Cooties PSA. I thought this was amusing, having been obsessed with not catching boy cooties in the 4th grade. But I'd never heard the cooties innoculation chant until today! We just used invisible cootie spray. What were your playground cootie or other rhymes and chants, and where did you live at that time? (I was in Dayton, Ohio.)

'Embuggerance': British humorist Terry Pratchett, 59, diagnosed with "rare form of early onset Alzheimer's." more inside

Binocular Soccer. A new Olympic sport? Should be! Another product of Takeshi Kitano's comic genius.

That should be errata. Northern Exposed regrets the error. One million murders in Detroit. 40-45 pounds of shrimp. Dewey beats Truman. And more!

A tough-guy's Christmas Story (part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5). more inside

Who ate all the pies? Um...me! Dog nearly ruins fat blert's chances.

Buy less crap this year. Please! Nothing here that won't be familiar to most MoFians but it doesn't hurt to have a timely seasonal reminder that our profligate lifestyle's days are necessarily numbered. (Flash Animation) more inside

Ike Turner 1931-2007. The man who wrote the first rock and roll song has died at his home in San Diego.

The comic genius of Tina Fey. A nice little well-linked essay on Tina Fey, and why 30 Rock is the best show on TV right now (despite our earlier predictions)

JELLY ROLL It must be .. (?) .. coz Jelly don't wobble like that!

How to pose. Not much else to say really. I'll let you monkeys do the clever commentary on this one.

On U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. From a link posted by the ever-vigilant thread updater H Dawg in the Giuliani thread.

"...sometimes the cabin gets airborne and comes down with a thump..." Justin Jones and James Castrission are about midway through a trans-Tasman kayak journey, hoping to be the first to kayak from Australia to New Zealand. They left Forster, north of Sydney, on November 13 in a heavily modified kayak with cabin large enough to sleep the paddlers top-and-tail, and with plenty of computer hardware for nav tracking and communication. However, their tall, square cabin is causing them to move backwards at about 1km/hour in head winds. Whatever: we here in NZ are just hoping they stay alive. more inside

This may be the most awesomest music video evar. more inside

Donald Trump Leaves $10,000 Tip Donald Trump tipped a waiter $10,000. Derober has a copy of the receipt from The Buffalo Club in Santa Monica, CA where the Trump left a hefty tip on a $82 bill.

Listening to film. "If the first rule of film criticism is to watch the movie, the second is to listen to it." Special bonuses: one list of the top soundtracks ever, plus another, and then some more.

Doris Lessing's Nobel acceptance speech. Doris Lessing, aged 88, has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In her acceptance speech she recalls her childhood in Africa and laments that children in Zimbabwe are starving for knowledge, while those in more privileged countries shun reading for the "inanities" of the internet. more inside

"E` la mamma." No matter how old or how important you are in Italy, you'd better answer the phone. more inside

World's Most Unusual Christmas Trees

NSFW™ Fark wants to trademark the phrase "Not safe for work." Discuss.