• Les Goodstein, Mort Zuck's top Daily News biz exec, pulls a Benedict Arnold and joins News Corp. It must have been all the nice things the Post has said about him that lured him crosstown.
• Alessandra Stanley is the wrongest of all Times critics. But, then, we already knew that.
• Judy Miller rides the subway. And presumably shvitzes on it.
• Make your own Peter Braunstein. Fun for the whole family!
• Thank you, NYPD, for saving us from J.Lo's wedding video. For the record, we, like the News, are opposed to cops getting shot, too.
• Even Paul Lynde has straighter vacation photos than Ricky Martin does. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
• Hallelujah! Krucoff returns from Israel, and he's promptly dragooned into Gawker service.
• We have no idea what a lang syne is, but we hope yours is delightfully auld this weekend. We'll be back Tuesday, with Krucoff returned to his proper role as a butt of Gawker's taunts, not a propagator of them. Be careful out there, and catch you in the '06.

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