First Bacardi ripped-off The Cacophony Society’s Breakers to Bay Salmon Run, then Absolut Vodka co-opted the Pillow Fight and now the latest underground event used as the theme of a television commercial is Santacon (Santarchy) with Motorola’s new “Santa Swarm” ad for their bluetooth headsets.

Thanks to Spacemonkey for the tip!

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Santacon Used As Theme For New Motorola TV Commercial

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Earlier today, Scott posted Fa La Freezing, by local pop group My First Earthquake, so I thought I’d share my favorite local seasonal music video. A Glummy Christmas, by Marrow’s Society for the Advancement of Despair, decks the hall with a collection of dreary Christmas songs. Album includes razor blade and rope, just in time for the Holidays!

See Previously: The Anti-Cheer: Marrow, The Society for the Advancement of Despair

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Society for the Advancement of Despair Presents: A Glummy Christmas

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You or someone you care about is probably boarding an airplane this holiday season, so arm yourself with the best flight tracking tools available before you head to the airport.

If you're at a computer (or have a schmancy phone with a Google search box readily available), just type the airline and flight number and hit the search button.

For a quick mobile lookup of when a flight's supposed to land while you're on the go, send a text message to either Google (466453) or 4INFO (44636) with the airline and flight number to get the status texted back to you immediately.

To see exactly where a plane in-flight is right now, check out a real-time flight tracker tool. For example, the Aeroseek tool (pictured) will give you an auto-updating map that shows you the plane's current location as it moves toward its destination.

These are just a few of dozens of ways to track flights online. What's your preferred method of making sure you get to the airport on time to pick up your loved ones? Post it up in the comments.

Load up your iTunes playlist with some holiday cheer but save a few bucks in the process with almost twenty classic holiday recordings are available as a free download from the Garritan music community.

The Garritan Community Christmas album includes tunes from Oh Holy Night to Auld Lang Syne. Even more interesting is how they were recorded:

A community of musicians from all over the world met on the Garritan community forum and agreed to submit their own recordings of holiday music, to be freely distributed. Each of these orchestral recordings were made not with large live orchestras in vast recording studios at huge expense, but rather were created by a single person working on their own desktop or laptop computer. What they have in common is the use of Garritan libraries representing software musical instruments based on samples of real instruments.

Preview the tunes on-site before you download, then grab the entire album (with art) to add to your collection for free.

“Fa La Freezing” is a catchy new Chanukah song by the San Francisco indie rock bank My First Earthquake. As it turns out, lead signer Rebecca Bortman works as a designer with our friends over at Mule Design Studio.

Our lead singer, Rebecca Bortman (hi there!), is known for breaking into a song from her 5th grade holiday concert whenever it gets a titbit nipply outside. It starts with “It’s ca-ca-ca-cold outside, I’m f-f-f-f-freezing…”

We decided to add some new parts, rock it up, synth it down, and here it is: our tribute to messed-up childhood holidays. Since Rebecca has the double-whammy of having a birthday two days before Christmas and being Jewish, she had a lot of ideas for lyrics to add to her childhood ditty.

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Fa La Freezing, A Chanukah Song by My First Earthquake

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Back in 2003 Triumph The Insult Comic Dog make a hilarious guest appearance doing the local news weather report on KHNL NBC Channel 8 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

via Jay Adelson on Twitter

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Triumph The Insult Comic Dog Local News Weather Report In Hawaii

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