As it happens, cookies are also my 'precious':

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So, soo pretty. I need a bigger laptop screen.

I'm still unclear as to how Jackson is going to spin this out to three films, but if they're all this visually attractive, I'm not sure I care.

Air New Zealand has the best safety video ever:

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Build your own hobbit hole:


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The Washington Post did a lovely long story this week on Professor Corey Olsen, a local medievalist and noted Tolkien scholar, who is pushing academic boundaries by using Web 2.0 tools like podcasts, Facebook and Skype to bring his scholarship to the masses:

So in spring 2007, the Washington College professor took his scholarship public, with a ( Read more... )

My friend b7kerravon made the mistake of asking "If I was marooned on a desert island, what ten fanfics would I want with me?" Of course, being the geeks we are, if we knew we were going to be marooned on a desert isle, we'd have a laptop and a external drive packed with fic with handy solar power converters. Even if I'm only flying to Cleveland, I make sure ( Read more... )