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Saying, "I released VOCP 10 years ago and each year as we get closer to the Christmas holidays I get overwhelmed with requests for it. The disc is out of print and I have no copies left so I've uploaded the files for all to enjoy," Dawn of Sound uploaded these early Christmas recordings to the Internet Audio Archive, which gave them an embeddable audio player as well as the usual download options.

Voices of Christmas Past Recorded 1898 to 1922 Remastered and Restored

1. Santa Claus Hides in the Phonograph (Ernest Hare, recorded 1922)
2. On A Christmas Morning (Prince's Orchestra, recorded 1911)
3. Sleigh Ride Party / Jingle Bells (Edison Male Quartette, recorded 1898)
4. Messiah - And the Glory of the Lord (Victor Mixed Chorus, recorded 1915)
5. Hark the Herald Angels Sing (Henry Burr, recorded 1907)
6. Silent Night, Hallowed Night (Haydn Quartet, recorded 1905)
7. Christmas Time at Pumpkin' Center (Cal Stewart, recorded 1905)
8. Christmas Hymns (Francis J. Lapitino, recorded 1917)
9. When the Christmas Chimes Are Ringing (Lewis James, recorded 1922)
10. The Star of Bethlehem (Harry MacDonough, recorded 1909)
11. Come and Spend Christmas With Me (Byron G. Harlan, recorded 1909)
12. Christmas Morning at Clancey's (Steve Porter, recorded 1922)
13. Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem (Trinity Choir, Recorded 1916)
14. Adeste Fideles (John McCormack and William Reitz, recorded 1915)
15. Night Before Christmas (Ernest Hare, recorded 1920)
16. Nutcracker Ballet: Chinese Dance/Dance of the Mirilitons (Victor Herbert's Orchestra, recorded 1913)
17. On A Good Old Time Sleigh Ride (Peerless Quartet, recorded 1913)
18. Angels from the Realms of Glory (Trinity Choir, recorded 1916)
19. While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night / Christians Awake (Trinity Quartet, recorded 1921)
20. Uncle Josh Plays Santa Claus (Cal Stewart, recorded 1907)
21. Christmas in Camp (Anonymous, recorded ca. 1917)
22. Noel (Holy Night) (Venetian Trio, recorded 1916)
23. Auld Lang Syne (Navada Van der Veer, recorded 1921)

It's a historical curiosity, certainly, beginning with -- wait for it -- "Is there a little man in the the radio?": Santa Claus Hides in the Phonograph. 1922. (New technology explaining it's not magic.)

I wasn't patient enough for the radio-theater intros to the next two and clicked through to the rousing Messiah - And the Glory of the Lord (Victor Mixed Chorus, recorded 1915)

Hark the Herald Angels Sing (Henry Burr, recorded 1907) is a classic tenor backed by a Salvation Army street corner band. Adeste Fideles (John McCormack and William Reitz, recorded 1915) is the one I remember from childhood.

The Nutcracker and Noel (Holy Night) selections are quite lovely.

When you're in the mood, they're fascinating museum artifacts. At that title link, the playlist offers them track by track.

What am I doing? Scientists extract images directly from brain. From Japan's Pink Tentacle:

Researchers from Japan's ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person's mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people's dreams while they sleep.

I'd like to wake up and view the movie trailer of my own dreams.

Nice photos there of Decorated trains in Japan. Subway-type trains, not Amtrak.

Think tweak: The 8th Annual Year in Ideas. N.Y. Times.

Welcome back to the Year in Ideas issue. For the eighth year in a row, we have compiled an alphabetical digest of ideas, from A to Z Start Reading (almost), that helped make the previous 12 months, for better or worse, what they were.

These are high-concept

Related: Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2008 is a good read for edge surfers, but I keep tripping over that word "semantic." I don't know what it means, because semantic already means other and very different things.

The dictionary doesn't know what it means:

1. Of or relating to meaning, especially meaning in language. 2. Of, relating to, or according to the science of semantics.

The Thesaurus:
Adj. 1. semantic - of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning; "semantic analysis"

Poets do it better: Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself by Wallace Stevens

Computers haven't grasped the concept of what's between the lines. Meaning eats its own tail.