Did you read about the dismissive newspaper magnate/convicted felon, your useless password, and Twinkie getting creamed?

Each day Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.

• That the Twinkie is on the auction block, as Hostess decides to liquidate? —Kevin Warwick and J.R. Jones (people really love their Twinkies, huh?)

• About the discovery of a mummified dog in Mexico suspected to be 1,000 years old? —Ben Sachs

• The Hater’s Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog —Mike Sula

• This terrifying Wired article about how our passwords can’t protect us? —Julia Thiel

• About how over lamb cutlets and a £75 bottle of wine, the disgraced
financier and press baron Conrad Black dismisses his conviction for
fraud? —Jerome Ludwig

• About how Bush v. Gore backfired against Republicans in this election? (Jeffrey Toobin’s New Yorker piece is behind a pay wall but there’s this.) —Kate Schmidt

• Republican governors declare it’s time to give their party “a very serious proctology exam.” —Mick Dumke

Have anything else worth reading? Throw it in the comments.