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Overheard on the Web, and other Web links From The Herald's Research Editor

Just in time for the Holdays... 

Remember the folks at JibJab, two brothers who produced the great "This Land" animation that poked fun at both Presidential candidates, George Bush and John Kerry? Now they've come up with a holiday animation, JibJab's Grumpy Santa. It takes a few steps to get to the film, as it takes you through a Yahoo! site. If you want a copy you can get to faster, you can pay to download.
(via Lost Remote.)

Have one, anyway
While we're on the topic of the coming holiday, there's a timely post by regular Vanity Fair contributor James Wolcott, who notes a rash of complaints about whether 'Merry Christmas' is a dying expression. Not so, says Wolcott:

"This "fear of Christmas" is a phantom menace conjured every year so that certain crybaby Christians can adopt victim status and model a pained expression over the sad fact that not everyone around them isn't carrying on like the Cratchits."

This is probably a surprise to The Committee to Save 'Merry Christmas', which organized a boycott of Macy's this year, despite the fact that, as Wolcott points out, The Macy's Web site "...wishes a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays".

Love of lights:
If you love to look at lavishly decorated holiday homes, here's a great Website that lets you see great light displays all over the country...and the world: Planet Christmas' Showing off in 2004 has photos sent in by proud homeowners, some of them with links to their personal Websites as well.

posted by liz at 5:08 PM