Via SocyBerty - For some on New Year's Day, it's considered bad luck to wash the dishes or do laundry. For others, wearing new clothes brings good fortune, particularly red clothes. (Feel free to browse our red Old Guys Rule shirts if you like.) What New Year superstitions do you have? More here.

Via boing boing - In the spirit of holiday sweets that are probably invading your home or office, we share another treat - Cake Wrecks, a blog about cake decorations that go horribly, hysterically wrong. Good stuff. Have a great holiday.

Via BBC - Ted Howard, 82, composed nearly 100 letters to his wife, Molly, during the years he spent travelling Europe as a farm worker. When his wife caught someone reading them, she tore them up out of embarrassment. So Ted spent the last 15 years piecing 2,000 fragments back together. More here.

Via ackackack -- Take a look at the top 25 Sports Illustrated covers of the 1960s, as determined by the magazine's editors. It's a walk down memory lane.