This has become something of an annual guilty pleasure.
Awkward family holiday photos
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Bad idea of the day
(via Distinguished Baloney)
Awkward Valentine photos
Oh my! The Daily Beast and AwkwardFamilyPhotos have teamed up to bring you a gallery of awkward Valentine’s Day photos. They really set the mood nicely, although the cats below don’t look very happy.
Christmas in America, part 5
Here is a rule if you are planning a Christmas pageant: never bring in a live camel.
Robokid in Detroit, naturally
Halloween light show
Cheap computing plus cash flow meets the suburbs. (via Andrew Sullivan)
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Have a scary halloween
Happy 4th
(from Rocketboom)
Merry Christmas
Just in time: sketchy Santas
Consider yourself warned. Below is a sample. (via VSL)
Track Santa at NORAD
The kids might be interested in this. NORAD is again tracking Santa in his world-wide journey. His trip has started already.
Holiday quote of the day
I’m starting to get the sense that 2009 wants to finish me off before it dies of old age. A calendrical unit yelling “I’m taking you with me, you bastard!” from its vanishing final paper bunker marked December, every spent day a room deleted from the structure until 2009 is finally huddled in one small box marked 31 and screaming obscenities in stark terror.
- Warren Ellis, writer, from his blog (via Quotation of the Day mailing list)
Best Christmas decoration ever
The real meaning of Thanksgiving
(h/t Paul Krugman)
Arrington: give thanks for Steve Jobs
Michael Arrington has a great essay up highlighting the enormous impact that Steve Jobs has had on multiple industries since his return to Apple in 1997.
Fortune recently named Steve Jobs the CEO of the Decade, and with good reason. Not only has Apple performed financially – it’s worth about as much as Google, and has a larger market cap than AT&T, HP, Intel, Dell and countless other huge tech companies.
But forget all that. What would our world look like without him? We’d likely still be in mobile phone hell. Chances are we still wouldn’t have a decent browsing experience on the phone, and we certainly wouldn’t be enjoying third party apps like Pandora or Skype on whatever clunker the carriers handed us. Even if you use an Android, Palm Pre or newer Blackberry today, you must thank Apple for pushing open the doors to mobile freedom.