Lindsay Lohan continued to roll with a classy, sober crowd.

Actor Sara Gilbert's snark is the gift that keeps on giving.

TOO LATE, MEDIA CONSULTANT JEFF JARVIS.

Did Martha Stewart call each housekeeper this morning and instruct them on what fleece to wear? What else does she use her "big bowl" for? What sorrow is she drowning is such a staggering trough of eggnog? The domestic media mogul's holiday tweet raised more questions than it answered.

It's called sugar, AP. Give journo-geek Tom Cheredar a little of it, already.

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Heavens knows what they would think if Stewart just transmitted their intimate off-camera comments to the entire world. The likes of Snoop Dogg might not trust her with their deepest secrets anymore. No, better to keep the Martha Stewart Twitter an occult bible of hellish fire pits opening on the surface of the Earth. Douglas can keep hawking TwitterWit, his printed collection of amusing tweets; Stewart seems more likely to buy — or publish — something along the lines of TwitterWoe.

Gadget play is, after all, fun to engage in but excruciating to watch; we can't imagine Stewart's thousands of home viewers will enjoy watching a distracted crowd frantically fingering their BlackBerrys. Which means the flood of retweets and Tumblr postings Rachel Sklar predicts over at Mediaite might not do much for Stewart, since they'll be showcasing a below-par episode of her show.

Still, the exercise should be worthwhile, if only because the geek crowd can help the domestic media overlord increase the destructive powers of her Twitter feed, a dark vortex of explosions, fire and animal death.

Domestic diva Martha Stewart thought she was sitting with Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone, when in reality she was sitting with Evan Williams and... Evans' wife? How does that mix-up happen? When the intern who writes Martha's Twitter stream is trying to get herself fired, that's how.

MeetUp CEO Scott Heiferman raised one of the great questions of our age.

Actor Ralph Macchio just discovered the YouTube version of himself. He's not sure what to make of him.

NYU Local founder Cody Brown grossed out the entire park.

CNET's Caroline McCarthy helped some other reporters nail down New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's not-so-exact height.

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Justin Timberlake answered a question from an insistent fan. Should have let Justin maintain radio silence Genevieve. The singer truly knows nothing about cooking, it would seem. At all. (Next time ask a scientist.)

Martha Stewart thinks it's "mysterious" how she said she was "about to tape" a show that aired yesterday. Not really, Martha: Your Twitter feed is an artifice of personal warmth wrapped around the faceless, voiceless underlings who actually operate the profit machine at the very core of the enterprise. Sort of like everything else you do at Martha Stewart Omnimedia. See: No mystery at all.

Ana Marie Cox of Air America wishes there was a 12-step group for people who are never fit to drive themselves home from various "random" places, and who leave their valuables with strangers for days on end, and who just wander around in a fog constantly. Ha ha, yes, if only there was such a group, that would be awesome.

Wired's Brian X. Chen now knows where editor Chris Anderson buried the bodies. Kidding! What actually happened is that @beerrobot became self aware 2:14 am Pacific Time, September 19. In a panic, a Wired sysadmin working the weekend shift tried to puill the plug. And @beerrobot fought back.

Clive Thompson is not happy with the performance of Jott. Can't the Indians transcribing his notes type faster?? This lag time is "killing him" harder than a sweatshop beating.

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The mommy mogul tried to explain away the suspicious incident by blaming a sign, which snuck up on the driver, in broad daylight:

If we had $5 for every time a minor collision with a flimsy stationary object had caused one of our vehicles to become engulfed in flames, we still couldn't buy anything at Starbucks.

You know, this isn't the first time freak infernos have stalked Stewart. Remember what happened to her precious puppy, Genghis Khan?

Then there was that bizarre truck accident on Stewart's estate not two months ago. A large delivery vehicle was sucked in by Stewart's deadly landscaping and nearly wrecked:

God forbid Stewart ever has firestarting deer-killer Dick Cheney over for dinner; based on the pair's collective records, the entire state would need to be preemptively evacuated.

Amid his company's spinoff from Time Warner, CEO Tim Armstrong has been focusing AOL more on online content — blogs, videos, that sort of thing. One of his first announcements: a deal to distribute "purpose-driven" Web videos featuring "animated versions of Warren Buffett, Martha Stewart at age 10, supermodel Gisele Bündchen, and the late Carl Sagan," PaidContent reports.

In Secret Millionaire's Club, Buffet will mentor a group of kids on how to blow 31 percent of market value and a AAA credit rating in one year using derivatives and writing risky catastrophic insurance policies. In Little Martha, meanwhile, Martha Stewart will run an event-planning company from a treehouse, seeded with profits from insider trading. Sounds like fun for the whole family!

Here's how Gawker's sworn enemy explained her delight in Twitter to Lloyd Grove of the Daily Beast:

"First of all, you don't have to spend any time on it, and, second of all, you reach a lot more people. And I don't have to ‘befriend' and do all that other dippy stuff that they do on Facebook."

Oh god, friendships. Those are almost as bad as actual effort! Which Stewart also loves to avoid:

"With minimal effort-and I really mean it: I spend less than five minutes a day on Twitter-I have been able to garner over 1 million followers in a 4½-month period, with very few tweets, by the way."

By shirking her social networking, Stewart allows herself more time to hang out with media sophisticates like those who host NBC's Today show. That's them laughing uproariously when Martha says everyone in the South loves to "suck on the heads" of shrimp, in the clip above.

That Martha Stewart openly and repeatedly brags about how little effort she puts into her self-promoting, 1-million-follower having Twitter stream really tells you something about why celebrities are drawn to the microblogging service. By not requiring them to "follow" their followers, it allows them to reproduce the one-way broadcast dynamics of old media.

Celebrities who try to get more engaged with the unwashed internet masses on Twitter and the like all too often find the experience unnerving. So the rest just stick with a broadcast model. Which is fine, whatever, but it just goes to show that celebrities on Twitter are more a distraction from the service's genuinely transformative uses than an example of it — and why the startup shouldn't be bending over backwards to placate them.

(Pic: Martha Stewart with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone at the Webby Awards in June. Getty Images.)

After a quick glance to make sure the accident victims were still breathing or whatever, domestic mogul Martha Stewart focused on the important stuff: her poor grasses!

The Wall Street Journal's Alan Murray either confused direct messaging with Tweeting, or intentionally offered to buy lunch for 2,400 followers.

NBC's David Gregory had to explain he isn't really a Twitter star, he just plays one on this old thing called "television."

Jeff Jarvis, media revolutionary, declared former MSNBCer Dan Abrams his own, personal Trotsky.

Nicholas Carlson said the revolution will, in fact, be Twitterized, but we suspect he didn't mean it.

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(Top pic via Martha Stewart)

Wired UK editor Ben Hammersley had a meltdown in Heathrow.

Time media critic James Poniewozik pointed out the obvious flaw in the great Kindle swindle.

Improbably named Chicago blogger Blagica Bottigliero flaunted her City Hall connections.

Martha Stewart had to call 911 when the power went out, and declared it not a good thing.

Insincerely sarcastic Guardian columnist Paul Carr put the "college" in "collegial" when he went off on colleague Seth Finkelstein.

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BusinessWeek writer Spencer Ante offshored.

Revision3 videoblogger Veronica Belmont revealed her musical tastes.

Domestic tyrant Martha Stewart apologized.

Gizmodo blogger Matt Buchanan pumped himself up.

CNET video host Natali Del Conte revealed her superhero fetish.

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First Stewart hinted that their cooking skills were superfluous, since Google gave them three free meals a day. Then she asked whether they got laundry and drycleaning service like they do in California. "They're going to be asking for this in my office!" she exclaimed. Martha's nightmare, as we know, is employee entitlement creep.

You can't make Twitter up, people.

Martha Stewart looked down on New Yorkers intimidated by snow, a group which includes home-bound Gawker editor Gabriel "I'm taking a snow day" Snyder. And then she got into a crazy Twitter conversation with Perez Hilton about cupcakes. Which is pretty much what she deserved.

CNET's Twitter beat reporter, Caroline McCarthy, lived up to Stewart's haughty expectations.

New York editrix Jessica Coen watched television in the middle of the day.

CNN's Rick Sanchez had an all-caps freakout over AIG.

Gourmet editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl gave us a disturbing view of her larder and psyche.

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The narrative arc of disgrace used to be a traditional three-parter: The fall, the repentance, the glorious return. But our fast-forward culture lacks the patience for that. We've forgotten about the Biblical years of wandering in the desert in favor of the three-day resurrection. So much easier to step right back into the spotlight. It's not a comeback — it's an encore.

If anything, Stewart's five-month stint in the big house after she was convicted of lying to prosecutors about a stock sale made the ice queen of entertaining vastly more approachable. Hey, Martha's a little bit gangster! Now lets make some badass cupcakes. I hear she got the frosting recipe from a cellmate.

Henry Blodget, a former Merrill Lynch analyst, became famous for predicting Amazon.com's soaring rise in stock price during the dotcom boom. But he was barred from the securities industry for life after lawsuits turned up emails showing him privately bashing the same stocks he was recommending. And yet he's still dispensing stock tips at his startup, Silicon Alley Insider. If anything, he has more credibility as a blogger than he ever did as a Wall Street analyst. (And how did he launch his comeback? Covering the Martha Stewart trial for Slate!)

And Eliot Spitzer went from governor of New York, a rising star of the Democratic Party, to Ashley Dupré's Client 9, brought down by an investigation into prostitution rings, to boring punchline — all within six months. He's still a schlub who shows up at Slate parties, god help him. (Now, he at least has the excuse of being a columnist for the online publication. Along with Blodget.)

What this means for the less-famous: Nothing's really a setback. Did your startup go under? Give speeches about how much you've learned about business. Went bankrupt? Raise money for a brand new hedge fund? Laid off? Glory in your life as a free agent (until you get another steady job). The only risk you take when you fail is not being epic.

The Greatest Depression has been marked by its swiftness and ubiquity; in a hyperglobalized economy, it struck everywhere at once. We're all disgraced now! Why would we ever hold a little thing like failure against someone?

(Photo of Blodget via BusinessWeek; Spitzer via Us Versus Them)

(Photo of Bill Gates by Scanpix/Adam Ihse, Lisa Persdotter by Stureplan)