The weather remained warm around here through the end of the year, but things got pretty cold as soon as the new year arrived. It's milder the last couple of days, but it was startlingly cold earlier this week, but I still knew something was wrong when I went downstairs a couple of mornings ago, and could practically see my breath. It turns out the back door had blown open during the night, as it hadn't been shut properly: It seems there is too much weather-stripping around it, which can make getting the latch to catch difficult. Counter-intuitively, this seems worse in the cold (isn't that supposed to make things shrink?), so I have a weekend project to try and address this, as I don't like to think about the cost of all the heat that wasted.

Cold Links:	Thanks Ant and Mike Martinez and Acleacius.
Play:	Super Mario Challenge. Skullhunter: players pack. Thanks Daniel. FIVE.
Links:	10 Old Toys That Made Sense In Their Era (And Nowhere Else).
Stories:	Tolkien Rejected For Nobel Prize Because Of 'Poor Storytelling'. X-37B spaceplane 'spying on China'.
Science:	Thick Martian dust makes NASA pick sunnier locale for Mars rover. Can dogs tell when we're talking to them?
Images:	Woman pees out of a moving San Francisco bus.
Media:	Fishing under ice. Thanks dakslf. Super Seinfeld Bros. Thanks reddit. Failed Proposal at a UCLA Game. Thanks Digg.