======================================================= Buy your gifts for the holiday season at Amazon and help BBspot out at the same time! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/bbspot-20 ======================================================= NEW STUFF Features: The story that cause all the trouble this week... http://www.bbspot.com/News/2009/12/tiger-woods-electronic-arts.html Top 11 signs you bought the wrong gift... http://www.bbspot.com/News/2009/12/top-11-wrong-gift.html The mailbag where Electronic Arts doesn't like one of my stories... http://www.bbspot.com/News/2009/12/mailbag-20091216.html Twelve days of BBelievers, a BBspot Christmas carol... http://www.bbspot.com/News/2009/12/twelve-days-of-bbelievers.html This week I take a look at the latest film from Monty Python alum Terry Gilliam: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.... http://www.bbspot.com/News/2009/12/review-imaginarium-dr-parnassus.html BBlooper The movie version... http://www.bbspot.com/News/BBloopers/2009/12/3934.php Can't touch this... http://www.bbspot.com/News/BBloopers/2009/12/3935.php Wrong holiday... http://www.bbspot.com/News/BBloopers/2009/12/3936.php ------------------------------ SITE NEWS - This will probably be the last BBspot Update for the next few weeks. Enjoy your holiday celebrations, and have a safe and geeky new year. - Find out what's happening on the site and around my life in this week's BBlog... (http://www.bbspot.com/Log/) - Thank you for all your generous support so far... (http://www.bbspot.com/store/subscribe.html) - Vote in this week's poll: Winter Break? (http://www.bbspot.com/polls/) Find out what your favorite Nobel Prize is... (http://www.bbspot.com/polls/2009/18-December-2009.html) - Not enough BB for you on BBspot? Follow me on Twitter... (http://www.twitter.com/briggsb) - Still don't have your signed copy of The BBook of Geek? And you call yourself a geek... (http://www.bbspot.com/store/bbook-store.html) - Be my friend on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/Brian.Briggs) ------------------------------ QUOTE OF THE WEEK The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. -Laurence J. Peter ------------------------------ LINKS OF THE WEEK Here are my favorite 5 links from the BBspot Daily Spot section (updated M-F) in case you missed them during the week. All the links during the week can be found here: http://www.bbspot.com/archives_links.html The longest and best review of the prequels that you will ever see... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI Baffling action figures... http://www.cracked.com/article/236_the-10-most-baffling-action-figure-accessories-all-time/ The complete Cosmos series on Hulu... http://www.hulu.com/search?query=Cosmos&st=0 What were they thinking... http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=10506 A Christmas Story goes reality... http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2009/12/08/20091208tongue-pole-ON.html ------------------------------ Do not reply to this e-mail. If you have any questions please direct them to briggsb@xxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to the list use the following link: mailto:bbspot-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe To unsubscribe at any time to the list use the following link: mailto:bbspot-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe OR Use the convenient form on http://www.bbspot.com OR If you have problems with any of these methods, please e-mail me at briggsb@xxxxxxxxxx Brian Briggs Stay Geeky! http://www.bbspot.com http://www.thebbookofgeek.com
