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it’s hermione’s time turner!  which is not only awesome b/c it’s from the potter, but because prisoner of azkaban (which is when she used it on screen) is one of the best potter films ever made (couldn’t have been the director could it have?)

p.s.: that was rhetorical.  yes, that’s why.  we love you alfonso cuarón.  you made fabulous cinematic use of hermione’s time-turner.. … ..the giant pumpkins at hagrid’s, tricking harry into thinking he was seeing his father so that he could conjure the patronum spell strong enough to fend off the descending swarms of dementors… rowling wrote these scenes, but it was this director who first made a harry potter movie into a *phenomenally good* movie.

and that’s why i must have one of these!!!  :D

yes!  it’s true!  this xkcd comic is now available printed on a t-shirt!  yay!  i used the image from the actual xkcd comic, but the shirt is black with white printing.  if i’d included the thinkgeek version of the image, which crops too much out for legibility, the uninitiated would lower an eyebrow and go, “umm… how’s this funny?”  and that would be a travesty, b/c xkcd is indeed very funny.  and full of smart!  good stuff, in other words.  but, for now, *i want this shirt*!!!

now this is a chindogu if i’ve ever seen one.  making it rank as AWESOME even if it is for the iPhone (a product for which i harbor an active dislike).  

ok, and this is really pretty awesome, too. anything that allows you to get all lego-modular gets a thumbs-up in my book.  even if it is for the stupid iPhone.  {:P

i’m no fan of apple products.  they cost too much, and i still haven’t been shown anything that they do that PCs can’t do (and PCs not only do a lot more with more apps, easier to write code for, and waaay more customizable) and they also don’t do anything that androids can’t do (and, once again, android *also* has more customizable options, and is easier to develop for, and comes in incarnations with full, slide-out qwerty keyboards).

the only thing apple can do is run a successful marketing campaign which capitalizes on hipsters’ ignorance and (apparent) abundance of money to purchase the “unique” and “artsy” product that everyone else has (since apple products all look the same or, in the case of iPads & iPhones, are all identical devices).

so you can imagine how sad it is that due to the sameness inherent in only having one mobile handset, people can make things that work with iPhones but can’t possibly make similar products for the many available android handsets, because production costs would be too great.

well, only kinda sad.  the tokidoki, hello kitty, and other adorable-graphics iPhone-protectors, they’re nice, but i wouldn’t add that bulk to my phone just for looks.  that’s what your mobile carrier’s insurance plan is for—to replace it when you drop and break it.

until now.  this isn’t the world’s most practical product in the world, but it is so incredibly adorable, and i do so much snapshotting with my android phone, it would indeed be nice to have a snug-fitting wrapper like this that also allows me to use my gorillapod (that little mini bendy tripod for use with point-and-shoot cameras).  so, here i am, coveting this, because i want it to work with my android devices, and i just know there will never be that option.

even though i admit, it’s a bit gimmicky, it is adorable and puts a smile on my face until i remember i can’t have one.  ^__^