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What we’re reading on the blogs today:

We found this Adam Kodord illustration on BoingBoing and are just so entertained by it.

Speaking of the Naughty List, have you been misusing the Comic Sans font? You might be a Comic Sans Criminal. Take the pledge and set the correct tone for all your printed materials forever more. Please.

Do you stare hard at the nutrition facts on boxes of cereal, debating which product is best? (We do this with cereal, bread, toothpaste and shampoo) Globe and Mail health columnist Leslie Beck has a few tips for choosing the right way to start your day. Spoiler: Look for whole grains to be listed as the first ingredient.  Read more...

What we’re reading on the blogs today:

On Salon this weekend, dad Kenneth Rapoza wrote about how he tries to keep his daughters’ belief in Santa going strong. We know what lies parents tell to keep Santa real, so we’re rather impressed with how Rapoza responds to this: “Why does Santa make everything in China anyway?”

Do non-Christians feel excluded by Christmas trees? One Simon Fraser researcher thinks so. Also, perhaps the trees make those with Christian backgrounds feel guilt and stress.

But what about all those non-Christians who contribute to traditional Christmas cheer? Surely those Jewish songwriters who basically created the sounds of our modern Christmas feel included. According to this Globe and Mail article, “The story of modern Christmas music – Jewish Christmas music – begins in 1942, when a Bing Crosby recording of Irving Berlin’s ‘White Christmas’ became the first Christmas tune to reach the hit parade.” It’s actually the best-selling single of all-time.  Read more...

What we’re reading on the blogs today:

RACIST CUPCAKES?! Yeah, we never thought we’d see those words together either until we saw it on The Stir. Duncan Hines has gone and made this “Hip Hop Cupcakes” ad to promote its new Amazing Glazes line. By adding a little flava to vanilla cupcakes, the cupcakes really seem to find their groove.. in blackface. We’re more uncomfortable with the cupcakes than when Roger Stirling dons similar makeup to serenade his stupid wife Jane.

Oh man do we need to see something positive now. Like art teacher Rama Hughes‘ collection of his students’ works on Flickr. Pretty awesome to think the California Landmarks series was all done by 9-year-olds. (Via Tiny Iron Fists)

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