Thursday Godbytes: Google holiday treats; 3D printed dreidels; Vader Did You Know?

Google is getting getting into the holiday spirit. If you go to google.com right now and search for the phrase “let it snow,” you’ll get a wintery surprise. The same is true if you search for “Hanukkah,” although with fewer snow flakes. (For more Google fun, search for “tilt” or “do a barel roll”) Despite […]

Google is getting getting into the holiday spirit. If you go to google.com right now and search for the phrase “let it snow,” you’ll get a wintery surprise. The same is true if you search for “Hanukkah,” although with fewer snow flakes. (For more Google fun, search for “tilt” or “do a barel roll”)

Despite the fun, a few folks are miffed at Google for not doing one its trademark holiday “doodles” for Hannukkah:


As long as we’re talking about geekiness and Judaism, all you kids with 3D printers (yes, those exist, and no, you probably can’t afford one) can now 3D print your very own Dreidel! It’s the future, kids.

Some of you might have caught Saturday Night Live‘s spoof on Tim Tebow this weekend. Lots of folks found it funny, but conservative Christian TV personality Pat Robertson was none to pleased.

GOOD magazine has your weekly dose of religious inforgraphic-ness, this time with pretty pictures and fancy data about the state of Muslims in America.

Finally, your Video of the Day is a new, more sci-fi-ish take on the Christmas hymn “Mary Did You Know?” Wait, or was this video uploaded a long time ago, made in an editing studio far, far away….

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