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Kottke announces the winners of the Celebrity Mii Contest. I am so creating a Vito Corleone and Admiral Ackbar now.

A great Short Imagined Monologue from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency — Professor Richard Dawkins speaks at Fair Hills Kindergarten regarding Santa Claus. Be sure to check out all the Short Imagined Monologues.

Since I recently became a father, and with the Christmas holiday looming I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I will eventually handle the whole Santa Claus ruse. The more I think about it, the more it makes sense to explain to my daughter that Santa Claus is simply a mascot for the holiday, [...]

I wrote way back in September about what a truly awful idea a High Fidelity musical was, but no one on Broadway seemed to listen. Now, after seeing the new musical it seems many critics agree with me. The musical will be canceled 11 days after it opened.

Flickr has a pretty cool Xmas easter-egg — if you add a photonote called “ho ho ho hat,” Flickr draws a Santa-hat on your photo; make one called “ho ho ho beard” and you get a snowy white beard. Check it out.

What code doesn’t do in real life (that it does in the movies). A bunch of ridiculous ideas about programming and code that Hollywood can’t seem to stay away from.

Hershey is releasing a first-ever special edition of their Reese’s Peanut Butter cups. The Elvis-inspired candy will feature peanut butter and banana creme inside.

I’ve had a Nintendo Wii for about two weeks now and thought I would share some of my thoughts on this year’s big holiday gift.
The Interface
The Wii interface is clean and very simple to get around. When you turn on your console, you will be treated to the Wii Channels interface. Wii Channels are a [...]

A shirt idea that would be very popular with most everyone I know.

“You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” – Pooh’s Little Instruction Book