Omakase linkdump: Merry Craftsmas

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

Top 10 DIY Christmas trees

$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!)