I’ve had the unenviable task of rearranging all of my bookshelves recently. It’s a biannual event, trashing the out of date books, donating the good ones to the library, and holding on to the keepers. But the stacks keep growing!
Keep those shelves in check with James the Bookend, available in two colors. These rubber bookends are surprisingly sturdy and functional — not just another pretty face!
Think Geek always has clever copy and clever April Fool’s jokes. I think part of the reason is that some of their real products are so off the wall that their imaginary products don’t seem unfathomable.
This year’s joke was pretty extensive, featuring a home page almost entirely devoid of real products, and instead filled with jokes. I even got their newsletter in my inbox featuring these same products. And even knowing their tendency to have some fun, I still clicked through — “Spazztroids Caffeinated Cereal? I’ve got to get me some of those!”
Some other winners: Betamax to HD DVD converter, a caffeine patch, a USB pregnancy test, USB sun lamp, USB Foreman Grill, Pii Pii brothers Wii game. Check out their web site while the prank pages up!
Real life products available at ThinkGeek.com
If you must work in an office, you might as well make it interesting. If you’re old enough to remember cassette tapes, this clever tape dispenser will bring back memories; if you were raised on CD’s, then show your disdain for us old folks by ironically displaying this proudly on your desk.
Broken Boy Soldiers was a great first album for the Raconteurs, but this sophomore effort is outstanding. I had heard that production was rushed, so I was expecting the album to fall a bit flat, but it turns out that it’s just business as usual. Who knows, maybe it was the music critics who started that rumor to begin with.
With less polish then their first album, Consolers sounds darker, more raw, and much more energetic. I found myself repeating four or five songs on the first album, but this one is the play-from-start-to-finish variety. Plenty of good riffs to be found, and a few Jack White leads that only appeared on live versions of Broken Boy songs.
This will be on repeat for some time to come!
C’mon, I don’t even know why you would act like you don’t want copies of these books. You’re not fooling anyone, you know.
The biggest Star Wars fan I ever met was just 3 months ago. There was a new receptionist at the optometrist’s, and Star Wars came up somehow. I really have no idea how. It’s odd, now that I think back to it. Anyway, she lived in a small, two-bedroom apartment with her husband, and the entire place was packed with memorabilia. They even had a full-size Han frozen in carbon, and Star Wars wedding cake toppers.
The Complete Locations of Star Wars: Inside the Worlds of the Entire Star Wars Saga
“An encyclopedic view of the primary locations of all six Star Wars films. ” The book depends primarily on illustrations with some photographs from the films. The artwork has a great amount of detail on each location, and cutaways show multiple levels of such places as the Galactic Senate. The books design shows a good deal of imagination, to the point of including topographic maps like those in National Geographic, with lines and other annotations charting the course of various battles, and makes good use of foldouts.”
The Complete Visual Dictionary of Star Wars: The Ultimate Guide to Characters and Creatures from the Entire Star Wars Saga
Comprehensive guide to everything Star Wars. Profiles of every character, creature, vehicle, piece of equipment, and weapon used in all six movies. As you would expect in a visual dictionary, everything is documented via extensive photographs. Now if I could only find Albania on a map. I know it borders on the Adriatic, it’s land is mostly mountainous, and its chief export is corn. Thanks, Coach.
