December 2005 Archives

This is making the rounds via email, but it is pretty funny.

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. We also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2006, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other! Cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. And without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee. By accepting these greetings you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself or himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.
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Thanks to the Tempe Public Library, Maricopa County residents can check out and download audio books and ebooks for free from NetLibrary.com.

Instructions on how to set up a NetLibrary account can be found here.

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It's Santa vs. The Snowman

Watch out for The Snowman's secret weapon!

(found at david@revolution via The Next Step via Blogging Church)

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And/or to have around for those long winter nights with holiday visitors.

The 2005 Good Gift Games

By Matthew Baldwin

Being with friends and loved ones is what makes the holidays special—and once you’re fed up with that, it’s time to humiliate them over a board game. Here are this year’s best tabletop entertainments.

I’m something of a game connoisseur, myself—I write reviews for a few publications, host regular game nights, and even do a little freelance designing on the side. So for nearly a decade I have been writing an annual Good Gift Games Guide, to steer folks toward those games that serve well as an introduction to contemporary board games. In particular, I look for three traits:

—Easy to learn, with rules that can be explained in less than five minutes
—Entertaining enough that even the guy who comes in dead last has a great time playing
—Quick, lacking downtime and requiring around an hour to complete

Each of the following games meets these three criteria (or is strong enough in one category to compensate for the others), and was released or re-released in this calendar year.

Thanks to Lifehacker.

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