Take a guess, and then watch the video to see if you’re right.

(Via Snopes.)

…with Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite,” performed entirely with assorted bicycle parts.

(Santa-hat tip to LGF.)

“Dear Editor, I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus…”

This 1897 letter to the New York Sun prompted the most reprinted editorial ever to run in any newspaper. You have certainly read it, probably many times.

But did you know that the original hand-written letter, kept in a scrapbook for 100 years, turned up on Antiques Road Show in 1997?

Tonight I just finished the very last level (there are 58 levels) of Weffriddles. Say, have I ever mentioned Weffriddles.com? I did? Just two days ago, you say? What day is it now? Friday? Yikes.

Sorry, it’s these darned riddles. They have a way of crowding everything else out of your brain and demanding to be solved. They make thinking about anything else somewhat difficult. I’m done with them now.

Phoebe warned me, “Don’t go to Weffriddles.com unless you have a couple of hours to spare.”

I should have listened. (But I did make it as far as clue 21 in only one hour.)

UPDATE: Phoebe is passing the blame, to Rosaline.

Wow. Did you know that the U.S. Geological Survey has a “Today in Earthquake History” Web page, that will instantly display all of the significant earthquakes which ever occurred on a particular date, with maps and everything? Well, now you know.