A little more than a year ago, two bored assistants with a credit card, a great idea, and a crazy dream that every attractive assistant in town should be assigned a numerical ranking so low that he or she'd begin to question the looks that got him or her a job in the first place, launched Hollywood's Hottest Assistants, a site that momentarily brought the workday output of the call-rolling class to an absolute standstill. In yesterday's LAT, one of HHA.com's founding troublemakers reminisces about his creation's meteoric rise and fall: