PNC calculates the Christmas Price Index each year as a fun, lighthearted way to look at the increasing cost of goods and services in the song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas."

This holiday season, "true loves" would pay more for all 364 items than ever before -- $75,122, up from $72,608 in 2005. This 3.5 percent increase is substantially less than last year's 9.5 percent increase.

Areas of their site:

• 2006 Christmas Price Index Q&A
• Broadcast Quality B-roll Footage
• Press Release
• Downloads
• Materials for Educators

• Skill in Arithmetic
• Plane Geometry
• Skill in Algebra
• Trigonometry
• Precalculus
• An Approach to Calculus
• The Evolution of the Real Numbers

http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1384_leonardo

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has created a website to accompany the Leonardo da Vinci exhibit. If you're not going to be in London before the exhibit closes, on 7 January, consider visiting virtually.

The site offers:

• Exhibition Themes
          The Mind's Eye
          The Lesser and Greater Worlds
          Making Things
          Force
• Exhibition Plan
• Leonardo's Life
• Leonardo's Notebooks
• Animated Illustrations
• Forster Codices
• Canal Challenge
• Competition
• Send An E-Card
• Events
• Shop