Christmas is over, so you know what that means. It’s time to grab a dead Christmas tree and join the Friends of the Rootless Forest for Danger Ranger’s Annual Post-Yule Pyre this Saturday, January 5th. Here are my photos from last year.

An annual San Francisco tradition occurs at this time of the year, when the last stand of sidewalk fir trees is logged by the Friends of the Rootless Forest and then piled up on the beach for some very rapid composting. Saturday, January 5th, meet at the Carousel Diner, 2750 Sloat Blvd at 7:00 PM. Look for the giant Doghead in the middle of the street. We’ll hang out for half an hour and then head west, using caution, stealth and tom-foolery to avoid the white tiger that prowls the Great Highway. Bring a christmas tree and libations. No glass containers on the beach, you assume the risk, no one is in charge, your mileage may very. And for those who are infused with gift-giving guilt and holiday cheer, carbon credits can be purchased to offset the footprint of our dedication to christmas consumption.

Our friends at Cyclecide Bike Rodeo are having a big New Year’s Eve Show at the Ace Auto junkyard in San Francisco, with bikes, bands and beer. Here’s more info:

WHAT: Cyclecide Bike Rodeo’s FREE New Year’s Eve party!

WHERE: the Drunkyard (Ace Auto), 2255 McKinnon near Bayshore, SFCA

WHEN: 8pm - 2 or 3am. (First band goes on at 8:30 sharp.)

WHO: Five freakin’ bands playing, your broke-ass friends and family, and all yr favorite drunk Bike Rodeo klowns. No rides, just bands and good cheer.

WHY: Because everybody knows New Year’s Eve is always an overpriced, disappointing bore. Unless you’re surrounded by bike parts and fire barrels in the ghetto, drinking Pabst and cheap cocktails with all your favorite dirtbags.

HOW MUCH: Free, duh! But please buy drinks, because we need to pay rent on the clubhouse and recoup expenses from our last tour. Donations from teetotalers welcome also. $2 beers; $3 cocktails.

AND DON’T FORGET: Dress warmly and wear comfortable shoes. You will be climbing around outside like an idiot while all the other rubes in town put on loafers and high-heeled stilts to jam themselves into techno-infested hellholes of insanity. There will be heat and fire sources, trust us.

Featuring (in order of first to last):

DJ Big Daddy

The Thripps

Tiger Honeypot

Trainwreck Riders

Whores of War

Hammer Horror Classics

Why pay exorbitant door charges on the last night of the year just to watch amateur drunks at expensive clubs … when you can save enough money to afford to join the professional drunks at Ace Junkyard!

Non-valet bike parking provided by yourself inside the junkyard. Bring a lock. Taxi company HQ across the street, but we can’t promise anything there.

With prices like this, you can’t afford NOT to party with Cyclecide on New Year’s Eve!

“The Death & Life of Ice Cream” is a beautiful series of time-lapse videos by MindPie showing the tragic endings of various types of ice cream.

See Also: Chocolade Haas, A Series of Melting Chocolate Bunnies

via Milk and Cookies

Insanely Great Tees recently came out with a great Apple Timeline t-shirt celebrating 30 years of Apple. I also really dig their Camera Icons t-shirt.

Brighton, UK based animator Cyriak Harris creates some truly bizarre and surreal animation. Here’s an animation mix featuring of some of his work.

Also make sure to check out his fantastic music video Moo!

via WFMU

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WordPress 2.3.2 is an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. 2.3.2 also suppresses some error messages that can give away information about your database table structure and limits and stops some information leaks in the XML-RPC and APP implementations.

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Thanks to everyone who came out to our Last Minute Unholiday Party last night. From all counts our little experiment was a huge success.

Here are some photos that Lori shot with her brand new Canon Digital Rebel XTi.

A special thanks to Chris Messina and Tara Hunt for inviting us to have our event at Citizen Space and being such awesome hosts.

Oh and thanks to Violet for helping convince me to organize a party in 24 hours.

More photos from Violet Blue, Lane Hartwell, Mitch Aidelbaum, Veronica Belmont, Danger Ranger and mlis.

During the party a beautiful two page comic was created exquisite corpse style with a different artist adding each new panel. I have the original art which I’ll scan and post.