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It was an impossibly awful weekend but this morning I just wanted to dig out of my cold, snowy hole and get on with things. It didn’t seem like that would happen but somehow I made it to the office without incident. Unlike many of my fellow commuters:

They were among 159 crashes that the State Patrol responded to between 5 a.m. and 10 a.m. today in the Twin Cities. The Patrol also reported 32 stalled vehicles and 34 vehicles that went off the roads, said Lt. Mark Peterson.

Youch. And there’s another storm on the way tonight.

My attention span has been particularly short lately (as evidenced by the fact I started drafting this last night) so here’s another list of random things that caught my fancy:

• Neil Gaiman, on having a nice Jewish Christmas: Hanukkah with Bells On
• I have a crush on the steampunk art of Myke Amend and also this eerie short film: Phantom Limbs
• Japanese Road Trip in Transforming Toyota Truck - “After graduating high school, three Japanese buddies decided to follow their dream of a year-long cross-country road trip, from the northeastern island of Hokkaido to the southwestern one of Yakushima. But before they set out, the trio built one of the coolest road trip cars ever conceived, from a decrepit mid-80s Toyota Toyoace.”
• Fun write up about Felicia Day and The Guild. Yes, I am a fangirl.
• Interesting article about flight attendants in the Gulf: Some Arab Women Find Freedom in the Skies
• In the realm of the political: “Brawling South Korean politicians tried to sledgehammer their way into a parliamentary meeting room barricaded by the ruling party as the National Assembly descended into chaos on Thursday over a free-trade agreement with the United States.” Yowza. And bonus: Blago a Huge Nixon Groupie.

And now back to finishing up some work and fiddling with my new-fangled iPhone.