Saturday Hot Links
Time again for Saturday Hot Links!
Today: The Laughing Babies Edition!
The 10 best Muppets Christmas moments.
11 Christmas songs that never really took off.
12 facts about the 12 Days of Christmas.
16 Christmas party beverages, cocktails and jello shots.
Why is Christmas in December?
25 more movies make the National Film Registry.
Quentin Tarantino’s films as infographics.
Are we secretly living inside a computer program?
Maybe the apocalypse actually happened: Oprah leaves at CAA.
NASA’s new Buzz Lightyear inspired space suit.
Jason Reitman pushes Looper for Best Original Screenplay.
The most spectacular buildings never built.
Damon Lindelof explains why he won’t be writing the sequel to Prometheus.
There are 36,000+ grocery stores in the United states. Meanwhile there are 129,000+ federally licensed gun dealers.
On The Slate with Mike de Luca.
What are frankincense and myrrh, anyway?
How a billionaire made The Hobbit possible.
Instagram’s privacy policy reversal: Too late?
12 things you may not know about A Christmas Story.
Ancient sea monster found… and it’s the first freshwater species!
New Hollywood Reporter iPad mag.
The spider that builds its own lifelike decoys.
Diagnosing the Home Alone burglars’ injuries.
Why flags are flown at half-staff at times of mourning.
How to be a great Hollywood mentor.
Neil Young trademarks a new audio format.
New “Twilight Zone” series in the works.
Predictions for journalism in 2013.
Aaron Sorkin to lend voice to “The Simpsons.”
The science of creativity in 2013: Looking back to look forward.
The legend lives on: Billy Wilder’s estate gives $11M to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
The strangest, most haunting images of Saturn you’ll ever see.
There is no such thing as writer’s block.
Josh Friedman’s “Softcore Bigfoot Porn” thread.
A poster with all of Wile E. Coyote’s ACME purchases.
Roger Corman to remake Edgar Allan Poe stories.
China sees a 90% rise in B.O. from imports in first half of 2012.
“Homeland” is hiring.
25 of the happiest words in English.
Bill Murray reveals why he avoids doing comedies nowadays.
How Stephen King writes description.
6 harsh truths that will make you a better person.
10 essential Russian films.
16 minutes on a 1982 Ms. Pac-Man assembly line [video].
Legendary Entertainment raises $443M.
5 model train sets that won’t fit under the Christmas tree.
Nielsen, Twitter join forces to launch social TV metric.
Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard are now divorced.
Samuel L. Jackson and Anne Hathaway engage in a vicious ‘sad-off’ [video].
The solar-powered bike-car thingy we’ve all been waiting for.
Participant Media launching a cable channel in 2013.
Huge asteroid buzzed by Earth last week [video].
Nathan Fillion hosting the WGA West awards show.
5 ways social media will change the way you work in 2013.
Life of Pi the 2nd Hollywood movie to gross more in China than U.S.
Here is what the human face looks like in a 186 MPH wind.
50 best book-to-movie adaptations.
The shocking number of deaths caused by falling TVs.
What’s the McRib made of, anyway?
How to make a bacon-and-egg pie.
Shine America and Jack Black’s prod co Electric Dynamite to produce comedy series for Yahoo.
Why is space dark?
Supercut of characters saying, “No time to explain” [video].
10 things everybody’s doing on New Year’s Day.
Finally every time you make a child laugh, you are strengthening the connections in that child’s brain.
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