While you were frantically navigating through throngs of fellow Christmas-shopping procrastinators this weekend, the Internet kept on burning like a yule log miracle. Catch up on what happened: a magic homemade expanding table appeared, we mourned the loss of the Esurance mascot, and triangles proved that they were cool again.

GET JIGGLE WITH IT

At this point in human history, we should know that life likes to throw people curveballs, but there are some things that we know to just be true. One of these things is that the ground beneath us is solid. Well, Mother Earth is back to tear one of the only facts that we know as sacred away from us. Behold, jiggly land.

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SAVE UP THAT ENERGY, YOU'LL BE SITTING IN ONE SPOT FOR AWHILE

"Star Wars Galaxies" was once seen as the paragon of sandbox MMO gaming, providing a space for anyone to live out their weirdest intergalactic fantasies. All this came crashing down when a set of changes to the game massively simplified player options, eventually resulting in a complete shutdown of the "Star Wars Galaxies" universe. Now an emulator project is under way to resurrect the game, and nerds everywhere can't wait.

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A TRIFORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH

Geometry is indisputably the best math subject out there. What's not to love about playing with basic shapes (except for the numbers part)? In this classic 1966 animation, René Jodoin proves once again that shapes are cool. By transforming a single triangle hundreds of times, he illustrates the awesome power of the math of triangles without using any words or pesky numbers.

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…AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT BECKY TOLD US

People love to hate gossip. Everyone from Eleanor Roosevelt to your mother has told you that gossiping is a vicious habit that only boring people partake in. But some people believe that gossiping could be a good thing, and they might be right. Alana Massey writes that gossip means that someone cares about personal relationships and that it prevents unnecessary face-to-face critique. We're not sure which side to fall on, so read her full defense of gossip to make up your own mind.

[The Guardian]





WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING WITH YOUR FREE TIME?

Do it yourself projects can be fun, satisfying and useful. We're pretty sure not many do-it-yourselfers are as skilled as Scott Rumschlag, though. The DIY savant recently built his own expanding geometric table and revealed how he did it. He makes it look simple, but we're pretty positive that if we tried to build it we'd end up with our arms tied in a knot and more than a few nail wounds.

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HOPE THEY HAD AN INSURANCE POLICY ON HER

Erin Esurance was the popular female mascot for the Esurance company. She was a sassy secret agent with pink hair who fought bad guys in the name of her trusty insurance brand. She could beat anything that came her way … except for dudes on the Internet who made her into porn.

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In the news: Voters repealed marriage equality in Slovenia; an Air France flight was forced to land after a fake bomb was found on board; a landslide in China left over 50 people missing; at least 43 people were killed in Syria in series of Russian airstrikes; "Star Wars" broke a bunch of movie records this weekend; and the third Democratic debate was Saturday night.

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