It’s a little sad to put the menorahs back in the cupboard after so much warmth and light, but here’s something to keep a bit o’ Chanukah in your life all year long: The Menorah Fractal Desktop Wallpaper. Download it for free at waterfire.us.

In spite of their proliferation on dorm walls, fractals aren’t just pretty pictures favored by people who frequent head shops — they’re visual representations of “iterative calculations” developed by mathemetician (and Polish Jewish immigrant) Benoit Mandelbrot in the 1970’s. Dig it.

As for your non-mathematical theory chanukiahs, here’s a few tips for cleaning (The Yenta’s a big believer in freezing them overnight — the wax chips right off.)