You should read this for 12/25/2016: Encouraging kindness in social networks, a Trumpish short story, finding the lost kingdoms, and Spirograph is even better than you remembered.
Kevin Barrett of Postlight on Building Kind Social Networks“In reality, addressing abuse is not a scale, but a switch.”
A five year project to investigate the “lost” kingdoms of Northern Europe.
Via Ars Technia: The Greatest Spirograph in the World. Really. Watch the videos.
NORAD’s Santa Tracker Began With A Typo And A Good Sport
A Trump Christmas Carol by Roz Kaveney, Laurie Penny, John Scalzi, & J0 Walton. Nicely done.
And the complete A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, annotated.