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I’ve made it my goal to try to post only interesting and/or insightful things to this blog. In other words, I try to avoid rambling on post after post about the standard day-to-day things that happen to me, and which would bore all of you, my readers, to tears. Unfortunately, that means that my posting frequency sometimes drops to abysmal levels. However, if you would like to read boring blog entries instead of nothing when my postings become infrequent, then the Brunching Shuttlecocks have come to your rescue. When you need a dose of mind-numbing blogging, simply visit The Apathetic Online Journal Entry Generator. Enjoy!

While we’re on the topic of The Lord of the Rings, what do you get when you mix a boatload of LotR references with gangsta rap? According to a recent post to the Elfling mailing-list, you get The Lords of the Rhymes (caution: explicit lyrics).

And while we’re talking about weird takes on Tolkien, what do you get when you mix The Hobbit, Leonard Nimoy, and a bunch of girls with pointy ears? Apparently you get The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins. Ummm… yeah… ’nuff said ’bout that.

Considering my first blog entry yesterday, I found today’s The Norm especially humorous.

Microsoft has created an ingenious new marketing method: make fun of your old products! After looking at officeclippy.com, it would seem that the key selling point of the upcoming Office XP is that it lacks that annoying paper clip assistant slash demon spawn. Is Office XP faster? More efficient? Less bloated? Who cares! It doesn’t have Clippit! Where do I sign up?

Office XP’s advertisement campaign may be centered on the fact that it has at least one less feature, but it is, admittedly, insanely funny! Go ahead and check out the site. Go to the download section and you can watch some flash movies featuring Clippit, voiced by none other than Gilbert Gottfried, getting verbally and physically abused! After you stop ROTFL, roll your mouse over the navigation bar on the left and see Clippit say funny things, including the infamous “All your base are belong to us!”

I think I’ve heard it said that it’s good for you to be able to laugh at yourself. I guess that goes for companies as well. Thanks for the laugh, Bill. Now where’s my OS X version of Office?