Speaking of New Ad Awards ...

And ones we don't need. This item was buried way down deep in Monday's Times. (Stuart Elliott ignored it completely, as usual.):

An insurgent group, the Victorious Army Group, has extended a deadline for a Web design contest, according to an Internet posting. The group has set a Jan. 15 deadline for submissions of a design "worthy of the group's reputation and the reputation of the jihad and the mujahedeen," according to a translation provided by the SITE Institute, which monitors jihadist messages.

The winner is promised "God's blessings" and the opportunity to fire three long-range rockets at an American military base.

It's no Cannes Lion, but it will probably look better in your book than, say, an Addy. (And it does come with some serious hardware.)