CHip: As much as I loathed the whole singing-by-the-frozen-meats thing, I miss it as well. Quitting smoking on New Year's, hopefully to have a halfway decent voice again in a year or so. I never intended to go pro, but I miss it desperately as a pastime.
When I used to sing, we did a ton of lousy holiday gigs (we're talking singing in supermarkets here, although one year we did get flown in to a gorgeous resort, and put up in their executive guest house, to provide their entertainment), and our repertoire included some nice Christmas songs that weren't too cheesy (along with, unfortunately, the cheesy ones). I'm still fond of "I Saw Three Ships", and another one we did as a round that I've unfortunately forgotten the name of.
On an entirely unrelated topic, the "Bad Food" link in Particles made me think of James Lileks' Gallery of Regrettable Food, which is just painful and hilarious at the same time.
Jordin: the spiritual accounting thing creeped me right out too. "I knew ye in the womb; and I entered ye as a credit to account 010101, making sure to enter a corresponding liability to account 1010101."
Teresa: That "Festive Arthropods" link is simply the best thing I've seen all year - but I do agree with Jordin that the proper label is "Sandy Claws". Or maybe "And they call him Sandy Claws".
Font size and leading look fine to me, but I'd like to chime in and say that 'the F11 thing' is pretty darn annoying.
There's a nifty CSS trick you can do (although I don't know off the top of my head how to do it) where you have two style sheets - a 'larger' one and a 'regular' one, and you can put links at the top of the page to switch between them, which might work for people who want to see the site in a larger font.
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