I will be in New York for the next couple days so there will be a dearth of updates. Batten down the hatches!

Just wanted to wish everyone and merry Christmas and a happy holiday. Thanks for reading!

My beloved Political Action Committee Name Generator project at work rounded out a successful weekend and became the most trafficked project Sunlight has ever had…so far. Here is a roundup of the media outlets that have covered it…so far:

• The Washington Post: Ezra Klein
• Mother Jones (my favorite write-up)
• NPR: It’s All Politics
• BoingBoing (most traffic)
• The Columbia Journalism Review
• The Monkey Cage
• GOOD Magazine
• DCist
• The Open Secrets’ Blog
• The People for the American Way Blog (most irony)

The project also garnered some nice attention on social networks. Here are a few selections from Twitter:

• Generate another!? No thanks, @sunfoundation, this will do just fine. http://twitpic.com/3c8hjk http://bit.ly/g8LXBZ – via Brian Boyer
• Would you give money to a PAC called Fighters for Bringing Back Arrested Development? @SunFoundation‘s name generator: http://bit.ly/hTJF6g – via Meghan Gordon
• More @SunFoundation brilliance: PAC Name Generator http://goo.gl/o6OK1 – via Yahel Carmon
• Playing with the @sunfoundation‘s PAC Generator http://t.co/8Hgs8TW I swear I just generated “Coalition for Delicious Sandwiches” – via D. Archibald Smart
• My faves “Rebel Alliance for Employment” & “Thundercats for Power PACs.” Get yours: Sunlight Foundation’s PAC Generator http://t.co/nhXjrru – via Susan Whelan
• Nerdcrush on the Sunlight Foundation. http://tinyurl.com/37m694x – via Danielle Kurtzleben
• Sunlight Foundation: disagree with a lot of what they do, but the PAC Name Generator is awesome http://tinyurl.com/37m694x – via Sean Parnell (obvious personal favorite)

In lieu of new photos over the past few days, I’ve expanded my Month in Review category to include January of 2009 and December of 2008. In returning to my archives I found a few old personal favorites that I had forgotten:

I will be back on Monday the 27th.

I’ve just returned from an amazing trip to the great state of Minnesota and the next week or so will be photos from that experience, most from the impressively busy and exciting state fair.

I’m off to Minnesota to see old friends and enjoy their lovely state fair. I hopefully will return with a collection of new photos of fried foods and other fairground wonders. In the meantime, I’ve added my Month in Review posts for the panorama-filled March of 2009 and the octuplet-filled February of 2009.