GOODLINKS: a weekend round-up from across the web

• Legendary actress, singer, and sex kitten Eartha Kitt passed away on Christmas Day at the age of 81. (via Popbytes)
  
  
• Check out Poppytalk’s Boxing Day sale for great deals on handmade and vintage goods online.
  
  
• Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have released about 100 new outtakes from their book Influence. (via Fashion Indie)
  
  
• Videogum posted the best and worst people of 2008.
  
  
• Finally— I can re-live my first-ever job at Dairy Queen with the new game DQ Tycoon. (via the New York Times)
  
  
• Coldplay, Adele, Foo Fighters, Josh Groban, Jennifer Hudson, and other Grammy nominees will pay tribute to Neil Diamond at the MusiCares Person of the Year gala next month. (via Variety)
  
  
• It took one Maryland girl 13 months to paint her entire car with nail polish. (via Neatorama)
  
  
• Forget the critics: what are musicians’ favorite albums of 2008? (via Sterogum)
  
  
• Paris Hilton’s new ride is a $200,000 Pepto Bismol pink Bentley.
  
  
• Gatehouse Media (a Boston-based free newspaper publisher) is suing the New York Times for linking to them, showing “a near complete misunderstanding of how the internet works.” (via TechDirt)
  
  
• A lot of “best of 08” music lists are making the rounds, but what were the LEAST essential albums of the year? (via The Onion A.V. Club)
  
  
• Too much time on your hands? Love David Hasselhoff? Then download the free I Love Hoff Super Fantastic Activity Book. (via The Presurfer)
  
  
• My favorite year-end list is Readerville Journal’s top 200 most coveted book cover designs of 2008.