This Andy Samberg/Justin Timberlake digital short from last night's episode of SNL is probably the funniest thing SNL has done all season. I have to give Timberlake credit, I can't say I like his music, but he's always funny on SNL.

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December means people putting together their best of '06 lists, which also means a good time to find stuff that I missed throughout the year. Probably my favorite list so far was the one over at Underrated, which had a lot of bands I'd never heard of and reads like a list of someone's favorite albums, rather than a list of albums someone thought they should like the best. I'll throw together my top ten or whatever at some point in the next few weeks, but here are other people's favorites that I missed out on. It's pretty much all similar, poppy indie rock, but Liam and Me deserves a mention if only for their name, which is a blatant and pretty awesome reference to the Jesus Quintana/Liam O'Brien bowling team in The Big Lebowski.

Division Day / "Tap-Tap, Click-Click"
A Brief Smile / "This Machine"
Oh No! Oh My! / "A Walk in the Park" (left-click)
Liam and Me / "There's a Difference"
Midlake / "Roscoe" (left-click)

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One of my favorite musical discoveries this year has been Finland's Husky Rescue, and the upside to only having discovered their 2005 debut Country Falls a few months ago is that they're releasing their follow-up, Ghost is Not Real, in January. To prep for that they've got a single and video out as well, and it's pretty damn good. And yes, their lead singer is still hot. You can find a link to download the entire album over yonder.

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This kid sounds rather awesome, and clearly has seen Super Troopers.:

A judge dismissed charges on Monday against a 14-year-old boy accused of meowing whenever he saw his 78-year-old neighbor. Police had charged Michael Loughner with misdemeanor harassment this summer.

The boy's family got rid of its cat after Alexandria Carasia complained it was using her flower garden as a litter box. Carasia claimed the boy would make meowing sounds every time he saw her. The boy says he only meowed at her twice.

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Slate explains the pointlessness of our proposed moonbase

There is scientific research to be done on the moon, but this could be accomplished by automatic probes or occasional astronaut visits at a minute fraction of the cost of a permanent, crewed facility. Astronauts at a moon base will spend almost all their time keeping themselves alive and monitoring automated equipment, the latter task doable from an office building in Houston. In deadpan style, the New York Times story on the NASA announcement declared, "The lunar base is part of a larger effort to develop an international exploration strategy, one that explains why and how humans are returning to the moon and what they plan to do when they get there." Oh–so we'll build the moon base first, and then try to figure out why we built it.

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A Texas bill has been introduced which would allow blind people to hunt. Like, with weapons and shit.

The bill would allow legally blind hunters to use a laser sight, or lighted pointing instrument, which is forbidden for sighted hunters, according to State Rep. Edmund Kuempel, who introduced it.

"This opens up the fun of hunting to additional people, and I think that's great," Kuempel said.

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Devin Hester set the single season TD return record last week, but we probably should have seen it coming. Some of his returns at Miami were fucking ridiculous.

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Here's an utterly bizarre outtake from an old episode of Siskel and Ebert where the dynamic duo start randomly swearing and cursing the existence of...Protestants.