Boy, did we open a can of worms when we asked you to interpret David Brooks' tsunami column.

Yet more Rolodex journalism from our favorite numerical journalist, Jennifer 8. Lee:

'SPIN' associate lad-itor Dave Itzkoff pulls off the impressive feat of having back-to-back articles in The Times 'Arts & Leisure' this week.

Maybe we're still a bit fuzzy-headed after too much cheap New Year's champagne (we had no idea you could buy champers in a box!), but we've been trying to figure out what—if anything—David Brooks was trying to say in his Jan. 1, 2005 column in The Times.

Gasp! Another scandal is brewing hotter than a cup of ice water over at the New York Times. Jennifer 8, formerly a Harvard co-ed and currently a Gray Lady reporter, has her very own anecdotal Deep Throat: a quote-spewing, dog-walking, model/actress named "Amanda Tree" who has popped up in two articles of 8's in as many days.

New York Times Public Editor Dan Okrent muses on God's work being done from West 43rd Street.

Did everyone bask in a global feel-good vibe on Christmas Day like blogger/Conde Nast exec Jeff Jarvis? Was there a moment, say right before the youngest family member catapulted a fork across the room, that you thought "nevermind the election, war politics, and existence of Fox News — it's all gonna be ok"? Good, now pluck that fork out of the ceiling and jam it into your ear. NYT's Thomas Friedman wastes no time in getting his Scrooge loose and reminding us how we're all still totally fucked.

From The New York Times' 'Corrections: For the Record':

It's one thing to run the media, but now they're rubbing it in our faces.

Second Lady Lynne Cheney's got an Op-Ed in today's Times called A Revolutionary Christmas Story.

The Times has a riveting little story that reads like a corporate thriller. Wait, it's more like an allegory about our image obsessed culture. Actually, it's a love story like Romeo and Juliet. No, it's more like a David vs. Goliath tale. Or one of those yarns about a passionate, eccentric inventor. You know what, it's a children's story about being rejected for your looks only to have your inner-beauty discovered.

As everyone knows, not having a date on New Year's Eve sucks. What, you didn't know that? Well, The New York Times' Nancy Rosen reports that in The Fate of 'the Date', so it must be true.

In this weekend's Times Magazine, Lynn Hirschberg profiles Newmarket Films' president Bob Berney and looks at the challenges he faces marketing The Woodsman, a film in which Kevin Bacon plays a pedophile. Here's Hirschberg on Berney's strategy:

Kids. They grow up so fast and become marketing people.

Buried at the bottom of Sharon Waxman's Times piece on the "new" trend of cynical Christmas films (Christmas with the Kranks, Surviving Christmas, Bad Santa , and Home Alone get name checked, but, curiously, a bona fide classic of Christmas cynicism, A Christmas Story isn't mentioned once) is this strange little pitch by author David Thomson:

All right, comic book fans: we get it. How many Times corrections can your angry emails prompt?

From The Times 'Travel Section' profile of hotelier André Balazs:

One year you're on top:

Attention job seekers: always wanting to help you as best we can, we've discovered the perfect position for the otherwise unemployable. The Times online department is looking for an associate editor, so put that bong down and brush up your resume! Responsibilities include:

Better late than never: