The ruminating geeks over at ThinkGeek are offering a subtle, professional way for a fan of Star Trek to strike their colors: officially licensed Star Trek ties. We're not talking ties with gaudy scenes from the various series. These are tasteful, carry only a small Starfleet badge on them and come in three different flavors.

Throw away that dusty Magic 8-Ball. All your key decisions can now be made with a new toy operating on the theory behind an experiment in quantum mechanics. I should point out before we continue there is no real dead cat involved with the toy, just the theory behind it. It's fun! I promise.

Hold onto your chairs, folks, because it's April 1 and everything you see on the Internet today will be a damn lie. In some cases — as it is with ThinkGeek every year — that lie is admittedly awesome. Take the above Angry Birds pork rinds for instance (complete with awesome vid over on ThinkGeek). Now you can enjoy those snorty-laughing pigs as the spoils of war. That's only the tip of the iceberg, though — we've collected our favorite ThinkGeek gags down below.

Those of you who were woken up by a sibling or roommate screaming bloody murder and following up with "April Fools!" are keenly aware of what today is. For the rest of you? Well, you may be close to tears...