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According to Matthew Latkiewicz at Grub Street, I like my wine French, Letterpress or Pottery Barn Catalogue.

He says, “I have gone into the field and done some research. I wanted to know whether I could identify the types of labels I liked and which turned me off. I think I have identified seven major wine-label groupings along with several subclasses. I also tasted a bunch of wines according to their labels and have made wildly ill-advised extrapolations about what the label means for your drinking experience.”

Sloshed: Maybe We Should Be Judging Wines by Their Labels — Grub Street New York.

My holiday season has not exactly been filled with the warm scent of gingerbread and the harmonies of carolers this season. Mr Apparently has been working day and night, and I’ve purchased every gift via the Web. So you’ll forgive me if I’m feeling more humorous than warm-and-fuzzy this week. I hope at least one of these elicits a laugh. Especially if you’re at work!

These are my three favorite holiday amusements of this season. Feel free to link to your favorite in the comments!

1. Jon Stewart asks Stephen Colbert if he’d like to try a little Hanukkah.

2. The Story of the Nativity as Told Through Social Media

3. What Happens When You Try Too Hard to Make Christmas Meaningful (and You’re Six)

Hyperbole and a Half: The Year Kenny Loggins Ruined Christmas.

In just a few years, this won’t seem so weird. Or rather, this precise application will remain completely bizarre, but I’m sure we’ll have found some sort of good use(s) for peel-off fibers sprayed directly from a can…

Make Clothes Out of a Can With Spray-On Fabric | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.

More internet awesomeness: the Bacon Cheese Turtleburger. I don’t know if there’s anything more to say that these before-and-after photos don’t address.

Interwebs Randomness and Other Inspiring Tales: Super Bowl Bacon Cheese Turtleburger.

via Humerus, via Editorial License

I plugged several different Apparently entries into I Write Like and learned that I write like Mark Twain, Cory Doctorow, Stephen King, Vladimir Nabokov, Arthur C. Clarke and DFW. But David Foster Wallace and Cory Doctorow were the only ones who popped up more than once. After a few tries, I was able to predict which entries would generate which of those two authors.

Then I plugged in three  samples from a novel I was writing ten years ago, and I was told I write like James Joyce, H.P. Lovecraft and DFW.

My emails are apparently reminiscent of Douglas Adams, Cory Doctorow and Stephen King.

I think a bunch of sci-fi geeks coded this app.

Pentagram says I’m a courier type. I would have suspected myself to be a Perpetual Titling Light kind of person, myself, but self-identifying as progressive rather than traditional made all the difference.

How much do I love this? Personalize it for your own mom at cnnbc.com.