Just in time for Santa’s big night, the Gear Diary team has gotten together and shared our favorite Holiday Music Favorites.  Just so we don’t leave anyone out, this is for all winter holidays the team celebrates, which includes Hanukkah.

The list is after the jump!

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Been running VLC version 0.9.4 since I installed Kubuntu 8.10, and today I discovered a cool treat.  The developers included an Easter egg based on the date; as of December 19th, your VLC icon will now be adorned with a Santa Hat!  Check it out!

For those who don’t know what VLC is, it’s a awesome media player that started out on Linux, but has since branched out to include Windows and Mac OS X.  If you have a video, and the video players you have won’t play it, odds are that VLC will.  Check it out, and Merry Christmas!

Those of you that know me well, know that I have an insatiable thirst for Diet Coke; I generally buy it in cans, and I go through quite a few of them…to put it mildly. My solution has been to recycle, but some enterprising folks have come up with a better and creative option: turn those loose cans into the mother of all redneck Christmas trees.

While I don’t think that I will be creating one of my own this year (or likely ever), I thought it would be fun to show you the Mountain Dew Christmas tree that I discovered on Make…

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While I was waiting in line at Target on Black Friday, one of the groups handing our free coffee and hot chocolate was the folks from MerryMob.com.

Merry Mob is a local group of flash mobbers made up of members of the Columbus community.  How it works is they get a text message or e-mail that tells them what, when and where about the next merry event.  It also tells them what they should bring.  Like for example, they need to bring paper cups or something to that effect.  Then on the day of the event, they gather and then they do their nice thing and then leave.  Just like a flash mob, but with a purpose.

The best thing is, sometime this season, they will do something truly wonderful for a local family and change their life!  Maybe it’s fixing their house up or making sure a family has a Merry Christmas.  It’s a wonderful idea and something I really could get behind.