Recession proof? The IPO Market Is Dead… Except For Porn? [TechDirt]

Teevee: Fox Goes After “I Am CNBC” Ads [WallStreetFighter]

Sleazy fun: The Best (and Worst) Sex Scandals of 2008 [Gawker]

Don’t laugh at me — you’re online too. Hope you’re hitting the eggnog as hard as I am.

2009 here we come.

Crisis overkill: Internet Company Valuations Now Below Their Lows From Last Bubble Burst [TechDirt]

Insider trading: I Love You, Honey- Now About That Tender Offer… [Dealbreaker]

Bailout marketing: How Much Do the Big Three Spend on NASCAR? [Breitbart]

Swoosh: Nike shares rise on strong 2Q sales overseas [Yahoo Finance]

Easy call: Isn’t there an easier way to tax online gambling? [TechDirt]

Bluth: The Bernie Madoff Case Is Basically the Plot of Arrested Development [Gawker]

Nobody cares: Follow our stupid site on Twitter [Twitter]

Made-off: Here’s a list of the 10 nastiest Ponzi schemes ever. [Business Pundit]

Nixed: Apple has announced that the next Macworld conference will be its last. [Apple Insider]

Doh!: a collection of 2008 market predictions that were horribly wrong. [peHUB]

Goldie: a comprehensive liveblog of the Goldman Sachs earnings conference call. [Deal-Journal]

Shameless: we need more followers of our Tweeting . [Twitter]

Whistleblower: the fascinating account of Thomas Tamm, the DOJ prosecutor who alerted the New York Times to government surveillance. [Newsweek]

Electric avenue: A Chinese company funded by Warren Buffett launches an electric car for $22,000. [AHN]

Who’s who: an extensive list of Bernard Madoff’s clients victims. [ClusterStock]

Pay up: A Russian company trademarked the ;-) emoticon and is threatening lawsuits. [TechDirt]

Flakebook: Take a gander at Rod Blagojevich’s deleted Facebook account. [Gawker]

Smart: The smart money knew Madoff was cheating and invested with him because of it. [ClusterStock]

We need help: send in suggestions for our logos that suck category.

Good idea: break the automakers into smaller pieces so they won’t be too big to fail. [TechDirt]

Fuck me: The federal deficit is on pace to cross $1 trillion bucks. [Breitbart]

Nice threads: great shirt to wear to job interviews. [WallStreetFighter]

Hornet: A F-18 fighter jet crashed into a San Diego home and killed three people. [San Diego News]

Boo hoo: After the press threw a conniption fit, John Thain won’t ask for a $10 million bonus after all. [Dealbreaker]

Bailout beggers: Congress sends White House an auto bailout proposal. [Breitbart]

Shameless plug: Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter! [Twitter]

Suspicious Minds: The Democrats are investigating the investigation of Eliot Spitzer. [NY Times]

Nuts: The guy who broke the ad agency cubicle sex tape has been fired. [Asylum]

Thanksgiving Gambling: Check out the lines on Turkey-day football games. [Bodog]

That’s it for updates today — posting will be sporadic over the Thanksgiving holidays. Enjoy your dysfunctional families, fatty meals, and quarts of alcohol!

Three strikes: Vikram Pandit has one more screw-up left at Citi. What’s it going to be? [Dealbreaker]

Dumbass: A British juror sent out a Facebook message asking her friends how they would vote in a criminal case. [Techdirt]

Mad Men Material: The already-infamous video that shows two ad agency employees bangin’ in a cubicle. [Gawker]

Score it: The Dow stages the best two-day rally since 1987. [Bloomberg]

Bailout: A liveblog of the Citi-U.S. bailout conference call. [Dealbreaker]

Tweet: You can now follow Idiot Inc. updates on Twitter. [Twitter]

Well as nice as Friday was, let’s all give thanks to our ancestors that this week is over. Here are some headlines from the week the Dow almost closed at 7,500:

The big news of the week of course was the big three bailout hearings — I got carpal tunnel syndrome from liveblogging it. Before the hearings, Ford tried to show some responsibility by selling a big chunk of Maza. Smooth move.

Our poor friends at GGP have hired a bankruptcy firm, and E*Trade might want to find out who they hired.

Of course there were layoffs too: BlackRock will definitely be slashing staff, as will KLA and Boeing. Also WaMu flamed back from the grave with 1,600 call center layoffs.

I think that was it… oh yeah, no more Jerry Yang at Yahoo.

Rest well — let’s hope next week is better.
// Jacopo

Markets rejoice: Obama selects Geithner as his treasury secretary. [Dealscape]

Brutal: this chart reminds us of the week that could have been worse. [Yahoo]

Justice: the RIAA is being sued for racketeering. [TechDirt]

Begging: Idiot Inc. is powered by your tips — help us out. [IdiotInc]

Rags to riches: Somali pirates are turning poor villages into boomtowns. [Yahoo]

Regulation madman: Paulson wants to regulate everyone and everything. [The Deal]

Dumbasses: Canadian regulators give the okay for throttling. Way to go, guys. [Ars]

Perk-slashing: Citigroup is cutting travel & other expences for its employees. [Dealbreaker]