Template:Daily Favorites/January 3

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  My ancestors didn’t fight in the Enlightenment for nothing!

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  Evidence emerges that rogue mathematician and alleged time-traveller Anarchimedes is constructing a LEGO-powered doomsday weapon.

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  "Jupiter is a gas-giant dessert planet for whatever eats gas giant planets, and the red spot is like a cherry."
  —Alien Gourmand

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  Signed first edition of Autobiography of a Wogdon & Barton Flintlock Smoothbore Dueling Pistol purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a prominent Gnomon algorithm theorist" who is "living somewhere in the Greater Ely, Minnesota Co-Prosperity region."

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  Signed first edition of Golden Spiral unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence during otherwise routine annual steganographic examination.

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  There Once Were No Men Who Ate Prunes.

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  Julius Christ - poster.

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  Phoenix 1 declares "Out with the old — here I go!"

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  Wodka Disney on Ice (nonfiction) is a satirical re-imagining of Disney on Ice. Caution! Do not attempt at home on New Year's Eve, or at any other time!

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  My God, it's full of pants.

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  All right children, what did we learn from the Twentieth Century?
  
  "Never cover Bohemian Rhapsody."
  
  That's right. Never cover Bohemian Rhapsody.

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  Tardigrades Sing For Enya: an album of the music of Enya performed by tardigrades.

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  Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule by Anonymous. (See "What book did we least expect for Christmas?".)

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  The CDC's Director of Public Relations insists that the annexation by Atlanta in 2018 "had nothing to do with giant wicker men filled with sacrificial victims awaiting their prolonged and agonizing death by unholy conflagration." A subsequent analysis of CDC's medical waste stream will confirm the Director's statements.

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  "Dear Diary, So glad I stole the Death Star and repurposed it as a self-sustaining eldercare retirement facility near a temperate planet with about ninety-percent Earth gravity. Life is good."

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  Children around the world receive gift certificates from Cretaceous Office Supplies thanks to Phanerozoics Anonymous, an unlicensed but charitable and widely respected transdimensional corporation.

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  What are those which all of the other reindeer wouldn't let poor Rudolph join in any of?.

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  "Santa Santa Claus" by Howard Ashby Kranz.

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  The Andromeda Galaxy robbery (also known as the Great Andromeda Galaxy robbery) was a coordinated attack upon the Andromeda Galaxy. The robbery was committed by parties as yet unidentified (December 2020) using hijacked laser guide stars.

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  Signed first edition of Traveller used in otherwise routine high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence.

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  "Color Tools" declared Photograph of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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  Frondo Ediacar is the stage name of paleontologist and musician [REDACTED]. Ediacar is known for his elaborate stage productions, including hermetically sealed performance spaces which replicate environmental conditions of the pre-Cambrian era.

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  Spiral Rings 2 declared Picture of the Day by the mayor of New Minneapolis, Canada on behalf of the city and province of New Minneapolis, and in celebration of the Winter Solstice.

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  Unexpected Moscow Visitor unexpectedly visits Moscow.