Archive for December, 2008

These are my links for December 22nd:

• Hear the one about the fruitcake made in 1911? It’s still a holiday joke – A 97-year-old fruit cake. Takes the idea of retro food to a whole new level.
• Who Needs a Bailout? Parmesan. – I guess Paremesan needed a little help with Cheddar. Ahem.
• Nearly Half of Women Would Give up Sex Before Internet – Seriously? What is wrong with these people? I am totally not one of these women.

These are my links for December 22nd:

• New Sufjan, It’s A Christmas Miracle! via Stereogum – A new Sufjan Christmas effort, you really can never have too much holiday music.
• Make an Origami Reindeer – Or make 8 of 'em for your origami santa and sleigh.
• Sixeyes: The One And Only Christmas Mix (again) 2008 – ??? Sixeyes MP3 Blog ??? – Another great Christmas mix from Sixeyes — you have to love a mix that includes Johnny Cash, Nina Simone and Captain Kangaroo!
• “Can’t Wrap This” video – Where my scissors at? Hilarious…

These are my links for December 19th through December 21st:

• A Minimalist’s Guide to Using Twitter Simply, Productively, and Funly | Zen Habits – A great perspective on using Twitter — and not having it become yet another burden.
• December 19 — Poor Richard’s Almanac Was Published – On this day in 1732 Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac was published. Also on this day (a short while later), my brother was born. Happy birthday, dude. The present's in the mail. Sorta.
• mental_floss Blog » 8 Chanukah Mysteries Revealed – So, now you know.