Things We Saw Today: These Hobbit Cupcakes Would Make for a Great Second Breakfast

Cupcakes are appropriate for every meal, OK? Pics of the individual cupcakes, by Wellington, New Zealand’s Imaginarium Cakes, can be found at Between the Pages.

• Is this Christmas card of Alexander Skarsgård wearing a snowflake sweater and cradling a Santa hat-wearing cat Photoshopped? Probably. Do I care? No. (via The Frisky)
• Via MIT Technology Review, meet Julie Larson-Green, the head of Windows product development at Microsoft and “The Woman Charged With Making Windows 8 Succeed.”

Channel your inner Luna Lovegood with these earrings by Etsy seller EnchantedLeaves. (via Neatorama)

• Badass Digest tells us all about the time J.R.R. Tolkien pulled a George Lucas and retconned parts of the The Hobbit. He had a better reason than “Man, the Ewoks should really blink!,” though.

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