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Among my guilty pleasures is to celebrate Sunday morning with the New York Times. No, not the online version -- I read that most mornings. No, Sunday morning is for the behemouth, the real deal, the newspaper. Nearly every Sunday, a visitor to my house on a Sunday morning will find me in a bathrobe, huge mug of coffee at hand, and the Times spread across my dining room table. I don't claim to read every word. Who'd want to do that? But I do scan nearly evey page, and savor every minute of it. What I don't usually finish on Sunday, though, is the Times Magazine. There's nearly always something worth enjoying throughout the week, not to mention the famous crossword puzzle. Among my favorite issues of the Magazine each year is "Year In Ideas". This issue, which usually comes out in December, is packed with inventions, developing social trends, and miscellaneous ideas -- some quite odd, and nearly all quite interesting. This issue is so good I often hold onto it long after the recyclers have removed the rest of the 5-pound stack of paper. The last few days, probably out of anticipation for the mid-December release of the 6th Annual edition, I have been perusing the 5th Annual edition, from December 11, 2005. What a year in ideas was 2005! But I'm not going to summarize them, but highlight those few that seem bound by a common theme: