Provincial town haters: Has somebody at book website Fishpond has got something against Wanganui? …er, and do they have books on wanking?(Thanks Erin)

Timely: Hangover cures from around the world.

Picture this: Famous people and their cats, including Hunter S. Thompson, Freddy Mercury and Jane Fonda’s yoga cat!

The NZ Herald has its best news videos from 2008 up today. What a smashing idea! Includes an A1GP car racing a Boeing 777 at Auckland Airport and amateur footage of a falling tree nearly crushing a motorist in Nelson. Go here.

And you may have missed the TVNZ unofficial sexy male calendar, which was an in-house Christmas joke. Reporter Arrun Soma and his subtly placed boom; business reporter David Young shows a bit of chest in a mirrored lift; and Breakfast’s Matt McLean, clasping a rose, looks like something out of Little Britain. Go here to see pictures.

Mmmm: Side of bacon on any site you like. Why? Just because bacon is delicious.

Apocalyptic Christmas CardsPhotoshopped Seasonal Gloom.

From Auckland’s Flux Animation, who say “Very topical right now, poor old Santa. He’s is getting a hard time – we’ve given him a chance, something to help lift the tone of his less than savoury reputation, if we were to believe the blogs.” Watch it here. Song by ‘Dave the animator’.

Zainab’s shoes: Iraq’s number one discount footwear emporium.

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