Claire Danes plays the I-will-win-an-award-if-I-play-a-person-with-disabilities card with her new role in the HBO movie Temple Grandin. It looks like another potentially embarrassing stop in a career full of misfires. Still, Danes is worth her weight in street cred. How?

Jon Gosselin needs a job. Boxing needs a savior. Michael Lohan (pictured!) needs someone to fight. Do we smell the sweet aroma of cultural convergence?

The hottest fantasy in Silicon Valley involves a big, hot... tech bubble. Facebook and Yelp supposedly want one, so they can IPO in 2010; even Penthouse publisher FriendFinder Networks wants to go public, despite a sex harassment scandal.

Food Network has finally made a cooking competition show worth watching. After torturing us for years with abysmal characters and judges on The Next Food Network Star, they finally show some balls with The Worst Cooks in America.

A senior spitfire launches a verbal and physical assault on an old man outside a hospital in the London Borough of Croydon. As she swears and swings her pocketbook, one wonders how brutal her cheek pinching must be.

Now that Jay Leno's woeful 10pm talk show experiment has been axed, NBC is faced with a serious vacuum of programming. They're desperate enough to consider an LA-set Law & Order, so what else might they be considering? Let's speculate!

Whoo! Let's all move to Jersey! Medical marijuana just passed the Assembly!

Simon Cowell has just announced that he will in fact step down from American Idol after the upcoming season. Here, a look back at the devilishly handsome Idol judge in the hot-seat as a contestant on a British game show.

Every day we come across so many great things on the internet. Here's our favorite links and webjunk that we came across today.

Have you heard about Office 10? You haven't!?!! Well, lean back and let this two minute long pun fest teach you absolutely nothing about Microsoft's latest suite of office software. Warning: easy jokes and hard sells ahead.

At today's White House press briefing, desperate reporters begged for a Presidential press conference. But Robert Gibbs didn't want the press corps calling the president "overexposed" again. So they held a little poll!

"The New Jersey Legislature approved a measure on Monday that would make the state the first in the region and the 14th in the nation to legalize the use of marijuana for medical reasons." [NYT]

It was show and tell today when Wendy demonstrated her own invention: pool hats! So next time, don't worry about your wig while poolside— just keep 'em off and slap on this trashy hat with hair extensions sewn in!

It is the new year which means it's time for you to go on an unsuccessful diet, America! Let us survey the landscape of sure-to-fail fitness ideas rolling out (ha) soon. Select a few and promptly abandon them!

Season one-billion of American Idol hasn't even started yet, and already we're thinking about the end. Simon Cowell, beloved grumpy crumpet judge, will leave at the end of the season to judge the similarly-themed British import, The X Factor.

We stumped you all with our pretty difficult Freeze Frame today. Click through for the answer.

Today at Gawker.TV, Piers Morgan is a creep, The Dana Carvey Show is reborn, Charles Barkley impersonates Alicia Keys, Lindsay Lohan shows her charitable side, and we take a look at the lessons to be learned from The Late Shift.

It's official: Jeffrey Deitch is the new LA MOCA director. See Kelsey Keith's backgrounder here.

• NBC finally confirmed yesterday that it's canceling Jay Leno's 10pm show and moving him back to late-night. Whether Conan O'Brien stays at the network or jumps to Fox remains an open question for now. [NYT, TMZ, NYP]
• More bad news for NBC: The network expects to lose money broadcasting the Winter Olympics from Vancouver later this year, which would be a first. [NYT]
• Sarah Palin has signed on to join Fox News as a contributor. Exactly what she'll be doing there—and how much she'll get paid—is unclear. [NYT]
• In case you missed the front-page Times story about Fox News CEO Roger Ailes yesterday, he makes a ton of money for Rupert Murdoch, doesn't get along much with Murdoch's kids, and hates liberals. Oh, and he's armed. [NYT]
• TV news: NBC has ordered six new drama pilots for the fall now that the network is moving Jay Leno out of primetime; CBS reports it's close to signing David Letterman and Craig Ferguson to new contracts; and Fox is renewing Glee for a second season, which should come as a surprise to no one.
• Simon Cowell wasn't kidding when he said he was leaving American Idol? He'll depart the show after the current season to host The X Factor on Fox. [LAT]
• As many as 1,200 AOL employees could get pink-slipped this week. [NYT]
• Avatar continues to rake it in. The movie was No. 1 for a fourth straight weekend and has now grossed $1.34 billion around the world. [MTV]
• Erica Hill is saying goodbye to CNN and is joining CBS News. [NYDN]
• Tucker Carlson's politics site, The Daily Caller, launched today. [WaPo]
• Did NBC try to poach Barbara Walters last year? Seems so. [HP]

Last night's episode of The Cleveland Show guest-starred Jane Lynch as Roberta's teacher. She challenges her to wear a fat suit to see if she can get by without her looks. Roberta accepts and assumes the name "Tyra Obama."