IT'S the festive season and there's tons and tons of stuff about Christmas on the web, from the sacred to the profane, from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Here are a few festive highlights:

Anyone believing Christmas is too commercialised can have their beliefs heartily reinforced at Christmas.com, which has everything from traditions to PlayStation 2s.

www.christmas.com/

Anyone wanting to find out about the true meaning of Christmas (ie that it was a Pagan fire festival based on the winter solstice which falls today, blessings be and all that) could do worse than checking out the links on Every Celtic Thing on the Web, as my favourite Celtic religion site (www.celtic-cauldron.com) seems to be down at the moment.

http://og-man.net/ethmyst.htm

Anyone interested in the folklore, ancient and modern, surrounding Christmas should check out the Urban Myths Christmas page, which has some great stuff on it.

www.snopes2.com/holidays/xmas/xmas.htm

Anyone who wants to find interesting things to do with the kids on the new PC you've got them for Christmas could try downloading some games or pictures from the holiday com site.

www.holidays.net/christmas/

Anyone who wants to know what local religious groups are up to this Christmas could do worse than check out CommuniGate.

www.communigate.co.uk/lancs/

Try something festive and local -- The Wyresdale Cristmas tune by William Knapp.

It's an online version of a tune for popular carol While Shepherds Watched, and has MP3 downloads, plus sheet music for the four parts of the song, and an advert for a concert. Unfortunately the concert has already happened, but the tune's still there.

www.your-own-time.co.uk/wyresdale

A very interactive Christmas and world-wide New Year to all our loyal Web World readers. Ho ho ho.