Don't want to watch the NFL playoffs this year? Then tune into The Purina Incredible Dog Challenge National Finals on January 15th. It features events like Dog Diving, Freestyle Flying Disc, 30-Weave Pole Race and more. Extreme cuteness ahead.

Brandon Beasley woke up one morning with a dream: to break the world record for the most quarters stuck inside one's belly button. In this video, Beasley acts on his vision by placing 20 of the coins into his stomach.

Here's video of a manhole cover exploding in the West Village in the early morning of the West Village.

Ramin Setoodeh, the Newsweek writer who wrote an article about how gay actors can't convincingly play straight last spring and got in huge trouble with all the gay folks, is back poking at that third rail again, defending himself anew.

The body of John Wheeler, a Vietnam veteran and presidential aide to Ronald Reagan and both Bushes, "was found dead in a landfill a few miles from his New Castle, Delaware home this weekend." Police have ruled it a homicide.

The stock market is positively sizzling today, as Wall Street's optimism pushed the Dow to a two-year high. Sounds tempting, eh? Before you wade in with your wallet, consider this short list of "Do's" and "Don'ts." Consider it now!

[On the day her break-up news hit headlines, Mila Kunis dares to smile in public—and to walk in the general vicinity of a male-gendered human! Paparazzi defiance is strong in this one. Image via Pacific Coast News.]

The View is still in re-runs, so we decided to watch its less-successful doppelganger, The Talk, instead. For reasons unknown, Leah Remini and Holly Robinson Peete physically act out what they did for New Year's on top of a table.

CityVille is now the most popular app ever on Facebook, with 84.2 million users. It even beats FarmVille, both in total users and in its ability to make money for evil Facebook gaming empire Zynga.

In the last week of 2010, Agata Olek (known throughout New York City as "Crocheted Olek") took to Wall Street for her latest guerilla-knitting stunt. Inside, video that provides method to her madness—knitting a Wall Street fixture.

Rep. Darrell Issa, a glib car thief who now has subpoena power to investigate the executive branch, has announced his first Obama administration corruption hearings! Among them: investigating the "impact of government hyperregulation on job creation." What the hell?

Fans of quality movies should love the winter since it's when the important prestige pictures—the movies vying for Oscars—litter the cineplex. But who wants to see one depressing movie after the next? It's way too much.

What happens when Hollywood's A-List is still on vacation? Access Hollywood Live books folks like Richard Simmons, which is always an entertaining bet. Today he worked out the show's hosts in his own way and sang a song about ball-dropping.

Repatriated Russian spy Anna Chapman has two hobbies: advocating for Vladimir Putin, and advocating for love. She recently joined a pro-Putin youth group and filmed a sexy Soviet spy parody that doubles as a PSA for falling in love.

In your magical Monday media column: David Carey welcomes himself to Hearst, the NewsBeast gets delayed, Pat Kiernan's website is in danger, David Carr has predictions, and newspaper companies are the stock market's biggest coin flip.

According to stats compiled by the New York Post, there were 121 disciplinary drug busts at uptown nerdfest Columbia last year, compared to 610 at artfag haven NYU. Do NYU kids do more drugs? Possibly. Or, security are just dicks.

A pedestrian was shocked to see a 15-foot explosion blow away a West Village manhole cover the other day. But not too shocked to start filming! Video after the jump, in case you're wondering whether it's safe outdoors, post snowpocalypse.

While the rest of us forgot that television programming really existed over the past few weeks, The Soup was busy with their annual Clipdown of the year's best moments in television. The clip of the year? Here's a hint: Dunka-doo-balls!

[On a yacht in St. Barts, a highly-accessorized Fergie signals a) a passing ship; b) the paparazzi; or c) the deserted island where she just abandoned Will.I.Am. Images via Flynet.]

Sometimes when things are incorrectly put together they actually turn into something awesome. This is one of those times.