At the bookstore, I saw a bunch of older women (the stereotypical reader of Oprah book club novels) fawning over copies of LOTR. It must have been the picture of Viggo Mortensen on the cover making them all goggly and incoherent.
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Website Mixmaster. This little application will help generate a website of your creation, primarily one with the layout of one but the content of another.
2003 Words of the Year. I liked some of the words under "Most Creative" such as freegan, tanorexia, or (and this makes me giggle) manscaping.
How to wrap your friend's apartment in tin foil: a love story. This reminds me of a prank that happened to one of my neighbors back when I was an undergrad. While he was away on vacation, his roommate filled the entire dorm room with packing peanuts. So when he got back and opened the door, the packing peanuts came pouring out over him and into the hallway. His roommate must have loved him very much.
