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In Honor of WTF Wednesday and the New Star Trek Movie, I Give You Spock Singing About Hobbits

This is Leonard Nimoy's Ballad of Bilbo Baggins. It was composed by Charles Randolph Grean, and first appeared on The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy (Dot Records Cat. DLP 25835, 1968), the second of Nimoy's albums on Dot Records. Nimoy had read Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and been exceedingly impressed by it. From approximately 1968 to 1973, several Nimoy and Star Trek fanzine writers and editors (notably contributors to Regina Marvinny's Nimoyan Federation and members of the Leonard Nimoy Association of Fans) discussed the idea of a live-action The Lord of the Rings film, with Nimoy playing Aragorn, and there was a brief letter-writing campaign.

Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat.

Keyboard Cat is a new Meme going around the internets, and it is gaining in popularity. The original cat-playing-keyboard video was created by Charles Schmidt Below is the first use of keyboard cat as a remix, by Brad O’Farrell. And below that, in the responses, are some of the great other uses. Feel free to add your own!

A British 19-year-old Has Officially Changed His Name to "Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined."

GLASTONBURY, England, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A British 19-year-old has officially changed his name to "Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined." The Glastonbury, England, teenager -- originally named George Garratt -- said his new name, which is thought to be the world's longest, has so outraged his grandmother that she is no longer speaking to him, The Telegraph reported Monday. The teen said he used an online service to officially change his name for a $20 fee. "I wanted to be unique," Captain Fantastic said of his name choice. "I decided upon a theme of superheroes."