The Weekly for 12 December 2008

• RIP Bettie Page. The iconic pinup died yesterday at age 85.
• At Teen Skepchick, Vy takes on Miss Bimbo.
• From Popmatters: best albums of 2008 from women over 45.
• Lost daughters - an ongoing tragedy in Nepal: "Current numbers for girls trafficked out of the country are now 10,000 to 15,000 yearly."
• Brody Dalle, formerly of the Distillers, is back with a new band, Spinnerette.
• What Don Draper would do with an alien menace.
• Announcing the early films of Howard Hawks blog-a-thon to be held in January.