• Mix Mayor Mike: Newly inaugurated Mayor of Philadelphia Michael Nutter teams up with ?uestlove to remind America that he is in fact black (though mad old) with a rousing rendition of Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight."

• Free at last: After spending a short 18 days behind bars, Lost lezzie Michelle Rodriguez is back on the streets 163 days before her sentence ends. What a bitch.

• Remotely interesting: Those wacky nerds at Gizmodo took their TV-B-Gone to CES and ruined the lives of as many presenters as they could. Real mature, guys.

• When government contractors attack: Those merry pranksters at Blackwater had some fun with U.S. soldiers back in 2005 by dousing them with CS gas, which, according to Capt. Kincy Clark, "was decidedly uncool."

• Queen of Mean: A former Royal police officer claims Princess Di confided in him that the Queen didn't support her work to find a cure for AIDS. A cure for wrinkles would have been a much nobler pursuit.

• Paper cuts: In 2008 newspapers will die, according to Goldman Sachs analysts. Duh, Nelson Muntz could have told you that.