Here is an email from Gawker's junior video guy, Nick McGlynn, who harvests our Tivos for content:

· We bestow the Defamer Medal of Heroism upon Dr. Mark Lowe, who helped save the life of a man shot point blank in the middle of a crowded Colorado Blvd. in Old Town Pasadena last night, and whose clinical emphasis on the word "weed" we've now savored approximately two dozen times.
· For the love of God, we beg you not to click on this photo of Keith Richards Photoshopped to have two mouths where his eyes should be. Please! Don't! We beg of you!
· The LAT has a list about all the reasons they—gasp!—hate end-of-year lists.
· Well, whatever, LAT. We love lists. Particularly the AFI's annual Moments of Significance, which, uh...celebrate the significant moments of our lives? "The Hollywood writers strike, the iPhone and the 'hyper-tabloidization' of television news" top this year's list.
· Eddie Murphy is reportedly set to "wed any minute now in the South Pacific." That smashing sound is a hundred 4 a.m. Yukon Mining Co. patrons' hearts shattering.

Why all the lists heading into 2008? Well, laziness. That, and the urge to reflect on the year gone by. No, mostly laziness. And in that spirit, we present you Valleywag's top 10 list of top 10 lists. Oh yeah — our lazy, it's meta.

While we've been slaving over a year's worth of Defamer hot links, plucking only the juiciest for our Year in Review series, Defamer videographer Molly McAleer has been hard at work too, cobbling together this countdown of Defamer's Top 10 Videos of 2007, with interstitials set to a delightful hip-hop soundtrack.

It's a little late, but the Jewish media titans controlling this site don't exactly know when the pagan holiday commemorating the birth of your false prophet falls on your calendar; what you call "Christmas," occuring on December 25th, is just regular ol' Tevet 16th, 5768 to us. Having said that, here's a video montage of Britney Spears set to one of her own Christmas songs, as compiled by Defamer's own Image Party Picasso, Molly McAleer.

In an attempt to terrify its native readers, UK paper The Guardian is showing brief documentary films on the American Presidential Primaries. This one on Rudy Giuliani features an interview with noted Giuliani-hater Wayne Barrett and brief chats with Giuliani fans welcoming their savior at a New Hampshire meet-and-greet. In this clip, a red-shirted gentleman insists that what we really need is a candidate who's not afraid to shoot you in the goddamn face. Head over to The Grauniad to see the whole thing, including a promise from the New Hampshire State Co-Chair of Veterans for Rudy that their guy's the only one with the wherewithal to combat "the rise of the Muslims." Tremble in your sandals, Old Europe! We just might elect this nut!

True Giuliani [The Guardian]

What's in store for 2008? Ask ex-Fox exec and new Velocity Interactive Group investor Ross Levinsohn. "The deconsolidation of big media, something happening with Yahoo, I think, and probably widgets. Or Facebook plus widgets," Levinsohn told Kara Swisher. On second thought, don't ask.

You've no doubt noticed that Carson Daly's been demonstrably less gut-bustingly hilarious these past few weeks sans pro writers —the bon mots his niece texts him from math class usually fall flat—but the show hit a new low last night when the material-starved talking head, openly looking to kill a few minutes, held a "talent" show featuring members of his put-upon staff. Listen to the tone of voice of everyone in this thing. Heaven's Gate members were peppier.

NBC execs have their hands deep inside sad puppet Carson Daly—having told him that his entire staff would be fired if "Last Call" didn't go back on the air—and so the poor (but unfired!) staffers have taken to the stage themselves, performing stupid human tricks. Oh boy. How bad is writer-free "Daily Show" going to be when Jon Stewart is forced back on the T.V. on January 7? This strike is ugly.

On her Christmas show, Martha Stewart produced the ceramic Nativity Scene she crafted while she was in prison. The other inmates had to pick just one figure a month to fire 'n' glaze—but MarStew did the whole thing in her five month on the inside. It's cute at the end, she asks her mother in the audience if she likes it and you can tell Martha Sr. is just thinking, "Bitch, are you really asking me if I'm proud of the damned brown clay figures you made while you were in jail?" But actually? They're pretty impressive!

We're sure more than a few of you apartment- and tract-housing dwellers without the luxury of a real fireplace have turned to the crackling comforts of the televised Yule Log over the years to give your Christmas mornings some added ambiance.

She sings:

And now, at last: Charo's appearance on the Pee-Wee Herman show's infamous Christmas Special. YOU'RE WELCOME.

Can we safely confide in you that the one person we've been able to rely upon this holiday season, there to comfort us daily with homemade butterscotch eggnog recipes and the proper shade of Krylon with which to gild our manteltop wreaths, is our rock, Martha Stewart?

Here's the infamous Blockles, the Tetris clone from Iminlikewithyou founder Charles Forman. "I dont know what Tetris is," Forman told me. "Blockles is a falling block puzzle game." Right. One that I kicked your ass at, boyo. (Check out the sweet swap move I pulled about 25 seconds in. Bam.)

Roving, pedestrian hassling videographer Alex Goldberg spent some time in SoHo and Union Square asking passersby what they wanted for the holidays. While many people want to be left alone by dudes with video cameras, a few want world peace, and one gentleman just wants to be loved, and to hear himself speak.

Tim Faulkner: