this deeply flawed and dangerous bill a few weeks ago. It's a problem because the bill would trample over the first amendment and short-circuit due process. I suggested that, despite it being stalled due to the mid-term elections, it would resurface and, by the gods, it has with COICA being recently passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee with a 19 to 0 vote!

The only thing in the way of the bill now is Sen. Ron Wyden, (D-Ore.), who opposes it for being the "wrong medicine" for copyright infringement. Despite the good senator's stand, COICA isn't going away because there's too much money behind it being supplied by the entertainment industry.

Given the pantheon of perversity, the cavalcade of the clueless to choose from, these were, the judges felt, uniquely deserving of recognition. But as deserving as all of those are, I'm going to award this year's top Gibbs Golden Turkey to good old .

Yep, Microsoft is nominated for perhaps the most self-serving, unenlightened corporate response to the marketplace's wild enthusiasm for one of its products we've ever seen. I speak, of course, about the recent release of the , Microsoft's controller that uses video and audio tracking to provide control input to games.

Within days of the Kinect's release, hackers lured in part by a $3,000 prize, in part by the fame and glory, but largely I suspect, by an overwhelming desire to "stick it to the man," created drivers for the Kinect and began to create novel user interfaces and new uses for it.