The Nom d'Aplomb people's choicevoting booth is now open. Rate the Emergency Ad Hoc Committee's nom-inations for best board alias of the week in five easy steps:

• Go to the Vote-O-Matic™
• Enter this week's secret access code: Gnome Alaska
• Rate any or all of the nom-inations on a scale of zero to five, where zero & five mean whatever you want them to mean
• Click the "submit" button, and
• Decide whether you want to vote again or return to the message board.

As always, the results will be announced some time Sunday.