from the annals of FB

#1. TOR.n shared this collection of buttons available at Comicon (which has apparently been dubbed as #hobbitcon on Twitter this year):

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I want, oh, pretty much all of them but definitely the top-left one to go on my bookbag. The pin I got for being an LGBT ally is lonely. But the bottom-right one earned a definite giggle. Am I the only one reading this who remembers OFUM?

#2. The many tweets of KimKierkegaard. In which someone has mashed bits of Kierkegaard's timeless wisdom with Kim Kardashian's not-so-timeless tweets. With friends like Justin Buber thrown in for good measure. I don't know any of these people enough to fully get this as much as I'd like, but I thought someone else could use a good laugh.

#3. Yoda origami - what's not to love?

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#4. Another TOR.n goodie from Comicon. Their sign is hilarious, though I rather think it was unintended. Yes, fandom works pretty much like a ring of power at times. (Though I'm sure TOR.n is a great site...)

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#5. Yet more goodness of the Star Wars variety:

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#6. And finally, because no post should apparently be entirely without religion, here's some hellfire and dalmatians:

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in which corporate America does something right ;^P

Warner Bros. has an app allowing you to create a desktop for computer monitors, smart phones, etc.

http://apps.warnerbros.com/thehobbit/wallpapergenerator/

What's so cool is you get to choose exactly the bit of several scenes you want to see. I chose Gandalf and beorn having a moment of recognition, and then Bilbo up to his elbows in danger in Mirkwood. A dangerous business, indeed!

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