• Which turkey gets the better deal: the one with feathers who gets "pardoned" and heads off to Disneyland for a parade with Mickey and Minnie, or the one who has to stay at the White House and run the country? [AP]

• Say goodbye the Trio, the NBC-owned channel that will shutter its channel at the end of the year. But come 2006, it'll be reborn as a "broadband destination" on BravoTV.com. [Media Week]

• We expected Howard Stern to be one of Maer Roshan's biggest fans, but Rush Limbaugh enjoys him some Radar too? There's gonna be a fight for fan club president. [MIN]

• So tired of being overwhelmed with advertising everyday, former ad exec Ji Lee has been slapping blank speech bubbles on subway station and bus shelter ads throughout the city. The bubbles, of course, are then defaced with witty comments like "For a good time call 555-0399" and "Jay wuz here." [NYDN]

• Jack Shafer foresees the downfall of Google while managing to indirectly call (new Slate colleague) Adam Penenberg a deadline johnny for questioning the search giant. Except we don't know Adam to meet his deadlines by writing techno-fairytales. [Slate]

• Craiglist's Craig Newmark wants to do for journalism what he did for classified ads: democratize it. Oh, and still even more revenue from newspapers. [Guardian]

• Martha Stewart may have long ago ditched her ankle bracelet, but convicted cohort Peter Bacanovic just got his removed. Now he can return to being the hottest white collar ex-con, sans accessories. [Radar]