randall...are you afraid of commitment?

Mouseover text: Using a ring to bind someone you covet into your dark and twisted world? Wow, just got the subtext there. Also, the apparently eager Beyonce would've made one badass Nazgul.

The kind of mind that connects Beyonce with Tolkien...guys like this give me such a heart on. (Just to clarify, I mean xkcd's Randall, not Sauron. Evil overlords are so emotionally manipulative.)

fun stuff on geekologie

Geekologie always have pretty fun stuff. This week it includes:

If the Matrix ran on Windows.

Fiber Optic Wallpaper

This popping edamame keychain which I めちゃめちゃほしい.
















And this story about a guy who crystalised an entire apartment. So freaking cool. If I ever own my own house I'd love to do that to one room (and yes probably never will, but stop thinking in terms of reality). Actually I've always wanted a tatami room, too. Maybe I could crystalise it first and then replace the crystally floor with tatami matting. The apartment (shown in the video below) looks like a dark, wet, sparkly cave, but imagine a room like that after someone with the money to do it had fitted it out properly and gotten great light in there. It would look unbelieveable. I wonder if the crystals stay once they form or have a limited span...? I feel like they'd stay, based on no scientific knowledge of the subject whatsoever.

roll on april 1st, 2009!

Thanks to Lifehacker, next April Fools' Day at the office is going to be sweet, sweet, sweet. Some of you may already have seen their post on Top 10 Harmless Geek Pranks, but it was just featured in a 'most popular posts' list and this was the first time I'd seen it.

There are several I won't be able to do because I can't install anything on someone else's computer at work, but I'm going to investigate no.2 (the printer one) and go into cahoots with one of the IT guys if necessary to make it happen.

These pix was posted by someone at the end of the comments. Too funny!