Welcome to the 13th edition of The Three Things by  Michael Schechter, Howie Goldfarb, and me!

Two days until Christmas. How many of you will be at the mall tomorrow? Thankfully, I will not see you there. I am finished.

Before I give you this week’s links, everyone wish a very happy birthday to my dad! Growing up, I thought it would suck to have your birthday this close to Christmas and then I met my mother-in-law, who was born on Christmas Day.

For those of you new to this series, The Three Things arrives in your inbox on Sunday mornings (unless you don’t suscribe, but that can easily be fixed if you hurry over and enter your email address or add to your RSS feed) so you have some extra time to spend perusing the obscure content we’ve curated for you (and one another) before your week begins and deadlines, meetings, and work takes over.

Enjoy! (more…)