons, but they might as well go to the source. 

Jackson teamed up with Wired to answer some of the internet's most common and incomplete quesitons about the actor, and the responses, as you could imagine, are pretty bad ass. 

I hope you didn't need to get anything done for the rest of the day, because you're about to be too busy fighting Stormtroopers.

Lightsaber Escape is a new game/experience built by Google that turns your smartphone, in combination with Chrome on your computer, into a lightsaber. Once you pair and calibrate your device, you're off on a quest to escape a Star Destroyer filled with Stormtroopers. They're surprisingly good shots.




Can you make it out in one piece?

Don't give me that sass, Google!

In fine form, Youtube announces a Netflix-style DVD subscription service for April 1st. There's more WINning pranks from yesterday's April Fools tomfoolery right here:

Think Geek displays their new Wizard Robe accessory. Meanwhile, gaming accessory company Razer announces a set of goggles that will give you a HUD that will display gamer statistics in real time.

In more extravagant news, Virgin would like to take you to the center of the earth (with Seth Green and will.i.am of course). The unholy relationship between Google and Nascar is finally revealed: Start your engines! Sony announces their itty-bitty quarter-sized laptop (which will undoubtedly cost four times more than other products of its type).

Google continues their nigh-endless series of jokes by announcing a multi-tasking browser and a Morse-code enabled texting service (it's more efficient, really!).

Oh, and WestJet wants to make sure that you never fly with children in your cabin ever again.

As always, half of these pranks would be totally amazing if they were actually real. Have any more fun April 1st news and stories? Let us know in the comments!

Make sure to check out FAIL Nation for the wrong side of April 1st!

Mitch Parks from After Edmund playing Hey Jude on the Google interactive doodle in the shape of an electric guitar that allows you to play and record your own riffs.