Some of My Favorite Links

I know I don't blog here much, anymore, and I keep thinking about ending this blog, but it's my oldest and dearest blog, started on AOL back in 2004, so I keep it, posting infrequently. I don't even know if anyone is still reading it. But here I am, another year about to end. I thought I'd serve up another batch of links.

• The Jewish Tradition of Eating Chinese Food on Christmas goes back longer than I'd thought.
• How NORAD started tracking Santa Claus is a feel-good story.
• "A Former Plantation Begins to Tell a Fuller Story of Slavery in America" is fascinating reading.
• The Maccabeats really scored with their "I Had a Little Dreidel" video.
• Much as I hate to, I must give kudos to the Atlanta Braves (enemy of the NY Mets, boo hiss) for scoring a home run with this "Home Alone" spoof.
• "The Nietzsche Family Circus" is the single panel comic we all didn't know we needed.
• Kit Harrington's Audition Tape with Toothless the Dragon from "How to Train Your Dragon," is priceless.
• Listen to the wind on Mars. So awesome!
• Orthodox Chews are salt water taffy. I need to try some!
• I love these miniature scene bookends. 
• Book trucks (carts) for home use!
• Fake Memorial Statues in NYC fascinate tourists. I need to see one for myself. 
• I love Improv Everywhere, and this streetside work cubicles video is pure genius.
• An artist replaced men with women in iconic western images and the results are wonderful.
• The Library of Congress put a lot of historic films online.
• There's a Sourdough Library, though it seems more like a museum.
• "Thrift Shop Cleverly Uses Pictures of Jeff Goldblum to Sell Its Frames"
• The Brooklyn Art Library is an amazing project.
• SheThority is a wonderful feminist resource started by actresses on the DC Comics TV shows.
• Nathan Fillion made a fan film that's the opening for what could (should) be a feature film. It's wonderful.

That should hold anyone reading this for a while. :D

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