Dubya's Web-design contractors forgot to pay for georgewbushlibrary.com — and ended up paying $35,000 to get it back.

Everyone celebrates the holidays differently, but within two hours you can see a pair of lesbian teens deciding their future and Tom Arnold profile redneck yuletides. Only on cable, kids, only on cable.

• This week started great and just kept getting better! First, Tribune Company went bankrupt, which Sam Zell insisted was not a big deal. But all the ladies were too drunk to notice or care!

No flu shot can yet immunize us from the annual plague of Top 10 lists; the best you can hope for is a weaker, less-contagious strain than last year's. Stephen King gives us hope.

Is there a teenage boy alive who can't appreciate the simple pleasures of face-kicking twin sisters or a menagerie of marsupials? There are two, in fact, and they are the teenage sons of Hugh Hefner.

We mentioned earlier the outrage of a prospective intern approached by the ancient-but-rebranded magazine Atlantic—40 hours unpaid per week. But it turns out it wasn't an isolated incident. They're building an entire slave army!

It's the former New York City mayor's 84th bday today! So here he is, warbling away in an animated short that won an Oscar in 1983.

No one knows why but when the Obama's asked to stay in Blair House during the transition so that they could get their kids enrolled in school, as is traditional of most incoming presidents, the current White House said "no." Wtf? Is it Laura's drug den or something? Are they afraid he'll mess the place up? [NYT]

Royal Tenenbaums director Wes Anderson doesn't typically work with two-time Sexiest Man Alive winners (keep trying, Schwarzbaum!), so to imagine what the director could do with Brad Pitt doesn't come easily.

We've uncovered what's really killing the online-advertising business: Sarah Palin! Or rather, the lack thereof. Traffic at Hulu, NBC's YouTube wannabe, tumbled in November without the Web's favorite hot lady governor and VP candidate.

Back in the days before teen heartthrobs were photographed in front of baby penises at the local novelty store, Van Johnson was a wholesome young star America could stand behind. And now he's dead.

You know what are always fun (well, mostly for us)? Commenter executions. Yeah, some of you nogoodniks have been running around with impunity for too long. So today eight of you are getting culled.

Call us 80's purists if you must (it's a fair charge — after all, these Betamax tapes of Space Camp aren't gonna watch themselves), but when remaking The Karate Kid, some things are essential.

You know what we need more of around here? Change. Though it's purely coincidental to our recent redesign, we got the go-ahead today from Facebook to flip the Facebook Connect switch.

What is it, precisely, that is so annoying about the on-off romance between MySpace-MTV fameball Tila Tequila and Courtenay Semel, the daughter of former Yahoo and Warner Bros. bossman Terry Semel?

"If I Kan't Get a *BOUND* Galley of Emily Gould's Ahem MANUSCRIPT Under My Tree Then There IS NO Santa Klaus, Virginia!!"

· AMPTP sent a letter to Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and Diane Feinstein, "excoriated SAG leaders." A bailout hearing could follow, should they produce "some facetime with Ben Stiller and that adorable Farrell fellow." [Variety]

Oh, the poor, sad McCain campaign just sold all of their leftover campaign crap, for pennies. And of course some reporter bought some used Blackberries and guess who didn't delete anything off it?

• Tim Gunn says he and Heidi Klum are "despondent" over the "horrible, nasty" fight over Project Runway. "We worry that season six will never be seen by anyone," he says. Us, too! [WB]
• Tory Burch's new meatpacking store opened last night with very little fanfare. [WSJ]
• Dolce & Gabbana is launching a makeup line early next year. And rumor has it Scarlett Johansson will be the face of the ad campaign. [WWD, SF]
• Matthew Williamson is in expansion mode. He's planning to launch a menswear line. [Vogue UK]
• Depressed? Single? Go get some Botox! Says Tom Ford: "A little bit of it between the brows can make you look less stern and more approachable. Who needs to frown, anyway?" [Details]

Psychotically corrupt Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich deleted his Facebook account just after the FBI arrested him for trying to sell Obama's vacant Senate seat. Here's what he was trying to get rid of.