Happy post-Christmas, people. Hope you’re all making it through your hangovers, returning gifts, hitting the sales, or sitting at work with a heart full of post-holiday relief. I wonder what the internets did to celebrate the day chosen by a panel of men hundreds of years ago in order to make nice with the pagans? Let’s have a look!

Project: Baby did one of their patented “drag the bed out in the forest and pretend we’re in a Paula Cole video” photoshoots:

…and then shared some story about a flesh present:

The first and most incredible Christmas gift came wrapped in human flesh and placed in a manger. 33 years later the gift was opened on the cross, that we could be wrapped in divine love, grace, mercy and hope. The gift of eternal life for all who believe.

KERF was busy flying to the top secret vacation destination she’s been hinting about for months. If anyone cares, that highly hush hush location turned out to be Kokomo, though it looks like even on vacation she doesn’t let loose her grip on her husband’s limes:

That “Miss James” chick from Bleubird Vintage transformed the living room of her home into FAO Schwarz, piling up enough crap for an orphanage for her 3 hipster offspring:

“The home of creative living”, PoopoBrit.com, maintained its record of “no seriously, WTF?” by introducing us to Lasagna Christmas Cookies:

Keep it up, Brit! Your site has replaced Jordan Reid for my daily dose of eyeroll.

So while we all pretend to be productive as we wait for New Year’s Eve, why not kill a little time by telling me what effery from your fave internets people got left out of this post.

Sarah Lacy, unemployed, has been spending her maternity leave quitting her job and taking pictures of herself in the bathtub with her baby, while refusing to talk about what her new project will be:

I am busy doing a lot of exciting things. The problem is, I can’t really talk about them because I don’t want to say what my next job is yet.

Too bad it’s already common knowledge that fellow windbag Michael Arrington is using money from his venture capital fund CrunchFund to create a “new tech news site”. Yes that’s right: Sarah’s BFF sold TechCrunch and is using his new VC company to set her up with a new site that is basically TechCrunch.

The neverending Silicon Valley circle jerk continues.

Michael Arrington, the man responsible for trading a bag of money for TechCrunch, is a rich, white, middle aged man who enjoys tweeting at celebrities, protecting the earth, and fighting “evilness” on the intertubes. He is also an enormous blowhard who likes to tell people to shut up a lot.

The current target for Mike’s ire is all you whiney, unappreciative brats who are complaining about working:

Suddenly everyone’s complaining about how unfair things are in Silicon Valley. How hard everyone has to work so darn hard, and how some people don’t get venture capital or a nice sale to Facebook or Google even though lots of other people are getting those things…If you work at a startup and you think you’re working too hard and sacrificing too much, find a job somewhere else that will cater to your needs.

You plebes should stop whining and remember how VERY VERY IMPORTANT Silicon Valley is, and that your pathetic crybaby butt is lucky to be here!

You might be sad that you work long hours and that sometimes your boss yells at you when tensions run high. But you also know that there is nowhere on earth like Silicon Valley.

He then goes on to contemplate the armageddon that awaits if you sobbing coders don’t nut up and work 20 hour days LIKE A BOSS:

[N]ot too long from now people will be talking about maximum working hours, minimum numbers of engineers assigned to complete a given task. And, shudder, unionization of startup workers.

I really hope that doesn’t happen. If it does, all the really necessary people will just leave and do their thing somewhere else.

Work hard. Cry less. And realize you’re part of history.

Listen to the rich white man, kids: work will set you free! If you just stop whining and do your job you too can one day sell your mediocre drama farm/media property and retire, to spend your days posting screeds against those who still have to work for money. Sometimes at jobs they don’t really love, for long hours, for little ROI.

Sarah Lacy, of  “what recession?” fame, apparently follows Paul Carr and Michael Arrington out the door over at TechCrunch. Unsurprisingly, the only people who seem to care are TC commenters.

In her personal contribution to the too long, passive aggressive departure post library formerly known as TechCrunch, Sarah basically says she’s successful and important and doesn’t need all this drama:

I’ve bounced between a lot of jobs in the last few years– writing for BusinessWeek, hosting a show for Yahoo Finance, writing two books, and traveling the world to find great entrepreneurs– but TechCrunch was the first place in my career where I felt like I totally fit. It was a place I felt I could stay for a long time.

And then Mike sold the company. Things went better than I expected for the first year. And then this fall, all hole broke loose. You could produce a Lifetime movie of the week about the behind the scenes drama of the last few months. Publicly, I’ve stayed silent during much of it, but it has been every bit as gut wrenching for me as it’s been for my colleagues.

She goes on and on and sums up by saying she doesn’t “think this is the time or the place to talk about what I’m doing next, but the plan isn’t to be a stay-at-home-mom.” Since she doesn’t even understand why people would complain about losing jobs, it’s probably best that she packs her desk and scoots on to “something I’m really excited to do next” so that someone who actually wants a job can have it.

Sarah assures the 11 people who give a crap “Don’t worry, I’m not going far. More on what I’m doing next in a future post. Watch this space.”  She’ll probably be joining Paultatohead Carr over at his sure to be a hit startup. I can’t wait for the lulz that will come out of that  ego ranch of fail.

First we get an example of cookbook author Gluten Free Girl‘s baking methods:

I’m not what you would call “a person who cooks”, but I’m fairly certain that “it varies” and “stick in oven and keep checking until it seems done” makes for a pretty Crapty recipe. Shauna, there’s a reason people mock you and your cookbooks, and this is why.

Elsewhere Jessica Quirk, whose full-time What I Wore blog continues its slide into obscurity, posted this weirdly worded tweet:

Obviously she could be saying she has had a bad period of time spanning the last 24 hours. Taking into account Messica’s talents as a writer, we should probably not assume she’s complaining about a heavy flow or cramps.

And finally Tina, of Carrots N Cake fame, has finally scaled the summit of consumer perfection:

I don’t know what to say about this, other than it seems weird to call a sweater dress the ‘most important’ anything.

I should really stop checking twitter. The more I look around the more wtf I find.

Nick Denton, overlord of Gawker Media, doesn’t believe a short comment is a worthy comment. Most likely in an effort to stop people from commenting “+1” and “THIS”, if you post a comment under 35 characters other commenters will not be able to respond to your words of brilliance. Instead they see this:

I’m not sure what this is supposed to solve or prevent. Since people can still just post “+1000” and “@” the original commenter, I don’t think this new “feature” has done anything but further annoy Gawker readers who are already irritated with the continuing redesign glitches.

Frankly I think the actual story here is that people are apparently still reading Gawker.