During the Council of Elrond scene in Peter Jackson’s 2001 film “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” Boromir pointed out that “One does not simply walk into Mordor.” Mordor is the fictional universe of Middle-earth that is the dwelling place of Sauron. It turns out that if you enter The Shire as your starting point and Mordor as the destination in the walking directions of Google Maps, there is a caution message that says “Use caution – One does not simply walk into Mordor.” Very nice Easter egg, Google Maps.

In December 2010, Jacob Krupnick came up with the idea of making a feature-length dance music video and he approached Anne Marsen about it. In January 2011, they created a trailer and put together a campaign on Kickstarter. Between January and February, Jacob received a lot of attention for the cause and Anne Marsen went to India to explore and study Bollywood dance.

“My president is black, he snorts a lot of crack. Holla #2012 #Obama” is a tweet that was sent out by University of Texas College Republicans president Cassien Wright. Shortly after sending out this tweet, Wright has been all over the news and now her Twitter account is set to private. This is the second time a president of the University of Texas College Republicans sent out an offensive tweet.

Over the last few years, I have seen some very creative Christmas light decorations, including the interactive Guitar Hero Christmas lights and the classic Christmas Lights Gone Wild. In celebration of Angry Birds’ popularity, YouTube user kumbaric, the same person that created the Guitaro Hero Christmas Light game, created this playable Angry Birds Christmas house. It runs on two computers, 10 Light-o-rama 16 channel controllers, 20,000 lights, and less than one cent of electricity per game. The audio is broadcasted on 99.1FM and the controller has a long enough cord for people to play in their cars on the street. Very impressive!

Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) has announced and aftermarket accessory for playing music through a USB mass storage device. The accessory is called the Ford USB Music Box. Songs and albums can be selected using the steering wheel-mounted controls and the USB Music Box can recharge phones and MP3 players when connected. The USB Music Box is compatible with the following vehicles:

Pat Vaillancourt has set the record for the most number of websites addresses tattooed to his body. In total, he has over 10,000 URLs inked between his back and shoulders and he is pushing for 100,000. Here is his story:

First Round Capital has put together a happy holidays card in the form of a parody for the song “Friday” by Rebecca Black. The video features the staff from Path, AppNexus, TaskRabbit, SinglePlatform, Birchbox, Xobni, Jelli, MemSQL, Monetate, 33Across, Turntable.fm, Mashery, Hotel Tonight, Warby Parker, RockMelt, Bitcasa, GroupMe, Milk, Cabana, Get Satisfaction, Kiwi Crate, and ModCloth. Check out the video above. [VentureBeat]

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) will be offering free two-day shipping to any Kindle devices that are ordered by 8PM Pacific Standard Time on December 21st. This is perfect timing for people that want to give this as a Christmas gift. The free two-day shipping is available for the $79 Kindle, $99 Kindle Touch, $149 Kindle Touch 3G, and $199 Kindle Fire. Currently Amazon.com is shipping over 1 million units per week. To receive the deal, customers just need to add a Kindle device into their shopping basket and select a two-day shipping option when checking out. This offer is only available for U.S. customers. [Amazon PR]