Once again we’ve dusted off this post from 2005.  Almost getting to be a tradition.

Apparently it is now politically correct to refer to Christmas and New Year as The Holiday Season. To not offend who? Whom? Christians must be a tad miffed.

Wishing You All good thoughts and good wishes come true.

Either 25 bucks or thousands of dollars.  Hmm, lemme see.

December 22 marks the 128^th anniversary of Edward Hibberd Johnson’s patented invention of the first electrically-illuminated Christmas tree.  Like the Christmas tree light invention, many inventors file a patent to protect their invention.  However, “Filing a Patent is a waste of money,” says Patented Inventor John D. Smith, author of the new DON’T File a Patent! (Smith Press, 200 pages, $24.95) “Inventors foolishly file for patents thinking they are buying “protection” against copycats,” says Mr. Smith.  “However, a patent doesn’t prevent copycats.  There is no Patent 911 to call, nor does the US Patent & Trademark Office send out the Patent Police to arrest the copycat.  A Patent is really just an expensive and worthless piece of paper.

don\’t file a patent?

The following has been known for some time but like the levitating ring, Science today has no explanation.

Most every dad knows or at least hopes his child is smarter than him.  Mine is smarter than me.  His will be the same.

This is a Japanese ad that speaks in every language.

A name currently being bandied about on our forum is Terrence McKenna.

He has taken the 64 vectors of the I Ching

and has created a time line that apparently stretches from zero time to the present and in 2012 reverts back to time line zero.