A Twisted Christmas is Twisted Sister's metal versions of holiday classics -- "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" and all that. Due Oct. 17, you can preview some of the tunes at the MySpace site of the band that officially broke up in 1987. (See, MySpace isn't just for kids!)

I heard the tune yesterday on the radio, making this the earliest in the fall I've ever heard a Christmas song. Halloween is only on my radar because of the candy display in the drugstore. The leaves on the trees haven't turned, tomatoes are still ripening, we just spent the weekend on our screened porch and we haven't hauled out our winter clothes yet. But Twisted Sister is dreaming of a white Christmas.

Here's background on the band, if you missed their earlier metal moments. YouTube has the videos, including one of guitarists Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda rehearsing "I'll Be Home For Christmas."

Road trip: Providence Geeks' monthly meet moves to Brown tonight, 5:30pm – 9:30pm+:

October’s Geek Dinner will be the first one that we take on the road. Brown’s Computer Science Department and the Brown Forum for Enterprise have graciously volunteered to host us at Brown’s CIT. (And no, we are not abandoning AS220 as our unofficial clubhouse.)

Brown CS Professor and Providence Geek, Shriram Krishnamurthi, and his team of researchers will be unveiling for the first time publicly their reactive programming language for the web -- Flapjax. You do not want to miss this.

Flame on: From NASA.

Am I good enough? How Not to Apply for a Job via NPR:

You're about to graduate from Yale. You want to be an investment banker. It is recommended not to put on your resume A.) a fake company to which you've appointed yourself CEO B.) a fake charity you claim to have founded or C.) a claim to have written a book, which you publish online, plagiarizing all its content. Oh, and don't make a video that is so laughably funny that the banks you apply to send it around the investment community as the most, idiotic, self-absorbed, cliche-ridden awful thing people have seen in weeks.
Aleskey Veyner took none of that advice. The video was released to the public on Ivygate, a blog that covers the Ivy League.

Time wasters: FWDitOn.com collects those forwarded emails of jokes and oddities we all get from friends, the ones with dozens of forwarded addresses before you get to the funny parts.

Post-Ms.: Christine Cupaiuolo, once Ms. Magazine's blogger, is on her own now with Our Bodies, Our Blog, devoted to women's health news.

Like weeds: Bloomin' Gardens: Deceptively simple-looking game really isn't.