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This week, something for the weekend. With any luck you’ll be having a lovely Christmas/Holiday this year. A celebration which might even be enhanced by the fact that you have loved ones around you and possibly presents to open. Nevertheless, with lulls in conversation and the inevitable snooze during the Queen’s Speech on the horizon you might find your mind wandering; wandering upstairs to the spare room and onto the World Wide Web where, hopefully, your hard drive hasn’t had as much egg-nog as you.Fancy sending Christmas cheer through the medium of your own snowflake? Of course you do and Popular Front’s Snowdays is the perfect place to do it. Click on one of the flakes in the virtual snow scene and read the message within. Then you can reply to your new best pal with a season’s greeting of your own. Cheesy but sweet with it, you can design your own snowflake, put a message in it and send it to pals too. If Christmas makes you want to destroy stuff (perhaps you are Satan, for example) you might want to know 50 facts about one-time Hollywood hard man, Chuck Norris. These Top 30 Facts are truly hilarious, although bent in weird ways. Did you know, for example, that Chuck Norris “does not hunt because the word hunting infers the probability of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing.” Ricky Gervais’ Guardian podcast is currently the most popular podcast on the net, and with good reason because it’s very funny. Although Gervais and Merchant are household names, “sidekick” Karl Pilkington is a comedic revelation, having a very tenuous grip on reality that seems to amuse them greatly. Perhaps playing some vintage videogames online might remind you of simpler Christmas days. Yo! Games has a fistful of classic games such as Space Invaders, Simon and Asteroids that should entertain you ‘til the end of EastEnders at the very least. And lastly, for those who can’t make it through Christmas without a slice of satire, Devil Ducky has a little cartoon from the Saturday Night Live gang. It concerns Jesus poking around Christmas 2005. Now go back downstairs you lazy swine, the washing up’s probably been done by now. And Happy Christmas to you all.
Richard Hector-Jones
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