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* Apologies. Yesterday I said they'd had the START treaty to read since Summer. It was actually April. Republicans are claiming that they hadn't enough time to read the bill as they've only had it since April.

* Happy 62nd birthday Samuel L Jackson!

* Sparkindarkness on FIFA and homophobia: http://sparkindarkness.livejournal.com/375580.html?style=mine

* Looks like Mom and I are doing a joint gift of chocolate for the awful Aunt, only I haven't her new address, so no chance of it arriving quickly. (I've emailed around for it).

* I case you missed it, Deusabscondum has the clip of Rachel Maddow's DADT repeal coverage, including the moving group interview with discharged soldiers: http://deusabscondidum.livejournal.com/190700.html?mode=reply&style=mine

* Christmas light displays: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-12-17/christmas-light-displays-worlds-most-outrageous-overdecorated-houses/?cid=bsa:mostpopular2

* Wow, the more Gulliver commercials they run the less attractive the movie.

* Cheapest Toy Roundup: The all-dollar-store edition: http://www.avclub.com/articles/cheapest-toy-roundup-the-alldollarstore-edition,49289/1/

* My way of handling this was: 1. I hardly ever mapped things after a while and relied on crude sketches as players needed them. 2. I made a rule that they needed a weeks warning if they were planning to randomly bugger off to say Ireland or North Africa. It worked fine: http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0507.html

* Holiday Issue BMJ findings: http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-bmj-christmas-20101218,0,7337622.story