COOLFER dissects the Rolling Stone critics "best of" lists.

SALON: If you can sit through a commercial, their article on post-payola radio and the demise of the independent promoters is interesting. But the rise of satellite radio may decrease the influence of FM radio anyway.

BETTER HUMANS suggest that autism may be a plus for some jobs.

PETA is miffed at Jimmy Carter.

WONKETTE collects pics of our headbangin' President.

TSUNAMI AID: Down under, they're reporting that delivering tsunami aid is stymieing the U.N. Nevertheless, the U.S.-led group will dissolve today, in favor of the U.N. Go figure.

GUIDED BY VOICES EULOGY includes reviews, interviews, trivia and the Top 100 GBV Songs Of All Time.

KANGAROO captured in snowstorm outside Madison, Wisconsin.

SLATE looks at the way female weight is viewed in the U.S. and in other parts of the world.

MARIO WALLENDA -- nearly 43 years after the accident that killed two members of the Flying Wallendas and left him paralyzed from the waist down -- is is getting back on the high-wire.

ALBUM-O-MATIC: Are you bored already of those Albums Of The Year? Use the Album-O-Matic to find your personalized pick for the Album Of 2004.

THE PRO-AM REVOLUTION: Bloggers, open source software contributors, homebrew remix artists and others pursuing amateur activities to professional standards are an increasingly important part of our society and economy.

JIM LINDGREN claims that a well-publicized sex and money study is misleading.

MAGNETIC FIELDS shape planetary nebulae. This may also explain why the Mutara Nebula disrupted starship sensor systems.

JOE LEVY has an insightful review of the expanded reissue of Pavement's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (hat tip to Fluxblog, which also has a download).

GAWKER found a lovely picture of Chris Noth (Sex and the City; Law and Order).

SASHA FRERE-JONES studies the new math of mashups, now that some copyright issues have been resolved.

JENNIFER GARNER is sick and still going with Ben Affleck, but I repeat myself.

BAD HEADLINE, but a good story on blogs.

LINGERIE BOWL is returning, but minus the football game. So why would anyone watch?

ESPN CALLS EVEL KNIEVEL A PIMP, but a federal appeals court rules that it's lighthearted teen slang, not libel.

ASHLEE SIMPSON AT THE ORANGE BOWL: She was bad? Who'da thunk it? PLUS:Stereogum has the Donnas' take on Ashlee's prior lip-syncing, which still applies.

VARIETY looks at Hollywood blogging by people in the business, and by the business, I mean the industry.

FORBES previews music in 2005.

AL-JAZEERA seems to have been cozy with one of Saddam's sons. And someone apparently videotaped it.