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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 25, 2011 04:40 am Lee Winters' Last Christmas One of my favorite Christmas songs is Young Bison's "Lee Winters' Last Christmas," which I found on the 2007 edition of the SSMXMAS collection. I don't know anything about the band, but this sweetly melancholy Christmas song makes me happy every time it shuffles into my player. Lee Winters' Last Christmas ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 25, 2011 04:31 am Some unknown genius (possibly redditor Tmyakal) created this insanely great Portal-themed Christmas Tree that presents the illusion of a tree being shoved through one of the interdimensional portals in the kick ass Valve game. A Very Portal Christmas Tree (imgur.com) (via Super Punch)
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By Amy Seidenwurm on Dec 24, 2011 09:11 pm Squirrel Bait was a band of teenagers from Louisville, Kentucky that formed in 1983. All of their releases (one EP, one album, two singles) add up to less than an hour of music. The band broke up in 1988 when a couple of them went off to college. Incomplete list of bands that include ex-Squirrel ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 24, 2011 07:58 pm I am slowly digesting a rather large semi-traditional Christmas dinner, courtesy of my Welsh-English wife, but this glorious sign brings me vividly back to my childhood with my Jewish-atheist family. Update: Looks like this is a tribute to a David Mamet cartoon. What Us Jews Do for Christmas (imgur.com)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 24, 2011 07:42 pm About the biggest crime in wheels is where the fathers pressed the bearings out and put precision-made ball bearings in. Also they will buff the rubber down about one-eighth of an inch, and then dip the whole wheel in a solution or just plain white gas and by chemical reaction the rubber will react to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 24, 2011 04:14 pm DeviantArt member Tom Banwell made this "fire breather" mask; it's just one example of the many wonderful pieces in his DeviantArt gallery. Fire Breather mask front view (via Super Punch)
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 24, 2011 03:07 pm This early 16th century German rosary from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection is a fabulous bit of memento mori, with callow, living mortals on one side of each bead and grinning death's heads on the other: Each bead of the rosary represents the bust of a well-fed burgher or maiden on one side, and ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 24, 2011 02:18 pm Clones of popular games are nothing new to the video game business. But the modern ease of it, and ready access to online marketplaces, creates a ready supply of shameless knockoffs. The law, however, doesn't always side with outrage. [Guardian]
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 24, 2011 02:01 pm The Electronic Frontier Foundation rounds up "the year in secrecy," a year's worth of shame and excuses in the realm of official secrecy from "the most transparent administration in history." As catalogs of outrage go, it's a pretty fine example. * Government report concludes the government classified 77 million documents in 2010, a 40% increase ...
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