Humanist Podcasts through December

New Humanist Advent Calendar Podcasts (link to list)

From Monday, 1 December 2008 to Wednesday, December 24th, these were posted up day by day. There's a short entry and an embedded player in the blog, or you can listen directly to the MP3 file. Each interview subject was asked to pick a scientist or philosopher or writer who they'd suggest be commemorated by an annual day, rather like Christmas, and also any invention through history they'd like for a Christmas present.
Advent Podcasts Day 1: Stephen Fry (post)
MP3: media.switchpod.com/ users/ newhumanistmagazine/ 01DecStephenFry.mp3

Advent Podcasts Day 2: PZ Myers (post)
MP3: media.switchpod.com/ users/ newhumanistmagazine/ 02DecPZMyers.mp3

Christmas and Nostalgia on YouTube

Several clips of one ad (sung by Ben Robinson). It's apparently a parody of a classic UK Christmas show. We aren't at all familiar with it here, though I recognise the tune from BriTV references to it, and many of the scenes they fly past. I'm informed one I scene don't know is the Falkirk Wheel (photos & some info at www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/ falkirk/ falkirkwheel/), a modern rotating boat wheel.

www.youtube.com/ watch?v=bVjWiT-zmvs
www.youtube.com/ watch?v=tLZBfU5H1yM — This one has the lyrics to the advertisement
www.youtube.com/ watch?v=GM5eMnj2Pkw
www.youtube.com/ watch?v=AbNoPiROsS8

John Lennon's Beautiful Boy, set to video filmed at Lennon's house at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island in April of 1980.
www.youtube.com/ watch?v=l_imwld_WzI&NR

Sarah's Sister — a Christmas story, written to make people cry
www.scalzi.com/ pastlives/ archives/ 2005/ 11/ sarahs_sister.html