Much of what separates the Barnes & Noble nook from the Kindle 2 is sheer novelty. I can take or leave the color multi-touch screen, and the size and weight differences are elementary. It is the nook’s subtle additions that set it apart. It is like the folks at Barnes & Noble made a [...]

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While part of me suspects that recipes like Wookie Cookies, Jedi Juice Bars, Dark Side Salsa, Boba Fett-Uccine are just geeky names attached to familiar eats, I must admit that I am somewhat tempted to pick up two new additions to my respectably sized cookbook collection.
Price: $10.99 and $14.99 [Think Geek via Slippery Brick]

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Why is it that there are people that we can entrust our lives or our secrets to that cannot be trusted to return a book? My guess is that they have been doing it all of their lives, growing up they used to forget to return our action figures, or our box of 5 1/4″ [...]

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The burning bookmark adds a little bit of hotrod flame to whichever book you happen to be reading at the time. It looks pretty cool, it serves a purpose and at the same time shows that the printed word still lives, for now anyway.
Price: $6
via Technabob]

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It would seem that the first Guinness Book of Records Gamer’s Edition achieved some success, so much so in fact that they are doing it all again this year. I am just dying to find out how my high score at phone Tetris stacks up against the best. [Gear Log]

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