Thanks to the media-hating GOP, the poor saps who cover Congress will be spending Christmas Eve in the Capitol watching Communism happen in the form of a vote on the healthcare bill. Their White House counterparts will be in Hawaii.

Seeing as how many of you will be away from your computers the next few days, I wanted to let you know there's a newish, niftier version of Gawker's site for iPhones (maybe Blackberries, too?) if you go to "m.gawker.com"

Who does this cat think s/he is?! Riding around on a self-cleaning device, taking swipes at anything that crosses its path. It's pretty safe to say that cats are the jerks of the domesticated animal kingdom.

Nobody correctly answered today's Freeze Frame. Click through for the answer.

Today at Gawker.TV, time lapse footage of the weekend's snowpocalypse filmed in Brooklyn, graffiti outside of Serge Gainsbourg's Paris home, Charlie Gibson's sign-off, more "Little People" shows on TLC, and Kathie Lee Gifford once again says proves her ignorance on-air.

The Billionaire Gentleman's Agreement that allowed Mayor Bloomberg to buy his third term? It is now concluded. Thanks for your help making it happen, everyone!

The Way We Live Now: Shabby chic. The shabby part is just the part about us being so broke we pawn our gold. The chic part is we do it in Beverly Hills. Where we've kicked out the poors!

[Don't adjust your set, it appears that Gwen Stefani was wearing a coat fashioned after TV color bars while traipsing around London with her son this weekend. Image via Pacific Coast News]

Yea, we know the word "hipster" is played out. That's exactly why we need to pick a Hipster Champ of the past decade. So we can lay the whole damn thing to rest. Your candidates, below. Vote. If you want.

This hasn't been an easy year for Condé Nast (or any magazine publisher for that matter). But the company now has a bit more bad news to contend with in the form of a hacker who gained access to Condé's network this fall and swiped 1,100 files from GQ, Vogue, Teen Vogue, and Lucky, a number of which were later posted online. Condé isn't sure who was responsible for the breach, although it's since managed to get several of the sites that posted the files—a list that includes five alternate covers for GQ's December issue—to take them down. (One of the blogs that posted some of the offending content, fashionzag.blogspot.com, still has thumbnails of the five covers posted, although the links to the larger images no longer work.) Even more concerning, though, is that Condé Nast reports the hacker continues to have access to its network, and it can't guarantee more material won't be posted on the Web in the future. The company filed a copyright lawsuit against the unknown hacker(s) last week; the suit appears after the jump.

According to Talking Biz News, editors at Reuters killed an investigation into embattled hedge fund manager Steven Cohen after Cohen called its CEO to complain.

Seed, the AOL Media Borg that will destroy journalism, is still alive, despite our best efforts. Today we launch another missile of creativity at its hull. It asks what to do with mismatched plates, and we respond with a poem.

People still don't believe we come from these guys? Here is further proof. This monkey can play Pac Man— and he isn't that bad at it. Somewhere Charles Darwin is saying "I told you so."

Remember that Dove "Timelapse Beauty" video? Where the plain looking woman was photoshopped to look pretty? Well this is like that but with more fake tan, poofy hair and less dignity. A lot less.

Divorce lawyers in England claim that Facebook is cited as a factor in up to 20 percent of the divorce petitions filed in the UK these days. [Telegraph]

Little Chocolatiers is a new TLC show about a married couple who run a third-generation chocolate shop. As cute as the show looks, it leaves us wondering why TLC won't vary up their programming much beyond "people with physical ailments."

If you insist on chopping down your own Christmas tree this year, make sure it's not going to fall on and crush your home.

Brooke Astor's son Anthony Marshall has been sentenced to one to three years in prison.

Private jets are now "making a comeback," according to the Wall Street Journal. One thing that isn't: sampling caviar and champagne while in flight. "I'm here to tell you no one is eating lobster," says the owner of a catering company that supplies the corporate jet industry. "A quick turkey box lunch to slam down while flying to meetings is the order of the day." Let's all take a moment to commend the CEOs who are foregoing life's little pleasures and bravely soldiering on regardless, shall we? [WSJ]

The Box is opening in Moscow! Amy Sacco is still going strong in London. Looks like Manhattan's party scene is better in other countries than here. But get ready, along with the "new Beatrice," 2010 is bringing a reopened Bungalow 8.