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Resource Shelf has some fascinating Cyber Monday statistics:

According to a Shop.org survey, conducted this weekend by BIGresearch, 72.0 million consumers plan to shop online from home or at work tomorrow, up from 60.7 million in 2006 and 59.0 million in 2005. The survey found that 31.9 percent of adults will shop on Cyber Monday, up 17.3 percent over last year (27.2%).See Also: Complete Stats (PDF)

According to the Shop.org/Shopzilla eHoliday Survey, 72.2 percent of online retailers are planning a special promotion for Cyber Monday, up from 42.7 percent just two years ago. Promotions will range from specific deals (29.9%) to one-day sales (28.9%) to free shipping on all purchases (24.7%).

Shop.org survey conducted by BIGresearch [this past weekend] found that 54.5 percent of office workers with Internet access, or 68.5 million people, will shop for holiday gifts from work, up substantially from 50.7 percent in 2006.

Oscar winning veteran actor Ernest Borgnine has not abandoned his craft.

He boasts one of the longest resumes in Hollywood, and well he should. At age 90, Ernest Borgnine hasn’t tired of working, and this month he adds another credit to the list.

In Hallmark Channel’s “A Grandpa for Christmas,” (premiering Saturday at 9 p.m.), the Academy Award winner plays Bert, an octogenarian who takes in the 9-year-old granddaughter he never met, after her mother - from whom Bert is estranged - is injured in a car accident.

“I had a ball,” he says. “I felt like going home and getting my Oscar and giving it to her…. She is good.”

“Sold down the road”

That Academy Award for best actor, which he won in 1956 for “Marty,” has led Borgnine to more screen and TV roles than he ever thought he’d get to play. The list of projects he’s worked on is staggering, as is the variety of talent he’s worked with. His overall wealth of experience goes back to the old Hollywood contract days, a time for which Borgnine doesn’t exactly pine.

The article continues. Here is a scene from “Marty.”

Irving Berlin’s song, “White Christmas,” sung originally in the 1942 movie “Holiday Inn” by Bing Crosby and Marjorie Reynolds, is the all-time best selling Christmas song.

In May 1940, Irving Berlin signed an exclusive contract for Paramount Pictures to write songs for a film musical based on his idea of an inn that opened only on public holidays. The song that would eventually become “White Christmas” was originally conceived by Berlin on the set of the film Top Hat in 1935. He allegedly hummed the melody to Astaire and the film’s director Mark Sandrich as a song possibility for a future Astaire-Ginger Rogers vehicle. Astaire loved the tune, but Sandrich passed on it. Berlin’s assignment for Paramount was to write a song about each of the major holidays of the year. He found that writing a song about Christmas was the most challenging. When Crosby first heard Berlin play “White Christmas” in 1941 at the first rehearsals, he did not immediately recognise its full potential. He just said “I don’t think we have any problems with that one, Irving.”