This medical journal article treats Gollum as a subject in a scholarly analysis of his disorders:

There is no disorder of the form of thought. He uses neologisms such as "triksy" and "hobbitses." Gollum has nihilistic thoughts, believing that he is a murderer, liar, and thief; although there is some basis in fact for this and he shows little guilt or remorse. He is preoccupied with, and deeply desires, the ring. He has obsessive thoughts but no compulsions, though he would do anything for the ring. He is hostile towards Frodo, the current owner of the ring. He has paranoid ideation about Sauron ("the eye is always watching") and about Samwise Gamgee ("the fat hobbit... he knows"). Gollum has difficulty controlling his thoughts and actions, exacerbated by prolonged contact with the ring. As Gandalf and Frodo have similar symptoms in the presence of the ring, we can attribute this somatic passivity to the ring. There are features of dissociation. Smeagol has separated his personality and is now Gollum as well.

Link (via Oblomovka)

Two stun-gun manufacturers will add video-recorders to the next generation of their guns, for forensic purposes.

The video cameras will essentially record whenever a person is hit with one of the guns, which immobilize a victim by shooting massive amounts of electricity through them. The electricity does not kill or permanently damage a person hit, according to the companies, but being hit hurts quite a bit.

Link (via Engadget)

Jason sez, "Knowing how crazy Boing Boing readers are for origami and paper models, I thought you might be interested in Pepakura Designer, which lets you print out plans for paper models from objects designed in common 3D modelers... The demo has the save featured disabled, but you can still print your objects. It works with objects from 3D Studio, Lightwave, AutoCAD and a few others." Link (Thanks, Jason!)

Douglas sez, "Although I've spent a fair bit of law school debating various aspects of what people can (or should be able to) bind themselves to with clickwrap and shrinkwrap licenses, the one fact that everyone acknowledges is that nobody ever reads the fine print. Here's some truly classic fine print on the receipt from my local video store, circa last Halloween." Link (Thanks, Douglas!)