Watch as the ever popular British comedian, Ricky Gervais, dissects some of the most well known nursery rhymes and shows us how absurd and morbid they really are.

An Argentine couple today became the first gay couple in all of Latin America to be legally married. Thanks to a constitutional loophole, the two were able to get hitched even though gay marriage is technically outlawed. Congrats! [BBC]

• Closings/bankruptcies: 20-year-old Kitchen Club in Nolita will serve its last meal on New Year's Eve; after 64 years on the UES, Gino will close its doors at the end of January; and Mama Mexico's UWS location has filed Chapter 11.
• A roundup of restaurants opening in the next few weeks. [TONY]
• New York's 2010 "Where to Eat" guide by Adam Platt is online. [NYM]
• Foodies weigh in on the top newcomers/standbys of 2009. [Eater]
• The number of clubs and bars fined for smoking was down this year. [NYP]
• The CEO of Whole Foods gets The New Yorker treatment this week. [NYer]

[A giant multi-colored ice building is one of the glowing sculptures at the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, China, which opened on Christmas Eve. Image via Getty]

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey is everywhere! Why? Because he owns a hippie grocery store chain, is himself hippieish, and also he is a conservative libertarian dude! That makes the things he has to say newsworthy!

Pop music was alive and well this year. From Kings of Leon to Lady GaGa, the year in pop wasn't completely vomit inducing. Here's DJ Earworm (Best. DJ name. Ever) brilliantly mashing it all together for easy consumption.

What are you watching tonight? Let us know in the comments.

Barack Obama cut short a game a golf for a "personal matter" and returned to his family compound on Hawaii in what pool reporters are describing as a "very high speed and dramatic" motorcade trip. An ambulance has been spotted outside their vacation home, but CNN's Ed Henry just reported that the incident concerns "a minor injury with a friend who's travelling with the first family." MSNBC's Chuck Todd adds (see the clip above) that the injury occurred "on the ocean."

Thank god they had the good sense to do this on a slow news day. [Twitpic!]

We are shaking things up—"hipster" style! Our Hipster of the Decade poll has been subject to various schemes and machinations. Now, we're starting a brand new Hipster of the Decade poll with our five finalists. Vote now or die!

It is always a magical time, when the first member of a presidential administration marries his first journalist. Congrats to hipster budget nerd Peter Orszag, who is engaged to ABC's Bianna Golodryga.

New York City personal injury firm, Greenstein & Millbauer, attempts low-budget advertising recognition, substituting a well-known spokes-gecko for a poorly rendered and clumsily oblivious squirrel. If you or a loved squirrel has been injured in an accident, call today.

"'If the Gen Pop doesn't understand how brilliant Arthur Kade is, then "The Year Of The Brand" will be like an explosion of science, sex, and orgasms, that will mold a generation. "Generation K" is upon us.'…Arthur Kade…12/24/09" Awww!

New Year's Eve is so deadly, just walking can kill you. [NYT]

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

Today at Gawker.TV, a preview of The Real World: DC seems tame compared to Jersey Shore, Kathie Lee says something dumb again, 2009's Cinematic achievements, a thief gets whacked with a bicycle, and Eva Longoria and her beau ruin Grease.

[Angelina Jolie rats out a crew member for daring to eat KFC on the set of her upcoming movie Salt, which filmed on the Hudson River today. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

Barack Obama is in Hawaii celebrating the holidays with his family and attempting yet again to forge a long-form birth certificate. And what have pool cameras caught him doing over the long weekend? Having lots of fun!

[December 26. Photo: Flickr/carlmikoy]

This item just needs one committed entrepreneur like Joe Francis to resurrect it. [Copyranter. Click to enlarge]