I’ve been struggling here for a bit trying to decide which of two posts to leave for ya’ll on Christmas Day. I had planned to go with the feel-good YouTube video of the Apollo 8 Astronauts reading the creation story from Genesis in the Bible during their trip to the moon. Can you imagine the screams about that today? The Festivus celebrators along would have shut down NASA’a switchboard.

Some fun for us music geeks…

Hey, I played a bass when I was kid and couldn’t stop laughing. A Merry Christmas to all!

Dick in a Box from Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg

Andy is the highlight of SNL these days for me…and if you want to see the uncensored version you can find it on NBC’s site.

‘Tis the Season and I’m one of those folks that does most of my gift buying online. Most of that tends to go to stores that I have some experience with now, but once in a while a DEAL beckons from an unknown site.

The folks over at BuySafe point toward this short article listing 6 tips for safe online buying. Check it out and buy safely!

I’d gone months without an iPod after my last one got stolen this summer. It was soooo painful. Suddenly the music was gone. The Podcasts were gone. All replaced by commercial radio. Now I remember why I got an iPod. But I couldn’t bring myself to go without lunch for a few months in order to buy one of the current big disk versions. It just seems too likely that the Apple phone or the true “video iPod” is likely to be out soon.