A roundup of festive crap sent in to BoingBoing by you, dear readers:
• Evil Christmas Carols (audio). How beautiful! With “sinister” key changes to minor, they sound menacing, like soundtracks to silent movies about damsels in distress on Christmas eve.
• Weird nativity in FL retirement community, above (WTF? Raelians?)
• Scientific formula for blink-free holiday group photos
• War on Moisture: TSA bans snowglobes on planes
• $600 upside-down Christmas tree
• Flickr pool: your strangest holiday ornament
• Roombas singing Christmas carols (video)
• Rankin-Bass Santa + Rudolph rescued (previous BB post)
• 101 Classic Christmas Videos
• Gingerbread Katmari Damacy (above)
• Video: horribly Bad Star Wars Christmas: part 1, part 2
• Ultraviolent Star Trek holiday office diorama
• Baby Jesus kidnapped, returns with snapshots
• A Very Cthulhu Christmas (audio)
• More Ctholhiday cheer: Scary Solstice (audio)
• sf-themed holiday story collection (+ 2, 3, 4, 5)
• Newtonmas crafts (above): holiday tree topper, costume
• Iranian political asylum applicant mom jailed in NC after applying for permit to sell street art (BB reader Pembdasi, who submitted this item, says, “I am her half-brother. I just found out about this today, the day before Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas I suppose.”)
• Silent choir sings “Silent Night” in sign language
• Retro ads: shopping mall Santas arriving by copter, parachute
• Zanta, holiday cult figure in Toronto. Here’s more.
• Boymongoose: 12 days of Christmas, Indian-style (video). Re-blogged by popular demand — everyone I’ve showed this to in person squeals, then emails it to 20 people. About: Link, and you can buy the boy-band’s “Christmas in Asia Minor” album online, in CD or download form: Link. Includes such classic carol faves as “Hark the Herald, Angel Singh,” and “We Are Wishing You A Merry Christmas.”
(Thanks and happy hols, Huw Bowen, Rob Nachbar, Tim Shore, Dave Topping, Mark Vadnais, John/Disney Blog, Scott, Wil, Justin, Human, Mark Wu, Paul Campbell, Tay, Tobias, Robn, Stef, Jacob Appelbaum, and Santa’s Helper!)
