| Most blatantly-shameless advertising tagline: A print ad for the revived and now strictly-legal Napster: "We'd give you the 1.5 million songs for free, but we all know what happened last time." | |
| Most vitriolic blog thread: Bill Quick raises some Pajamas Media-related questions, and the roof falls in. | |
| Worst political move: Michael Schiavo sets up a PAC to defeat politicians who tried to stop his effort to have his wife starved to death. | |
| Best political move: Boog Highberger, mayor of Lawrence, Kansas, proclaims International Dada Month. | |
| Best TV event: The National Basketball Association starts talking about Fight Club. | |
| Best justification of a sport: Stock-car driver Morgan Shepherd explains why the NBA dustup, supra, could never happen in his sport: "An NBA-style fracas could never happen in NASCAR, because our fans would never let go of a beer for any reason." | |
| Top-rated collector's item of 2005: Kohler's Purist® Hatbox™ toilet, which is almost too pretty to sit on. | |
| Most elusive Christmas present: An RSS-enabled toilet-paper dispenser. | |
Strangest photo of 2005:![]() One-time good Catholic girl and current New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd tries to appear semi-slutty. | |
| Least-popular name for baby girls, 2006: I'd bet on Katrina. | |
| Most-welcome sign of sanity on Usenet: America Online discontinues its NNTP servers; though AOL will provide access to third-party newsgroup providers, few AOL subscribers are expected to (be able to) do so. |
Posted 24 December 2005
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