The CEO of federally-subsidized electric car company Tesla flew his private jet to Washington at least 12 times in about as many months. Oh, Elon Musk: You can't pull this crap when you're selling environmental friendliness and financial superiority.

Tonight we're tuned into Man Vs. Wild, American Idol, and Tosh.0. What are you watching tonight? Let us know in the comments.

A hero legislator in Virginia's House of Delegates sponsored a bill that finally bans the practice of forcibly implanting microchips in humans. Delegate Mark Cole (R-Fredericksburg) is not some mere privacy advocate: he is saving us from the antichrist.

Sometimes all it takes to pull a room together is a teardrop filled with frog eggs, or a weird art-deco jazz guitarist figurine. In this clip, ugly furniture gets the LOL treatment.

Funny on one hand, but on the other it hits a little too close to home - maybe it's just because I'm from New Jersey, where design sensibilities go to die.

[Photo via Flickr]

[Katie Holmes and her daughter brave the snow in New York today; image via Splash]

Author Steve Almond self-publishes a book of essays that he's made available only at the Harvard Bookstore and his readings, in a fist-shaking move at Evil Corporate Publishing. Of course, he still has a Random House book contract, so.

Coming in March: Poster Boy: The War of Art. The kid got a book deal, huzzah! You might say it's "too soon," but is it really? Hopefully the law's not taking all his money, yet. Exciting publisher's boilerplate description below.

Just a few years after Time declared you the person of the year, the fashion industry has realized that we live in a new age of egalitarianism. Thus, some major Fashion Week shows will be streamed live on the internet.

Yesterday Tumblr founder David Karp wrote that he and his girlfriend were going to try wearing Fitbits during sex so they could calculate their physical exertion. Get ready for the brave new world of truly constant life-updating.

Molly Shannon goes Glee, Levi Johnston may head to Desperate Housewives, the cast of Jersey Shore are heading south, and more.

• The New York Times Co. actually turned a profit in 2009. Glory be! [NYT]
• Did you read (or hear about) Playboy's new interview with John Mayer, the one in which he managed to make himself look like even more of an idiot? Mayer's been busy today apologizing for his comments, not surprisingly.
• American Idol's ratings were up big last night. It's the Ellen effect. [TVG]
• Get ready to see ads on magazine covers; it's so happening. [AdAge]
• Another symptom of the times: While Gourmet didn't survive the great magazine meltdown, Food Network Magazine continues to be a big hit. [NYP]
• Since MTV no longer has any connection to music whatsoever, it's changed its logo. The "music television" bit is gone. And the logo has put on weight. [BC]
• The next Spider Man installment—coming July 3, 2012, just in case you happen to have your calendar in front of you—will be in 3D. Naturally. [THR]
• Speaking of things in the far-off future, Tom Cruise has signed on to star in Mission Impossible IV (coming May '11!). And in what will undoubtedly come as the best news you'll hear all week, Celine Dion returns to Las Vegas in '11.

Marc Jacobs, the prancing prince of fashion week, is spouting off about how his show is "not going to have celebrities," because they're "boring." Sorry, Marc, but that is bullshit. You are too reliant on stars to quit them now.

Europe's so weird. Ad agencies in Belgium teamed together and went on "strike" to protest the fact that clients were asking too many ad agencies to pitch their business. Huh! So, temporary moratorium on sexxxy Belgian porn ads. [Adfreak]

Last night Gawker.TV interns and employees got together with our commenters and friends for a rambunctious night of socializing, drinking, and having a grand old time. Emphasis on the drinking.

In our continuing campaign to stop worrying and learn to love Valentine's Day, we bring you the advice of Carrie Brownstein, reprinted from her NPR blog Monitor Mix, on how to enjoy the holiday no matter what your romantic status.

Remember that awesome Snickers commercial, starring Betty White and Abe Vigoda, that aired during the Super Bowl? Well, a new one—featuring Aretha Franklin and Liza Minnelli—is about to be rolled out. And it's good. Really good! Video, inside.

Congratulations to secretfatkid for being the first person to answer today's Freeze Frame. Click through for the answer.

Today at Gawker.TV, the wife of George Stephanopolous sings him a sexy happy birthday, an Always Sunny friend shows up on Lost, Newt Gingrich lies, the un-aired Teen Mom footage, and Brian Kilmeade wants to get freaky with mannequins.

Charlie Wilson's war is over. Wilson, the Texas congressman whose love of booze, cocaine, women, and secret CIA-run wars supporting Osama bin Laden's friends in Afghanistan was memorialized in a film starring Tom Hanks, has died of a heart attack.