You can read about the Origin of Agnostica by the stately King Luca, or follow King Luca's progress as he explains the Traditions and Decorations associated with Agnostica. Or, you might enjoy a typical Agnostica Party. Finally, you can read a heartwarming Agnostica story, entitled, "Danny's First Annual Agnostica Miracle", which is one of nine stories by some of the internet's most popular cartoonists in the Plan 9 Christmas 2000 Annual (I will likely post that story here in the near future since Plan 9 doesn't seem to list it on their pages anymore despite not having anywhere near sold out as far as I've heard).

Also, Melannen was kind enough to compile all the Agnostica information she could find into one page. It's now a bit out of date, though.

Happy Agnostica 2016! This is the FOURTHIRTWELTH anniversary of the Global Random Bag of Fun! How do you participate? Simple. Just send a cool, groovy, hopefully educational unwrapped gift to: RANDOM BAG OF FUN (The global R.B.O.F. was discontinued after 2016 due to a drop in participation and therefore the mailing address has been removed). Do this before December 21 and it will be added to the Bag. You will then in late December or early January receive one random selection from the Bag! Send it in as early as possible, as I will send out two waves of gifts: One for contributions received before December 21 and one after. What kind of gift, you may ask? It should be: about $15-$25 non-perishable (no food, drinks, pets, etc.) something you might like yourself accompanied by your name and address (see IMPORTANT notice below) accompanied by an optional $3-$5 if you wish to offset my shipping costs Optionally, the exceedingly lazy among you can also receive a gift from the Random Bag with a $25 donation via PAYPAL to: (Paypal address also removed) Paypal cash (or from your bank account) is preferred over credit card donations, so that all of your donation will go towards better gifts for the bag and not to Paypal fees. I'll go shopping for you and find nifty gifts myself to add to the bag. All money received will go towards buying items for the bag. None ends up in my pocket. IMPORTANT: If you send me something directly from an online company like Amazon.com, BE SURE YOUR ADDRESS IS INCLUDED IN THE SHIPMENT!!! Amazon.com does not include your return address in its shipments. I cannot stress this enough. You can add your name/address to a "Gift message" at places like Amazon. In years past, people have sent presents for the bag directly from Amazon and other places and I've not known who to send a return gift to. DO NOT EMAIL ME YOUR ADDRESS INSTEAD! It's too complicated to coordinate and never works.

Happy Agnostica 2015! I have no evidence of anything unique about this year whatsoever. The only year like that.

Happy Agnostica 2014! This was the year I officially lost track of how many global random bags we've done. I called it eleven, but somehow the math didn't quite work right.

Happy Agnostica 2013! Thanks to a very generous donation from Jasmine Strong last year, all shipping charges were covered this year!

Happy Agnostica 2011! As usual, I coodinated a Global Random Bag of Fun with a small change over previous years. Because of increased gift-participation (and decreasing cash-participation), I asked everyone who sent in a gift to also include $3-$5 to help pay for shipping costs depending on their personal financial situation (either cash/check with the gift or separately through Paypal). [WAIVED IN 2013!] In the past couple years, I've had to pony up about $50-$100 in shipping costs myself. Note that this payment was optional and if it's a bit too much to swing along with the gift, please don't let that stop you from participating. Just send in your gift anyway. Any excess money will be used to make the cash-participants' gifts even cooler. International participants without Paypal shouldn't worry too much about it either. Unless your currency is awesome.

Happy Agnostica 2009! Still nothing new this year, unless you count the current Nukees storyline. But as always, you can participate in the RANDOM BAG OF FUN, now in its SIXTH YEAR!! That's right, I've been doing it longer than most webcomics have even lasted. Participation is the same as years past, with a few differences: [Instructions moved up to current year's update]

Happy Agnostica 2008! There was absolutely nothing new added in 2008. But we celebrated all the old traditions as normal. Otherwise, they wouldn't be very good traditions, would they?

Happy Agnostica 2007! In 2007, I added this animation (based on the Nukees comic from this year's QM Day) detailing schematically how you can make your own construction-paper atomic orbitals. I hope in the future to create a more organized list of Agnostica decorations. Of course, these are stylized orbitals. To make real orbitals, you would probably be better off just crumpling up the paper, setting fire to it, then not observing it.

Happy Agnostica 2007! In 2005, there were no new changes to the Agnostica website. We continued that trend in 2006, which I suppose made it officially a tradition. The establishment of an Agnostica tradition, then, was a signficant change. Chew on that paradox for a while.

Agnostica news (2004) (12/21/2004) Ian McDonald asked an important question in The Rothland Tribune (sorry, it's no longer there), to which I answered, Yes, Ian, there is a Christmas!