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It's that time of year again when the opinion polls are out and we all learn who was and wasn't "in."


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For starters we find that the top news makers of 2006 were, big surprise, Angelina Jolie and Tom Cruise.


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Scandalous female celebrities topped the "Yahoo!" search list for 2006, with Britney Spears taking the number 1 spot as the most searched for celebrity. Britney has topped this list 5 of the last 6 years!

Here's more about Britney and the rest of the "Yahoo!" Top Ten "Most Searched" category.

Here are the "Yahoo! Top Movers" for each month of 2006:

January - Barbara Hershey - Boyfriend Naveen Andrews admits to fathering a love child

February - Danish Cartoons - Drawings of Muhammad cause furor

March - NCAA Brackets - NCAA "March Madness" basketball

April - Cynthia Watros - "Lost" character killed off.

May - Jimmy Hoffa - FBI thought they found the dead guy, again.

June - Connie Chung - Fired, again.

July - Justin Timberlake - Releases new song.

August - Gillian Chung - Appears in "Easy Rider" publishes photos of her changing clothes.

September - Steve Irwin - Killed by a stingray.

October - Mermaid Costumes - Halloween costumes

November - Jason Alexander - Britney Spears first ex-husband gains in popularity because of Kevin Federline's dumping.

December - To Be Determined

The Top 10 most searched for babies of 2006, on "Yahoo!"
1- Suri Cruise (Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes)
2- Shiloh Nouvel (Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie)
3- Sean Preston Federline (Britney Spears and Kevin Federline)
4- Jayden James Federline (Britney Spears and Kevin Federline)
5- Kingston James McGregor Rossdale (Gwen Stefani & Gavin Rossdale)
6- David Banda (Madonna and Guy Ritchie)
7- Moses Martin (Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin)
8- Grier Hammond Henchy (Brooke Shields and Chris Henchy)
9- Barron William Trump (Donald Trump and Melania Knauss)
10- Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern (Anna Nicole Smith and Howard K.Stern, maybe)

The Top 10 most searched for news stories of 2006, on "Yahoo!"
1- Death of Steve Irwin
2- Anna Nicole Smith son dies
3- Conflict in Iraq
4- Israel Lebanon conflict
5- U.S. elections
6- Fidel Castro stroke
7- North Korea Nuclear test
8- Jonbenet Ramsey/John Mark Karr false confession
9- Saddam Hussein trial and death sentence
10- Danish Cartoon protests

"Google" lists Paris Hilton as the number one overall most searched for words with Orlando Bloom holding down second place, and Martina Hingus, the only other person on the list coming in seventh.

Lets not forget the crazy guys at "JibJab.com", whose website was among the most popular.

Here's an interesting list of celebrities and the reasons the article refers to them as "ripe for ridicule".

The wackiest and tackiest celebrities of 2006.

The top ten celebrities British lawyers busy.

For you Techies here's the Top 10 searched for tech terms.

The statistics at "Lycos" show that Poker was the #1 most popular keyword used for searches in 2006.

There were plenty of celebrity couplings and decouplings in 2006, and here's a report on the ones that made the news.

We'll wrap up the year with the Top Ten Dumb celebrities of 2006.

I sincerely thank all of my loyal readers for making this my best year at "Creative Weblogging". Thanks to you, readership has risen about 35% over last year, and that's especially gratifying to me.

For those of you who are fans of gambling and or Las Vegas please check out my other blog, "Playtime Las Vegas"

As always, I wish you a very happy and safe New Year. Have a great time celebrating tonight, but please do so in a safe manner.

Yours Truly, Jim