With this "holiday" card, Fox is again on the wrong side of the "War On Christmas" it's so worried about. And apparently this is supposed to totally make up for smearing all those reporters:

It's official: We no longer trust Google with our privacy. [SFGate]

Private investigator Anthony Pellicano broke many laws covering up and smearing for clients like Tom Cruise, Chris Rock and Mike Ovitz. After a trial that became a media sensation, he's quietly heading to jail.

Consumerist's Biggest Business Debacles [AdAge]

The show features rich people lying to poor people and then giving them money, and it's now up on Hulu. All you need to see are the first 11 minutes. Watch Chahal give a tour of his $6.9 million nouveau gauche monstrosity of a penthouse, and fumble around trying to buy groceries. "Buying groceries, it's not that easy," he says. For Yahoo shareholders, watching him give away tiny portions of his fortune will be far too painful. As deserving as the recipients are, they'll wish Chahal was handing their money back to them.

Times are tight for Web startups: Catalina Girald couldn't afford to hire a model for her fashion site's lingerie collection. So she stripped down to her designer skivvies.

· Just as Mad Men star Jon Hamm was about to reveal if he'd ever fantasized about changing his name to Stewart Turkeylink, Zach Galifianakis's sneezing fit ruins everything. [via Goldenfiddle]

Freshly laid off? Things could be worse — like, for example, if you were working as a temporary employee at an Amazon warehouse.

A brief update to alert you to the mounting casualties surrounding Delgo, the animated stinker whose claim to infamy was made much, much clearer once the box-office dust settled this afternoon.

Tom Cruise continues to bring the weirdness on his Valkyrie press tour, so why should Extra's Mario Lopez be spared?

The sordid saga of wiretapping, divorce-aiding, dead-fish wielding private eye to the stars Anthony Pellicano finally ended today with his sentencing to 15 years in federal prison.

Did you hear Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang had his house lined with Kevlar before he laid off 1,500 employees? No idea if that's true, but that's the best rumor I heard all week.

· Banjo legend Roni Stoneman at the Echoplex (part of the Pure Country book release party), Cheap Trick at House of Blues, The Movies at Spaceland.

Jason Calacanis, the voluble CEO of Web directory Mahalo, is a fan of free speech. As long as the words are his own.

A sturdy cross-section of topline Hollywood talent from Tom Hanks to George Clooney to René Auberjonois today urged SAG leadership to back down from its '09 strike threat. Maybe even more noteworthy: Who's missing?

Though the idea of Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres caroling together may sound cute in concept, it's hard to believe Spears would perform even "Frosty the Snowman" sans lip-synching or Autotune.

With fictional storytelling usually just a straight shot to disappointment, we're offering a slate of everything nonfictional television can offer - from cat-related docs to interventions to breast-related pageants. This is why couches are comfy.

A holiday card just flung over the Defamer transom offers word that CBS has canceled its well-reviewed if modestly viewed comedy Worst Week.

We'll admit that we haven't paid much attention to Survivor since its penis-promoting premiere, but to our knowledge, last night's episode marked the first time that unadulterated hatred was broadcast in HD.

With more than 120 million users, Mark Zuckerberg's social network continues to grow, kudzu-like. And yet it is worth far less today than the $15 billion it commanded a year ago. Why is that?