It's December 8th, which of course, means pausing to honor Kazakhstan’s Day of Green Pea and Jim Morrison's birthday. Then check out what we’ve packed all this week – things you can read, hear and do.

• And the (best) answer is: What makes a tire bulge? Does casual dress improve workplace morale? How long can you freeze meat? How can you keep your cat out of your Christmas tree? Which off-the-beaten-path Parisian café has the best hot chocolate? Answers to these user questions and more have been tallied up for your reading pleasure by our Yahoo! Answers team. Check out more of the Best of Answers 2006.
• Rumor has it: Wanna know whom the Yankees are courting or where next year’s NASCAR’s Nextel Cup awards banquet will be? Football, baseball, hockey and more — find out all the titillating gossip on Yahoo! Sports’ new “rumor” section.
• Finance gets visual: If you’re more of an audio-visual person, the latest FOX videos on business news, market reports, and personal finance are now within your view — literally. Get your triple-sensory fix at Yahoo! Finance.
• Tapping the wisdom of crowds: What do you get when you combine a free public forum with industry and academic experts from across the country? A conversation series (confab.yahoo.com) that brings together visionaries from Yahoo!, Google, HP, Microsoft, startups, and academia to discuss the next generation Internet. First up: prediction markets (a kind of stock market for ideas, products, or information). Sign up here or join us next Wednesday at our Sunnyvale headquarters.
• The right place at the right time: Yahoo! News and Reuters takes “eye witness” to another level by inviting you to submit your photos and video clips of events as you see them. Whether from a camera phone or camcorder, your shot could be tagged to a news story featured on Yahoo! News. Go forth and be camera happy!
• More is merrier: If you thought connecting with your MSN buddies over Yahoo! Messenger was pretty neat, we’ve just added a new category of friends to instant message. Coming soon, your friends on Lotus Sametime will be able to send you fun chatter over Yahoo! Messenger. How will we ever get any work done?

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