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Friday, December 23, 2005

I have a lot of these to get through and Christmas Eve is less than 24 hours away.

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Until the Agry Alien bunnies did their own version I'd never heard of Christmas Story then suddenly everyone started doing their own mash ups of it, like A Christmas Gory

Of course if you prefer something a little more sweet there's always It's a Wonderful Internet

Letters to Walken- just in case Santa doesn't deliver


I Love NY Snow Globe - gritty realism permeates the world of snow globes and in case this isn't enough, there are more snow globes at Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz

Two US groups will tracking Santa on the day. America is clearly sh*t-scared of St Nick although I doubt he intends to go anywhere near the no-fly zone over the Whitehouse this year:
NORAD Tracks Santa 2005
Santa Track

Other Americans have clearly got into the true spirit of Christmas -Santa Crime Scene Display Grabs Attention Deliciously sick; they even took out a few reindeer. So naturally I love it.

houseblinger.com - houses decorated with Christmas lights - Most of my neighbourhood should be in here. No sooner had the last firework fizzled out in November than our retinas were further assualted by the multitude of neon Santas flashing their way the sides of houses. However this guy has out-blinged the planet.

Mutant Snowflakes where are the mutant snowflakes THIS season?

Games (which are naturally mandatory at this time of year):
Santa Balls - a bejewelled knock-off with balls
Chaos kitties in snow suits...catching things
Helicopter game - one of those games that's fun ot play if you get the hang of it, otherwise a great way to test your boredrom threashold

Happy Holidays! - Christmas cards with attitude

If David Lynch made The Twelve Days Of Christmas

Mistletoe and Meat - A brutally honest advent calendar

A Cats Christmas - A cat's guide to Christmas tree decoration

SCARED OF SANTA GALLERY: Tis the season to be scared witless - a collection of hapless infants caught in the act of crapping themselves when first confronted by a Santa.

Santastic offers some suitably season tunes (my personal favourite is The Christmas Massacre of Charlie Brown even if the most appealing thing about it is the title)

MacSanta what does Santa do when he's off duty?

Tom Smith Online - Free Stuff - former home of the Twelve Days of Star Wars, which IMHO is thethe ulitmate filk.


And finally:

Dear Santa

For Christmas please can I have a copy of The Ultimate Star Trek Collection on DVD.
Yes, I know it's $2,499 on Amazon but I really have been a good girl this year

Thanks


Have a good one see y'all in 2006

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Saturday, December 17, 2005

This just in from the trenches: Operation Kringle Kill - the journals of a soldier in the 101st Polar division, actively in engaged in the War on Christmas.

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Thursday, December 15, 2005

How to fix Mom and Dad's computer - a geek's guide to surviving the holidays and the inevitable requests to 'have a look at my computer'.

This is written for Americans but for Thanksgiving just read Christmas and you'll get a good idea of what I'm preparing for this holiday season.

Now where did I put that backup CD...?

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The Penguin Podcast - Penguin books (gawd bless 'em one 'n all) are offering a daily helping of "A Christmas Carol" as read by Geoffrey Palmer. The recording has been split into 5 parts and a new part will be online every day (except this coming Sunday).

I think my cup just ranneth over.

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Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Fuck Christmas - it may be just a tad heavy on the profanity but I love this rant

Extract:

“But we want to display our Christmas tree on city property!” You can, go right ahead. “They’re stopping us from praying in school!” They’re not, so fuck off. “We’re not allowed to say ‘Merry Christmas’ anymore!” Are you fucking kidding me? Knock yourself out. Say it at work, scream it in your high school lunch room, hell, tattoo it on your fucking forehead for all we care. Guess who’s gonna be there defending your right to do every one of those things? The fucking ACLU. One of these days you bastards are going to drive those fuckers out of business, and then you’ll see some actual attacks on your religious liberties....

...We’re not going to hell, assholes, we’re fucking in hell. We live with you.

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Monday, December 12, 2005

When Memes collide

Zombie-Claus 2005 - what happens when Zombie flash mobbing meets Santa flash mobbing.

"As Santas become the undead their perspectives about Christmas have changed. They are now protesting the over commercialization of the Christmas holiday and it’s encroachment into the traditional Zombie holiday of Halloween"

Meanwhile Santacon UK will be on Dec 17th, the day after the Ann Arbour event

Assuming Santa survives, that is.

Ho-Ho-Arrrrrgh

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Sunday, December 26, 2004

Merry Christmas from Icon raremedia - the game itself is lame but the introduction, featuring industrial relations negociations between a foul-mouthed elf and a medallion-wearing Santa on steroids, is pretty good.

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Saturday, December 25, 2004

Child's Christmas in Wales - I love this short story. And having spent many Christmasses in Wales as a child, I'd like to think it is pretty accurate.

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Friday, December 24, 2004

Ugly Christmas Lights - Yeti vs. Snoopy - the kind of site that makes you go "Hmm, Merry Christm....WHAT THE F%&*!?!?!?"

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Thursday, December 23, 2004

Google Holiday Logos - for the last five years Google has been happy to show its more playful side by customising its logo to commemorate special events such as Thanksgiving, Easter, Dwali etc.

Given that most companies regard their branding as a corporate sacred cow, this approach indicate an impressive level of self-confidence (which appears to be justified too).

Beginning with a rather weird little storyline involving the abduction of the logo by aliens, Google "Doodles" are now reserved for really special occasions which span several days - eg. the Olympics and Christmas. This year marks the welcome return of the Polar Bears who appear to be gearing up for a snowball fight.

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Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Christmas 04 - Santa's mad as hell and he's not going to take it any more.

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Sunday, December 19, 2004

If like me, you haven't finished writing all your Xmas cards, you might like to get some ideas from this gallery of Unfortunate Christmas Cards. These make e-cards look like a really good idea.

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Friday, December 17, 2004

When Santas go bad: BBC NEWS | Wales | Mid Wales | Santas accused of street brawl - apparently the fight occured some time after the race, allowing the organisers to claim that the offenders had nothing to do with the Santa fun run.

Yeah, they just happened to be in the area wearing Santa Costumes, riiiight.

Of course this pales in comparison to the SantaCon '96 participants in Portland who were met with a SWAT team.

According to Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club - nice tie-in to Wednesday):

There's usually one host city that different chapters from around the world go to for one weekend, usually about two weeks before Christmas. Everybody arrives dressed as Santa Claus, using the name "Santa Claus," and the host city usually has two to three days of continuous events. People drink and party and sing, and disrupt big benefit parties, and are basically public nuisances. But the fact that there's 400 of them all in red makes them this stunning sort of moving artwork. They call it "The Red Tide." It's really beautiful. When I did it in '96, at one point it was all these Santas against this SWAT team of cops, because the Santas wanted to get into a shopping center that was private property. It was so beautiful to see all these blue policemen juxtaposed with all these red Santas, and all these crying kids that were like, "Why are you beating up on Santa?" This year, they're talking about Tijuana as the host city, but no one wants to get busted in Tijuana.

SantaCon is organised by Cacophony who also organised Wednesday's Flash-Mob style Pillow Fight Club event and a mini-SantaCon at Victoria Station last weekend - I think I may be posting more about them in the future.

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Thursday, December 16, 2004

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! - I suspect I may finally be getting into the holiday spirit...

...that's the weird, strange holiday spirit of course.

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Thursday, December 02, 2004

I'm getting into the whole Christmas thing a bit early this year. This probably has a lot to do with the fact that some friends of mine have just produced a Christmas CD and asked me to build them a web page to sell it.



Still, you haven't lived until you've heard Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer as a Bossa Nova....

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Thursday, January 01, 2004

Ugly Christmas Lights.com! - I just don't want the festive spirit to end....

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Thursday, December 25, 2003

Exmas Card - featuring axe-weildiing Santas, a vigilante kid and a really beat-up robin. Merry Christmas anyone?

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Flatulina's Fabulous World! - Fart music for the holidays... your favorite Xmas songs performed by someone with chronic hypergastroplosia

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Friday, December 19, 2003

From now until the New Year, I'm not putting up anything serious or even news-related in this blog. This is partly because after the year we've all had, I think we deserve all the fun we can get.

But it's also because I'm going away over Xmas and I'm doing all this stuff about 2 weeks in advance.

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Thursday, December 20, 2001

Crackermatic - send a virtual Christmas cracker by email. - lots of fun! (actually I just enjoyed abusing the elves...)

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