LIVE AID: With the concert's arrival on DVD, a BBC TV producer follows the Ethiopian aid money. It's a road paved by good intentions.

CHELY WRIGHT fires the head of her fan club after after The Tennessean learned that some of them posed as members of the military or their families to promote her latest song.

DAVE BARRY wants a dog:

If we're visiting someone's home, and I suddenly experience a sensation of humid warmth, and I look down and see that my right arm has disappeared up to the elbow inside the mouth of a dog the size of a medium horse, I am not alarmed. I know that this is simply how a large, friendly dog says: ''Greetings! You have a pleasing salty taste!''

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CATS AND DOGS: The 12 Leaves of Festivus.

ANN ALTHOUSE considers the potential problem of "blogola."

JOSH BROLIN was arrested on a charge of spousal battery after an argument with his wife, actress Diane Lane.

THE NATION accidentally admits there were victims of Communism.

POP VERSUS SODA: Americans' preferred terms for soft drinks, laid out like an election map.

TANNENBAUM TRIVIA: fun facts about the trees, not the Wes Anderson movie.

LAST MINUTE GIFT SUGGESTION: How about a gingerbread laptop?

GIFTS TO AVOID: PC Magazine lists the Ten Worst Products of the Year.

THE DAILY MAIL: "If you are daunted by the endless Christmas merry-go-round of family visits, remember there is always someone who has it tougher than you. And that someone is probably Sir Mick Jagger. The 62-year-old lothario has to pay for his womanising ways every December by juggling his time to keep his girlfriend, ex-girlfriends, ex-wives and seven children happy."

AUSSIE BLOGGER ARTHUR CHRENKOFF rounds up two weeks of non-war news from Iraq.

FILE-SHARING: Lawsuits filed by the MPAA appear to have shut down at least two popular BitTorrent servers.

DUVET, a bed-filled restaurant, has opened in Chelsea. Life imitates Sex and the City.

JON PRATT has surely heard that the Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Technology has released its 2004 Strategic Plan for the Federal R&D program in nanotechnology. Follow the money...

TARGET may be feeling the pain of its decision not to allow Salvation Army kettles in front of its stores this year.

LAWN ART: Photography meets photosynthesis.