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Our good friend JR over at Don't Floss With Tinsel is having a contest to determine the Worst Christmas Song Ever. Send JR your mp3 or wav files of the worst Christmas music you can find and he'll choose the worst 10 entries he receives. Then everyone gets to vote on which bad song qualifies as the worst Christmas tune ever with the winning entry playing on DFWT continuously all Christmas day. So gang, let's dig through our mp3 collections and assault JR's ears.

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My electricity has been off all morning. It just came back about 10 minutes ago, but now I've got to get my stuff together and scoot, so I just wanted to direct all of you over to Respectful Insolence where Orac lays the smackdown (again!) on the HIV/AIDS "skeptics" who don't believe the massive amounts of evidence that HIV is the cause of AIDS. Orac is, as usual, informative and brutally intelligent in his rebuttal. Well worth the read.
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Via Pharyngula, we have the Random Frog Generator for your amphibious button clicking fun.

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I just heard on a local NPR affiliate that 18% of the front pages of the newspapers shown at the Newseum ran stories about the launch of the XBox 360. Sorry, no confirming link.

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Well, I'm still under the influence my gobbler induced L Tryptophan high, so I'll leave you for today with Pharyngula's insightful and timely piece on Penis Evolution.

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If you've been surfing the web for longer than a couple of years you're probably acquainted with X10, the makers of various home security and automation devices. Unless you were an early adopter of popup blocking software (or Mozilla Firefox) then you were likely inundated with a blizzard of X10's ads everytime you visited a major site like Yahoo.

I was recently reminded how these ads often bordered on soft-core porn when pohl over at Slashdot posted a link to this online gallery of X10 ads. I'm not exactly sure why, but the fact that anyone would actually collect X10 popup ads just amuses me to no end. X10 also figures prominently in this NY Times article giving Google credit for confining popups and other intrusive advertising to the shitcan of cyberhistory.

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Having been rather busy lately I haven't commented yet on Kansas' decision to legislate Intelligent Design into the science classroom. What is there really for a thinking person to say on this subject? I mean, other than "Nice job, morons." Besides, there are many people far more qualified to speak on this subject such as PZ Myers. However, I thought Scientific American Editor In Chief John Rennie pretty well summed up the issue. [...]
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Heh... Just thought I'd point this out.

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