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Thursday, December 7, 2006

December 2006

12/31/06

12/30/06

Apropos to the Last Entry...

12/30/06

12/29/06

Your Friday Music: Regina Spektor

12/29/06

The Year In the Universe

12/28/06

Weekend Assignment #145: 2007 Resolutions

12/28/06

12/27/06

What Sex is Your Brain?

12/27/06

Culture: Not Just For Yogurt Anymore

12/26/06

Now You Know What To Do With Those One Billion Rats You Got For Christmas

12/26/06

I'm Dreaming of a White Boxing Day, Just Like the Ones I Used to Know

12/25/06

Your Monday Photo Shoot: Loot!

12/25/06

Holiday Greetings From All Around

12/24/06

What Day Is It?

12/24/06

Because By This Point You're Probably Just Sort of Sitting There Dazed Anyway

12/24/06

It's Also The World's Most Terrified Dog

12/23/06

12/23/06

In the New York Times

12/22/06

Just So You Know...

12/22/06

Just One More Day Until Festivus!

12/22/06

First Rule of Finances: Don't Spend More Than You Earn

12/22/06

"I Know How They Feel," Said Chuck Kwanzaa

12/22/06

Please Don't Think of Them as "Finger Food"

12/21/06

Weekend Assignment #144: Holiday Greetings

12/21/06

Look! Festively Humiliated Pets!

12/21/06

Someone Who Definitely Has Gotten a Message From God

12/21/06

Next Week's Holiday Schedule

12/21/06

The Ultimate Smartypants Quiz

12/20/06

It's That Funky Fresh DJ Chaucer, Yo

12/20/06

Remembering Carl Sagan

12/20/06

Putting Your Tax Dollars to Excellent Use On an Annual Basis

12/20/06

For Your Last-Minute Frugal Gift-Giving Needs

12/20/06

Holy Cow, This is Pretty

12/19/06

How Many Novelists Sell Their First Novel?

12/19/06

Look! More Free Reading!

12/19/06

The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow

12/19/06

Give up TV? That's Un-American!

12/19/06

Strangely, Office Space is Not One of the Movies

12/18/06

Toys in the Attic

12/18/06

Your Monday Photo Shoot: Festive Pets

12/18/06

Look, Folks, Gawker is Trying to Help You, in That Snide, Condescending Way It Has

12/18/06

Proof That Some People Will Do Anything for Chocolate

12/18/06

A Christmas Tradition I'll Be Just Fine Not To See Carried Over to the US

12/17/06

Your Million Dollar Home

12/17/06

12/16/06

When So Much Is Not Enough

12/16/06

It All Adds Up!

12/15/06

And For Those For Whom It Applies:

12/15/06

Meanwhile, Snow Showed Up on Satan's Doorstep

12/15/06

Santa's Got a Gun!

12/15/06

One Heartless Canadian

12/15/06

Your Politicians At Work

12/15/06

The Problem With Computerized Copy-Editing

12/14/06

Weekend Assignment #143: What You'd Want, If You Were a Kid

12/14/06

The Trees of December

12/14/06

Remember That When You Gaze Into The Mouse Retina, The Mouse Retina Also Gazes Into You

12/14/06

Here's a Headline I Wasn't Expecting to Read Today

12/14/06

(Not) The Best Toys Ever

12/13/06

Look To The Skies!

12/13/06

Probably Best Saved For April, But What the Heck

12/13/06

In Today's Edition of Nifty Film Director Tricks

12/13/06

Yet Another Reason To Be Happy You're Canadian (Or Happy That You're Not Canadian, Perhaps)

12/13/06

Two Wildly Different Ways of Wrapping Up 2006

12/12/06

Give These Christmas Songs the Axe

12/12/06

Because You Sure Look Like You Need Your Mind Blown Today

12/12/06

Here's to a Scam-Free 2007 -- Yeah, Right

12/12/06

All I Want for Christmas is a Monkey-Navigated Rocket Car

12/12/06

Making It Up To You

12/11/06

Your Monday Photo Shoot: Trees and Menorahs!

12/11/06

Slightly More Advanced Than That Paper Airplane You've Been Working On

12/11/06

And Now I Feel Like a Total Slacker

12/11/06

12/10/06

12/10/06

12/10/06

Big Chewy Ideas -- Yum

12/9/06

Just Perfect for a Late Saturday Afternoon

12/8/06

Technology Orphans

12/8/06

The Most Unspeakably Adorable Game in the History of Man

12/8/06

Author Interview Week: Sean Williams

12/8/06

The Elves Are Restless Tonight

12/8/06

Yeah, But They Didn't Do Elvis Any Favors, Did They?

12/7/06

Weekend Assignment #142: Kill These Christmas Songs

12/7/06

On Your Mark, Set, Decorate!

12/7/06

Author Interview Week: Sarah Hoyt

12/7/06

There is Absolutely No Correlation Between the Size of a Man's Swiss Army Knife, and, Well, You Know

12/7/06

Let's Not Even Contemplate What Happens to Buttered Toast

12/6/06

On the Subject of Burnout

12/6/06

Today's Finalist in the "Paragraphs a Reporter Never Imagined Ever Writing" Sweepstakes

12/6/06

Note to Self: Travel to the Future for a Rollertoaster

12/6/06

Author Interview Week: Charles Stross

12/6/06

She Really Was Always Kind of Scary

12/5/06

Looks Like I Will Be Up Against the Wall When the Revolution Comes

12/5/06

Start Saving for Therapy Bills... Now

12/5/06

Possibly My Favorite Christmas Slide Show Ever

12/5/06

Author Interview Week: Karen Traviss

12/5/06

They Ate Themselves Into Extinction, That's What Happened

12/4/06

Your Monday Photo Shoot: Winter Decorations

12/4/06

Author Interview Week: Karl Schroeder

12/4/06

On Getting Going (and Coming Back)

12/4/06

Focus on the Pretty

12/4/06

Just in Case Playing Sudoku Seems, You Know, Too Easy

12/3/06

For Those of you Who Can't Wait for the TBS Marathon:

12/3/06

No, I Didn't Forget --

12/3/06

Thumpa Thumpa Thumpa

12/2/06

And Now This Shocking News Bulletin

12/2/06

Telescopes! On the Moon!

12/1/06

Staring at the Sun

12/1/06

Free Movies from AOL?

12/1/06

The Fattest Dog You'll See Today

12/1/06

Welcome to December -- Get a Shovel

« December 2006 Archive

Thursday, December 7, 2006
9:30:00 AM EST
Hearing Bad -- U2

On Your Mark, Set, Decorate!

Oh, look, I'm actually getting the results of a Monday Photo Shoot up on Thursday for the first time in a month. Maybe now I won't get fired. Maybe.

But enough about my own failings as a human being! Let's look at wintertime decorations! Click the links below to see:

A merchant marine Santa lamp

An entirely unjealous look at a neighbors' lights

A Santa-festooned clock

Decorations among donations

Santa pup!

Carolers and elves

Snow angels and nutcrackers

Decorations displayed in their undisplayed state

Popsicle stick stars

Snowmen! My wife collects snowmen too, incidentally.

Stockings, hung by the chimney, presumably with care

And a winter wreath.

What a perfect set of photos for a crisp winter day such as this. Thanks, everyone!

I'm not going to say what next week's Photo Shoot is going to be, but I will say if you haven't gotten and decorated the tree yet this year, or dusted off the menorah, you might want to get on that before Monday. You know, just in case.

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#3 Comment from bshjc
12/8/06 9:49 PM | Permalink

To Snowmen: I have that same snowman that hangs on the wal=in the burgandy plaid! He sits on my burgandy recliner, on the arm. He always makes me smile. I too, collect snowmen decorations and have way too many...I use many thru out the winter here in Michigan.

Merry Christmas!
#2 Comment from monponsett
12/7/06 2:07 PM | Permalink

No Fair!

I'm French. We decorate late.
#1 Comment from lurkynat
12/7/06 12:22 PM | Permalink

wow John!Awesome! looks over at Caroline, Shauneen, Bea , Carly, Charlie
"Wow guys! Too cool! really putrs you in the Holday spirit!
hugs,natalie
(looks around for Smurfette..)