For Wednesday, we often post spooky links, but the nation's COVID stats are scary enough these days. 

In chirpier news, Google is celebrating the many, many December holidays in their Doodles. (I've been agitating recently for a generic "winter lights" holiday season for December and January.)

Something random: George Rhoads makes "ball sculpture" kinetic pieces, many of which are located in shopping centers and parks. A Reddit user posted this as a nostalgia piece for one of our local malls (Forest Fair, for the Cincinnatians in the reading audience!).