ThinkGeek’s Portal bookends are a wonderfully geeky way to keep your books from falling off the shelf. Great for the bookish gamers in your life. Portal Bookends ( Thanks, Fipi Lele! )

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Portal bookends

Bender Bound cuts flask-sized cavities into thick, sober (ahem) books in a variety of categories, suitable for hiding in plain sight on a professional looking bookshelf: medical books, law books, cook books, parenting books, even pilot manuals (!). Flask included. Bender Bound ( via Lowering the Bar )

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Professional books with booze flasks hidden in them

This is a Game of Thrones cake made by Kensei Yonzon and Nicole Villar Balaoing. It’s a throne made out of swords made out fondant. You ever tried swallowing a sword before? It’s harder than it looks. Plus you have to be real careful not to drop it because one time at the circus I saw a guy let go when it was only halfway down his gullet and the sharp end came out his butthole. I’ve been trying to drink the memory away but the elephants — they’ll have to live with that for life. Kensei’s Facebook via Let’s Eat This Game of Thrones Cake [obviouswinner] Thanks to khz, who’s never swallowed but has sat on a parking cone naked.

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Sword Swallowing: A Game Of Thrones Cake

JK Rowling , best known for her initials being the same as the acronym for just kidding (jk jk!), considered offing redheaded stepchild Ron Weasley in the middle of the Harry Potter franchise because she’s sick she was in a “dark place”, despite the fact she was a multi-millionaire before the third book even came out. Hey — I guess money doesn’t buy happiness after all. Except mine. It would definitely buy mine. When asked if she had anticipated any of the main characters dying in the series, she said: “Funnily enough, I planned from the start that none of them would die. “Then midway through, which I think is a reflection of the fact that I wasn’t in a very happy place, I started thinking I might polish one of them off. Out of sheer spite. ‘There, now you definitely can’t have him any more. “But I think in my absolute heart of heart of hearts, although I did seriously consider killing Ron, I wouldn’t have done it.” Admittedly, I can commiserate with Rowling on this one. Just not as a writer, as a person who makes decisions based on sheer spite. HOHO, YOU LIKE THE NOSE, DON’T YOU, FACE?! WELL TOO BAD! *takes potato peeler to nose* I smoked PCP! JK Rowling admits she was thinking of killing off Ron Weasley [telegraph] Thanks to Lord Voldemort (who was all for the decision) and Christine, who were pissed with Rowling’s decision to kill off Boromir while he was trying to protect Merry and Pippin.

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JK Rowling Considered Offing Ron Weasley

In a move that should come as no surprise to anyone except the very, very old who still can’t believe electric car windows exist, Amazon announced its color-screen Kindle today, the $200 Fi-ya (technically ‘Fire’, but I like to say it like that). People are speculating how much it’s going to affect iPad sales EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE SPECULATING WHERE THEIR NEXT MEAL IS COMING FROM. Priorities, folks, that’s the really lesson here. Haha, I’m teaching — I’m actually doing it! *soaks pants in front of class* FUFUFUFUUUUUUUUUUUUU. Product highlights: 7″ multi-touch display with IPS (in-plane switching) technology and anti-reflective treatment, 1024 x 600 pixel resolution at 169 ppi, 16 million colors. Dual-core processor running Android Own Amazon Silk web browser, Flash support 14.6 ounces (9/10-lb) 8GB internal storage. Enough for 80 apps, plus either 10 movies or 800 songs or 6,000 books. Free cloud storage for all Amazon content Up to 8 hours battery life of continuous reading or 7.5 hours of video playback Wi-Fi only I’ve never actually owned a Kindle. I like book-books. Something about the smell and being able to wipe boogers between the pages. Amazon is also releasing a new and improved 6″ ‘vanilla’ Kindle for $79, and two 7″ touchscreen versions for $99 and $150 (3G). What they are NOT releasing is the collection of nudie photos I took of myself and tried to sell in their app store for a million dollars. YOU DIRTY COMMIE CENSORS! Amazon Product Site Thanks to everyone who sent this for thinking I must live under a rock or something. BURN! No but seriously, keep those tips coming.

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Amazon Officially Announces Color Kindle

This tiny, turn-of-the-20th-century bookcase with its complement of miniature books is on sale at Vininghill, an antiques dealer. A very sweet miniature bookcase , probably made of maple. This bookcase revolves on a long steel pin, and spins with ease. The 40 miniature books are volumes of Shakespeare and are printed in Glasgow by David Bryce & Son, and in London by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press Warehouse Amen Corner. The item is dated 1904. One of the books is dedicated to Ellen Terry, the actress. This is a lovely item. Size: bookcase - 6-1/4 inches x 4 inches books - approx. 2 inches x 1-1/4 inches Edwardian Miniature Revolving Bookcase ( via Bookshelf )

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Miniature bookcase and books: 1904

‘Cause you can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaur– no? Wrong Alice? Woopsie doopsie. This is a shot from ‘Alice of Magic World’, an Alice in Wonderland themed restaurant in Tokyo they should have just named ‘Alice in Wonderland’ because I’m pretty sure the copyright is in the public domain now. Anyway, I plan on going for my next unbirthday/tea party and hoping for some of those ‘eat me’ cakes so I can grow all big. And not just because I’ve always been picked on for being small, but I do have to use a step-stool to reach the toilet. “Then what do you do in public?” Take a guess. “Pee on the floor?” F***in’ soak it. Hit the jump for a bunch more of the wonderland. Sorry, no bathroom shots.

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You’re Taking Me For My Next Unbirthday!: An Alice In Wonderland Themed Restaurant

This is a real sign spotted at a Barnes & Noble bookstore . And the question of the hour is this: should we all be excited that kids are at least reading something , or disappointed THERE’S A F***ING ‘TEEN PARANORMAL ROMANCE ‘ GENRE? Option two, obviously. I swear, I’m so disgusted right now I could burn down Amazon . “GW, stop being stupid — Amazon isn’t even a real store.” Oh yeah? Well you’re not even a real person, so there. Don’t believe me? Pinch your non-dominant arm as hard as you can. Haha, that’s what you get! Say hello to the newest for-real book section at Barnes & Noble [reddit] Thanks to Ashley, who admitted to loving the Twilight series in her tip and officially dead to me. Zombie teen romance?! Please God no.

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Well Folks, It’s Official: Literature Is Dead

What, no “These Books Have Three-Tittied Alien Chicks Wielding Swords In Spaceships on Their Covers” section? Amazon it is. How To Sell Books [buzzfeed] Thanks to Karsten, who only buys books for their cover art. Who doesn’t?!

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Nobody Reads Anyway: How To Sell Books

Maddie Chambers went and built herself a super impressive looking Bag End hobbit hole dollhouse . It’s amazing. I posted a couple more pictures after the jump, but Maddie has between two and three billion on her website which you should go check out to see the whole thing. My penis? You’d need two more eyes to see the whole thing. Hit it for a couple more shots and another link to Maddie’s website.

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Eye Candy: Amazing Bilbo Baggins Dollhouse