| Most blatantly-shameless advertising tagline: The Australian Tourist Commission's blunt question: "So where the bloody hell are you?" | |
| Most vitriolic blog thread: Too many to count. | |
| Worst political move: House Speaker-in-waiting Nancy Pelosi snubs California's sharp Jane Harman for chair of the House Intelligence Committee in favor of ethically-challenged Alcee Hastings, in what is widely viewed as a sop to the Congressional Black Caucus, and then dumps Hastings in favor of an ill-informed political hack. | |
| Best political move: Joe Lieberman, having lost the Democratic nomination for his Senate seat, easily wins as an Independent. | |
| Best TV event: Fox cancels O. J. Simpson's "If I Did It" special and abandons plans to publish his book. | |
| Best automotive remark: John Phillips III in the June Car and Driver, on the $350,000 Rolls-Royce: "Nobody needs this car. It's like having the adult-movie concession at the Vatican amusing but not hugely practical." | |
| Worst automotive remark: IRL driver Ed Carpenter, on fellow IRL driver Danica Patrick: "Danica's pretty aggressive in our cars ... especially if you catch her at the right time of the month." | |
| Top-rated collector's item of 2006: A laptop battery that doesn't explode. | |
| Most elusive Christmas present: Dick in a Box. (Needed: a home Dick-in-a-Box kit.) | |
| Strangest photo of 2006: Dakota Fanning goes on Oprah to plug Charlotte's Web; some of us wonder if perhaps twelve-year-old girls should not have legs to die for.
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| Best album title of the year: Yo La Tengo's I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass. | |
| Best new magazine feature of the year: Car and Driver's new reader-question section, "Franz Kafka's Garage." | |
| Most-welcome sign of sanity on Usenet: Cox actually figures out that people don't want incomplete binaries. |
Posted 25 December 2006
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