Talking Poings Memo rounds up the 10 most viral Sarah Palin videos of the last year. Lots to giggle about here.

Vanity Fair has a habit of posting stub abstracts of their bigger articles. This isn't exclusive to VF, Rolling Stone does it, too, but it is an annoying way of using the web. Barry Ritholtz takes them to task for this, and then publishes the PDF that they sent him to drum up publicity. If you can't wait until next week to read Michael Lewis' take down of Joe C and AIG that explores among other things:

How A.I.G. F.P. became the first stop for Wall Street banks looking to insure the massive amounts of debt they were buying, packaging, and selling: “We were doing every single [credit-default swap] deal with every single Wall Street firm, except Citigroup,” says one A.I.G. F.P. trader. “Citigroup decided it liked the risk and kept it on their books. We took all the rest,”

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In other Michael Lewis news, you probably knew that the Siderbergh/Pitt vehicle, 'Moneyball', got axed last week. Here's an insider's version of events that doesn't make anyone at Sony look very good. Sandra Bullock's 'The Blindside' continues to truck, and still, for some reason, no one has made any moves to make 'Liar's Poker'.

I have no doubt that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a terrible, terrible movie. However, I have a number of bones to pick with Christopher Orr's review in The New Republic.

One! "Autobot" and "Decepticon" are proper nouns, and should be capitalized.

Two! Before you start mocking "The Matrix of Leadership," perhaps you'd best sit down and watch the best movie ever made.

Three! "The movie opens with an extended monologue by chief autobot (that is, good robot) Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen, heretofore best known as the voice of Eeyore in countless Pooh cartoons)"? I think you mean, "Peter Cullen, heretofore best known as the voice of Optimus goddamn Prime."

Submitted with a giggle, here's Bostonist's take on Berlin's recent banning of fixed gear bicycles. They're hoping Boston is next and might check here or here for more ammo.

ESPN just linked here referencing this story. Not sure why they didn't link to that story directly. If you'll click through, you'll see it's a Bill Simmons quotation. What comes around, goes around, in a good way.

Woman with pug apparently assaulted by misogynistic cop.