:: http://nowiknow.com/through-the-no-looking-glass/

:: The Nostalgic Machine, “Get your childhood jam on”

:: http://thenostalgiamachine.com/

:: Netflix faking the New Year’s Eve countdown for little kids Boo!

:: https://pr.netflix.com/WebClient/getNewsSummary.do?newsId=1801

:: “Outside of New Year’s Eve, One Time Square exists largely as a very expensive billboard.”

:: http://www.businessinsider.com/new-years-eve-ball-at-one-times-square-2014-12

:: When life handed this bride lemons, she painted them. Wait, that doesn’t make sense.

:: http://offbeatbride.com/2014/12/i-got-left-at-the-altar

:: Mark Mothersbaugh eyewear is now available at retailers

:: http://www.mothersbaugheyewear.com/retailers/

:: Emoti-cookies by Pudge Cakes (pictured above)

:: https://www.facebook.com/pudgecakes/

On New Year’s Eve in Spain, there is a tradition of eating a grape with each strike of the clock’s bell at midnight. It started in the late 1890s and by 1909 it was an established custom. Grape growers in the city of Alicante popularized it that December as a way to sell the excessive amount of fruit they had from a bountiful harvest. Now, in most any Spanish grocery store, you can conveniently buy a can or champagne flute filled with just 12 grapes.

Uh, if you choose to take on this tradition, you may want to brush up on your Heimlich Maneuver skills.

Doctor Popular: 3D photographer 

“This is KC. He’s one of those ‘Mission characters’ we often talk about. He spends his days near Mission and 18th, kicking cans and bottles into trashcans. He makes some amazing shots. I have lots of fun photos of KC, mid jump with a serious look on his face and a Gatorade bottle just inches from its target… but as these days get colder and the wind starts picking up, I don’t feel right sharing them. Instead, I’m drawn to this shot of KC sleeping in his makeshift bed in the Mission, just a block from where my wife and I live. It’s easy when we only see some of the folks in the city as lovable eccentrics who add personality to a neighborhood. It’s important, I think, to also realize that those folks don’t just stop existing when we aren’t there.” — Doc Pop