“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die – whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.”
—Gilda Radner

… $16 billion.

That’s about how much revenue analysts back in July expected social media sites to generate in 2012.

That’s also the amount that ClickZ says has been spent online this holiday season.

Coincidence? Hmmmmm …

Jon Stewart turns 50 today. Here’s one of his greatest teevee moments.

They don’t exist.

David Pogue explains.

Now knock it off.

Check out this brief excerpt from one of the opening paragraphs of this month’s Wired cover story:

With two minutes and $4 to spend at a sketchy foreign website, I could report back with your credit card, phone, and Social Security numbers and your home address. Allow me five minutes more and I could be inside your accounts for, say, Amazon, Best Buy, Hulu, Microsoft, and Netflix. With yet 10 more, I could take over your AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon. Give me 20—total—and I own your PayPal. Some of those security holes are plugged now. But not all, and new ones are discovered every day.

If that’s not enough for you to go read Mat Honan’s entire article, I have no idea what you’re doing online.