With a healthy mix of "consistant design systems" and "key influencers" your child's birthday could be a viral marketing success.

In case you haven't noticed, Tunisia's fallen apart. Its president just fled the country after weeks of riots, and the military has taken control. The U.S. Embassy will still be closed on Martin Luther King Day, though. Holidays are holidays!

Did you wake up early today for CSPAN's coverage of the Republican National Committee leadership election? It's thrilling. The candidates build secret coalitions and screw each other over all day. Who will win? Anyone but current chair Michael Steele.

A group of Japanese scientists claim that now that they've figured out how to extract DNA from frozen cells, they can clone a living woolly mammoth in four years. That's faster than we'll see the next Ice Age sequel.

It's not even halfway through January, and we've already had two big rat-related stories! With the subway rat an apparent runner-up, BWE.TV's Michelle Collins has declared Ken, the Hoarders guy with 2,000 rats, as having the Best Week Ever.

Sunday night is Hollywood's drunkest gilded night of the year, the annual bestowing of Golden Globe awards upon the golden people who rule the globe. Who will win? Who will lose? Let's go category by category making some predictions.

No need to buy that Ophiuchus nameplate necklace: Your sign hasn't changed, and astronomers talking about astrology is not cool said Dr. Craig Martin to Gawker.TV about yesterday's self-image-shattering news.

Did you know that Steve Guttenberg, Daryl Hannah, Brigitte Nielsen, and David Carradine starred in a British 3D musical? Clearly this is the must-see event of our lifetime. Just watch the trailer. It's magical.

In honor of Wikipedia's 10th anniversary, author Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn) explains why he hates Wikipedia: "Death by pedantry," he calls it in an essay. And: "Go ahead, hordes, intricately mutilate the Lethem entry now." Alright, everyone: go wild!

A Duane Reade with a beer bar in it? That's so Williamsburg hipster Brooklyn and other buzzwords!

Thanks for participating, Kelsey Hawkes, but another ex-girlfriend of Tucson shooter Jared Loughner, Ashley Figueroa, has emerged on television. Figueroa also dated Loughner in high school, and she brings the dirt: "I think he's faking everything."

Now that the eight subjects in the most important sociological experiment of our time are back in their native habitat, it's time for them to play. Of course they go to Karma, where they get soused and cause a riot.

Today on The View, Dr. Jeff Gardere would like you to know that your relationship is doomed if you don't lock it down after 18 months. Seem a bit rushed to you? Well, then you're probably going to die alone.

It's been a month since protests erupted in Tunisia. President Zine El Abidine has fled, the government's collapsed and clashes between protesters and police are sweeping the country. Of course, the requisite cries of "Twitter revolution!" are sweeping the blogosphere.

In your finally Friday media column: Freakonomics is taking its bazillion readers away from the NYT, layoffs loom at the NY Daily News, Hollywood media wars aren't catty enough for Vanity Fair, and PBS must have news on the weekend.

The scariest part about this security camera video is the proof that security guards are not only watching the stupid things you do, but they're sharing it on the internet with multiple angles.

Child abuse infomercial Toddlers & Tiaras has outdone last week's episode—which featured a 2-year-old in a cone bra—by finding a pageant mom to force her screaming, begging, and crying 5-year-old to get her eyebrows waxed on television.

Bobby Moynihan, how we love thee! As if his portrayal of Snooki on SNL wasn't enough, last night's revelation that he spent his 30th birthday painted orange and wearing a poufy-haired wig for the role sealed the deal.

Siiiiigh. Last night's episode of Baywatch: Afternoons was a sleepy one, wasn't it? Everyone just kind of stumbled around Los Angeles and other environs, moaning softly to one another, feeling more listless than ever before.

Wendy Williams took on the *gasp* shocking romance between Natalie Portman and Benjamin WhatsHisName. Notice how her trained-monkey of an audience ooohs and aaahs at every detail as if it hasn't already been analyzed by every tabloid in the country.