This Week in Awesome (12/18/10)

It was a pretty good week for internet stuff. Some of it's holiday-themed, some of it isn't...

Defaced is a site that collects instances of prankage that probably wouldn't seem funny if they weren't clever. (Thrillist via Racked)

Here's the undisputed winner of the "creepiest Christmas sweater" contest. (Etsy via The Hairpin)

A couple of good clips from Funny or Die this week: first, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly channel David Bowie and Bing Crosby in a version of their famous Christmas duet that's equal parts homage and spoof.

Then Christina Applegate and friends demonstrate the fitness value of pole dancing for a certain subset of the population.

Finally, the Museum of the City of New York posted a trove of vintage photographs online. (Racked)

Not wanting to disrespect our own fair city, I looked for similar collections. I know Universal Hub has linked to various online archives in the past, but searching the site didn't yield what I was trying to find. A google search turned up this collection of links via BU; it includes links to the Boston Historical Society and the Boston Public Library's Flickr stream, among many others, so that should at least get us started.