It was a busy year here at AdFreak, as we separated the wheat from the chaff, and then wrote mostly about the chaff. Here are some of the highlights and extreme lowlights from among the 1,450 blog items we posted between Jan. 2 and Dec. 11, 2008. Later this week, we'll start the engines on our other year-end tradition: our week-long contest to pick the single freakiest ad of the year. - Rick Jessup