Best:

• Personal flying vehicle -- Maybe this will let me get to work on time.
• New Battery Technology -- Maybe I can use these to power the flying machine.
• Polymer Vision Rollable Display -- The first use of the display is set to be the Readius an awesome looking ebook reader that should give Sony Reader and the Kindle a run for their money.
  
• Biofuels from waste biomass
  
• Roads made of solar power melted sand? -- Old item that happened to pop up this month 
  
• UCLA Undie Run -- Would have been fun.
• Under Water Hotel -- Underwater hotels are cool.

Worst:

• Carbon tax on babies.
• Robots with guns -- Always a bad idea :)
• Even more draconian copyright laws -- Now they want to seize your computer for copyright violation. Maybe they should read this.
• "w00t" crowned word of year by U.S. dictionary -- A word that means nothing invented by people who know nothing crowned word of the year.
• iDiamond earbuds -- $6,400 for a set of ear phones is excessive even for Bill Gates.

A short list of some of the best and worst stories that have made the news on the web in December. The best/worst classification is purely subjective; you may agree or disagree. This will be updated as new stories appear.

Add a comment with some examples of your own. They may get added to the list, with credit of course.