WaPo's Monica Hesse has published her list of the top viral videos of 2008. Making the cut are some industry standards—Tom Cruise and Scientology, Will.i.am and some presidential candidate, and (my personal favorite) Michael Cera and "drunk history."
Here's one I hadn't seen before—some " fierce, fierce dancing" by a spirited and scantily-clad fan of Beyonce's [...]

The New York Times last week reported on a new “beautification engine,” a "computer program that uses a mathematical formula to alter the original form into a theoretically more attractive version." The program runs on the idea that a common standard of beauty can be predicted across cultures, based on international surveys and the ratios [...]