So, between redesigning the site, subscribing to a whole lot of new rss feeds, celebrating Christmas 4 times, New Years, a bowl game, a wedding, running, and work, I seem to have managed to get even further behind on posting things than usual. In light of this, I’ll probably be sprinkling in a few more link heavy, commentary light posts here and there, such as this one.
Christmas:
- Good comic at Indexed.
- The Christmas spirit (sort of), from a worker at a tree lot over at Secrets of the City.
- I was previously unaware, but apparently The Salvation Army is a cult. No, seriously, like a real cult. I didn’t know. No more change for them. Okay, so I haven’t given them change in years, since I stopped generally carrying cash at all. But anyway, scary cult.
- Christmas memories in the making at One Sentence.
- Cute holiday pictures at Simple Sparrow. I especially like the one with the little deer figurine.
- There are some messed up, and pretty, Christmas tradition around the world, at Big Picture. #12 struck me as particularly interesting. Had anyone else ever heard of Krampus before?
- Santa’s family tree, via BoingBoing
New Years
- Pretty New Years candle video, via Drawn, with a slight bit of explanation.
- JibJab Year in Review, via Drawn
- Dave Berry has a great year in review as well, via Reason. Really good. I started putting block quotes of greatness in here from it, but there’s way to much awesome. Go read it. It’s long, it’s worth it. Have you read it yet? No really, go read it, best part of this post.
Inauguration
- Giant map used to plan the whole spectacle. Makes me think of a bunch of WWII generals gathered around something like this with toy soldiers and model airplanes planning out an invasion as they hear things over the telegraph.
- Keith Olbermann covers a pretty good chunk of Bush’s bungling in about 8 minutes. Not an exhaustive list by any means, and pretty obviously biased, but still a good round up/history. He barely even touches on the Anthrax attacks, carried out with Anthrax from a government lab, with one of the most totally botched investigations ever only concluding when the primary suspect (the second time they had one) killed himself, and the case against him basically fell apart. Remember that? No one else does either.
- A short list, which links to a long list, that cover some, um, high points? of the Bush Administration. Somewhere between funny and absolutely horrifying.
- Given the previous points, anyone care to place bets on how long until Obama pardons Bush and his whole administration for “any possible wrong doing”? A couple weeks? A month maybe? Change we can believe in.
Have you read the Dave Berry post yet? Seriously, I was almost in tears laughing by the end.