“Jingle Bells” was inspired by the annual sleigh races between Medford Square and Malden Square, and it was written by a rebellious musician with a bad reputation.

Here’s my idea for the night: since my glasses keep slipping, I want to get magnets implanted in my nose, then put little magnets in the nosepads of my glasses. This way, no matter what, my glasses stay on.

A side benefit would be the ability to destroy credit cards with my nose.

On Rick‘s recommendation, I installed Dave’s Quicksearch toolbar. I’m not entirely convinced of its utility, though I’ve not used it much yet.

I’m still quite happy with Opera‘s handling of search queries: in the address bar, type “g term1 term2” to search Google for the listed terms.

When my wristwatch, the wallclock, my cellphone clock, and my PC laptop clock all showed different times, I knew something was up. According to this article, there was a Microsoft time server that wasn’t syncing properly. No problem, says I: add more timeservers with this little registry hack.

If Christmas music hasn’t irritated you sufficiently, I suggest checking out the songs from the Vib Ribbon soundtrack.

These seven songs are supposedly made by a J-Pop band called “Laugh and Beats”. Although I can’t find any reference to the band outside of this soundtrack, I’m sure they really exist, though they probably went into hiding after the game’s release. The music itself can be described as what would happen if you dosed a couple hundred giggly Japanese girls with forty pounds of CIA-grade MDMA, forced them to watch 48 hours’ worth of Loony Toons cartoons, then let them loose in Moby‘s recording studio.

Make a website for your grandfather’s eggnog recipe. Graph the hits to your site during the holidays.

Remember, kids: If Mr. Walken likes eggnog, you should like it too.

Concerned about buying a music CD that won’t play in your home PC or car stereo due to copy protection? Check Fatchuck’s Corrupt CD List before you buy a CD. Also, be sure to purchase new CDs with a credit card, so if they are “defective”, you can return them and contest the charges with your creditor.

Wal-Mart’s got balls.

Large sunspots, as well as those of moderate size, could easily have been viewed using pinhole projection by some ancient observers, had they been so inclined.

I’m not convinced that tactics such as this properly convey PETA’s points regarding cruelty to animals.

Being cruel to animals makes cute blonde actresses want to pose nude for web photos? Hold it a sec.. let me fetch my snowshoes and a club.