Check it out! I’m writing a Links of the Week post two weeks in a row! Yea!

Try watching this without recognizing some aspects of it in your favorite church/self-improvement group:

How to Start Your Own Mind-Control Cult

Broil your own pizza. These guys did it with Domino's dough and it made for some damn fine pizza. For the more adventurous types, you could make your own dough and really have a great meal!

Pizza Hack: Broil Your Own Pies

A great website about the daily routines of famous people (mostly writers). Very interesting to see how different people approach their workday:

Daily Routines

A great ad for the auto bailout:

The Big Three

More on Christmas: the most extensive treatment of the origins of today's Christmas symbols:

Origins of Christmas Traditions

Low-fat diets: all hype and no results:

Low-fat diets: not fit for purpose

Richard Dawkins (author of The God Delusion) interviews prominent magician and hypnotist, Derren Brown (you can see some of his best tricks and stunts here. My favorite is the video where he plays and beats 9 world-class chess players), about psychics and cold-reading. Absolutely excellent interview:

Richard Dawkins Interviews Derren Brown

That’s all I have for this week, kids. Just finished my last-minute online Christmas shopping, so I’ll just be sitting at the old hacienda listening to Grandpa’s old Christmas records while I drink white russians and watch the snow fall. May your holidays be as serene.