Eager for work in the financial industry, an MBA student fired off a PowerPoint presentation entitled "9 Reasons Why You SHOULD Hire Me As Your Investment Banking Analyst." And, because, "Passion Is Business," she reportedly landed several interviews.

Happy Chanukah, everyone! We present to you the Girl Talk of the a capella Jewish community. Please enjoy I Light It, a Chanukah-themed remix based on the music of Justin Bieber, Kanye West and Enrique Iglesias. Mazel Tov!

In your drenched Wednesday media column: the NYT pay wall draws near, a royal wedding can't sell magazines any more, Anderson Cooper reams an old Texas man, James Hibberd moves to EW, and Romenesko is all weird now.

Former Obama budget director Peter Orszag is in "advanced talks" to join Citigroup's investment banking division.

Last night's episode of Raising Hope featured Jason Lee as an old rockstar who hasn't yet given up his frayed t-shirts and leather pants. It was a dream come true for Burt—until he realized Smokey's an ass.

Maulik Pancholy (who you should recognize as Jack's assistant on 30 Rock or Weeds' Sanjay) appeared on Running Wilde playing himself. The premise: convincing Emmy that he's a doctor. The problem: The only TV show Emmy watches is 30 Rock.

Finally, our musical merry misfits got back to what they do best last night: singing, dancing, competing, and having a whole lot of drama. Has the second season of Glee finally found its arc? Damn, I hope so.

This morning on the Early Show Heather Cabot, Yahoo.com's Web Life Editor, stopped by to announce the website's Top 10 Searches of 2010, begging the question, "Who the hell uses Yahoo! for internet searches?"

It is time to check in on American Apparel, our most favorite near-bankrupt beauty-positive spandex-based fashion retailer. Employees are stealing! Employees are emailing us funny stories! And AA is trying to class up its porn!

Barack Obama pledged in March to expand offshore oil drilling. Shortly thereafter, BP spilled 172 million gallons of oil into the water. So now drilling on both coasts and the eastern Gulf of Mexico will be re-banned for years. Hooray!

Anne Hathaway has had a busy week. She's the star of Love and Other Drugs which opened last weekend. On Monday, it was announced that she will co-host the 83rd Academy Awards. More »

Alexis Neiers, famed member of a band of kids who robbed famous actors (and star of a pretty awful reality show) was arrested in Los Angeles for possession of black tar heroin, TMZ says. Her story just keeps getting rosier.

"I'm an old fat guy now, but I'd kick his ass," said Barkley, a personal friend of Obama's, in response to whether or not he'd win in a game of one-on-one. Apparently, Barack Obama has a tendency to play one-handed.

Star accuses Britney Spears' boyfriend of giving her a black eye, and Radar has audio of a voice they say is Britney's talking about it. Both outlets' source? Jason Alexander, the guy Britney accidentally married in Las Vegas in 2004.

The amazing aeronautical black box, able to withstand high temperatures and crash velocities. But how exactly does does it work? Watch and find out!

Would it really be like "opposite land" or is it happening as you read this? NSFW

In 2003, Monserrate Luna boarded a flight in NYC headed to San Juan, Puerto Rico. When she bit into her chicken meal, she says, there was a lizard in it. She sued. We got a copy of her insanity-inducing deposition.

For the first time ever, we laughed while watching Lopez Tonight, but it was all thanks to Bill Cosby. Watch Cosby describe Hell as a place "where there's a whole lot of laughing and nothing's funny." Sound familiar, Lopez?

Good news, educators: the book-banners are more organized than ever! Instead of lone nuts calling for books to be banned, now it's national groups of nuts, like the Parents Against Bad Books in Schools. And what makes a book "bad?"

[Once-was Kate Gosselin outside her New York hotel. Photo via Splash]