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Celebrate the incoming weekend with cooking classes and unifying songs.
Prominent Prisoners: Liu Xiaobo isn’t the only political prisoner who deserves attention. Read about 15 people imprisoned around the world for their beliefs. (Foreign Policy)
Dot-Com Desserts: Forget celebrity chefs. Close those cookbooks. Here’s why YouTube is the best cooking class out there. (The Atlantic)
Stammering Shows: Colin Firth plays a stuttering monarch in The King’s Speech. Take a look back at other stuttering cinematic characters to see who gets it right. (Slate)
Come Together: A Colorado senator is gathering “get along” songs for Congress’ lame-duck session. What songs should he include? (The Week)
Friending Family: Should you accept your parents’ friend requests on Facebook? This handy chart tells you, basically, that you shouldn’t. (The Daily What)
Santa’s Screamers: He might be jolly old Saint Nick, but that doesn’t mean all children love Santa Claus. Take these pictures, for example. (LIFE)
Elsewhere on TIME.com: Look back at the best and worst of the year that was with the Top 10 of Everything for 2010.
Must See: After a person gets voted off a reality show, he or she insists that we’ll hear about them again. But we never really do. This America’s Next Top Model supercut demonstrates. (FourFour)
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