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Hello HPG readers old and new, and welcome to the inner reaches of my brain. Welcome to the hive mind!

I’m sure this isn’t news to any of you who read sites like HotPinkGeek regularly, but I spend a good portion of my time ‘researching’ the most ridiculous things on the internet and sharing them with those who will listen (and a few who really won’t).

Over the next few days I’ll be sharing with you my favourite lists of 2009 — websites, crazy people, whoa-worthy videos — everything you’ve come to expect from HotPinkGeek and more!

Without further ado, here’s today’s list: Websites where you can waste absurd amounts of time!

Now, I’ve not spent a lot of time organizing them into rank – in my head or otherwise – so I want you to look at this list as one solid, flowing piece of crap artwork wherein you could randomly choose a link and be whisked away to a magical land of ridiculous/funny/mind-blowing and lose the better portion of your productive work day. I am to distract and amuse!
And… go! (Click here for HPG’s Top 25 of 2009: Websites where you can waste absurd amounts of time)

So far on Hot Pink Geek we have had geeky maternity clothes and geeky baby gifts but what do you do when the little one is starting to crawl around and play with things. Obviously standard toys simply wont due for your little Marie Curie or Rene Descartes but fear not spawning geek parents (myself included), ThinkGeek is there for us!

Young Mad Scientest Alphabet Blocks teach our budding Dr. Frankenstein’s everything from A is for Appendage to Z is for Zombies and everything in between.

U is for Underground Lair and other important childhood lessons.

This is by far the best and most creative baby blanket I have ever seen.  I have two kids of my own and I am sitting here pouting a little that I didn’t open this at my baby showers.  If I could knit I would start making these for every person I know who is pregnant or could even possibly become pregnant in the possible near future.

Seriously mad props to the mom who made the Cthulu Blankie!

As a Halloween dinner treat, I stumbled on this great way to serve meatloaf.  Lucky for all involved, I make an awesome meatloaf.

Fellow blogger notmartha instructs us on how to make a meat hand!

notmartha's genius creation

I tried my own hand… at making said meat hand.  I went with the ‘cheese on top’ option.

Without as many tries as she had it didn’t turn out as well but I was still very happy with the result and it was delicious and creepy to serve.

Suggested listening: Evil Dead: The Musical soundtrack because, really, what goes better with cooking a meal that looks like zombie bits than a music about zombies and killing them?

Now I don’t know how to knit but it’s been on my list of things to learn for a while now. Truth be told, I’ve tried to learn a few times and it’s one of those things I’m thisclose to admitting I just can’t grasp but I’m thinking these patterns might have sparked my interest in learning how again.

Knitted Hooch Cozies

Incredible craft site theanticraft.com has these super awesome knitted hooch cozies in their Samhain section for 2009.

Being a Browncoat of course I love the Big Damned Hooch best of all but they’re all wicked cool and a great way to keep the good stuff hidden from moochers.

Happy knitting and happier drinkin!