>> Congratulations are in order for the local D.C. blogs that won awards from the 2007 Bloggie Awards. Frank Warren’s PostSecret won for Best Topical Weblog and Best Community Weblog, and Wonkette took home the honor of Best Political Weblog. You guys make it look easy, and we know better than anyone that it’s not. Way to get that product out on them corners!

>> Sixteen different Springfields across the country are vying for the chance to play host to the world premiere of the Simpsons movie. What do we have to do to make sure it’s Springfield, Va.? We can do this if we work together, people. And we’re not above sabotage. [CNN]

>> Stocks plunge once again, this time the Dow Jones industrials are down more than 240 points in their second-biggest drop of the year. The trouble this time stems from subprime lenders that are going belly up. [WaPo]

>> Sigh. Looks like we’re unlikely to see a mass release of alleged D.C. Madam Deborah Jean Palfrey’s list of johns. Word has it Palfrey has agreed not to sell the list, and instead is giving it free of charge to a news organization (we’re not sure which one — WaPo?) who will pick through it and see if anyone actually newsworthy appears. We guess we can still hope for a fish so big that no news organization could resist frying it, and we suppose we can admit this is probably a good thing for hundreds of anonymous local married men who would be humiliated by such a release. But odds are good no one is going to see the list. Alas. It was a beautiful dream while it lasted. [WTOP]

>> Police discover human skull, separate skeletal remains in Northeast. [WTOP]

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