Everyone look at this delightful photo! Famous gravelly voiced actor Alec Baldwin and famous wry Canadian newscaster Pat Kiernan, meeting face to face! (Oh, 30 Rock filmed at NY1 today, for some reason.) (And Alec Baldwin's iPhone battery died!) [TwitPic]

Raytheon made an iPhone app for mapping units a combat zone, and for new types of communication, like "friending" other tanks. It'll presumably sell for, like, $50,000 in Apple's military app store, and still earn less than iFart. (Pic)

In your arctic Wednesday media column: the NYT freelancers grow restless, News Corp hands out Christmas bonuses, the Miami Herald is sad, fabulous corrections, and layoffs at TNR.

Sen. Chuck Schumer is really, really sorry he called a US Airways flight attendant a "bitch" yesterday after she ordered him to turn off his cellphone before takeoff: "The senator made an off-the-cuff comment under his breath after the flight attendant walked away. He shouldn't have made it, he regrets it and he has apologized for it." [Fox5]

Last May, billionaire financier Steve Schwarzman made a $100 million donation to the New York Library. The gift, which followed more than a year of blistering press coverage (remember: never let a Journal reporter into your home and allow him/her to interview the household help!) wasn't without one big string: The library's Beaux-Arts main branch on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue had to be renamed in the Blackstone Group co-founder's honor. It's been more than a year since then, but clearly some people have no intention of ever calling it the "Schwarzman Building."

If you're gonna be driving in any nasty winter weather this year, don't be this poor schmuck and put down the eggnog.

Their point: Yahoo made about 1 million euros per worker from Yahoo France alone last year, and used to hype how "it's important to have [locally] concentrated engineering activities... to innovate" in France, where it would base "one of [its] most important centers in Europe." Yahoo France's engineers will now stop working until Yahoo agrees that they shouldn't have to stop working. At least they're fact checking the internet company's hype along the way.

Alisher Usmanov is nicknamed "the hard man of Russia," but he's good at seducing the softies in California's tech community: An investment firm he backs lead a $180 million investment in Zynga, the gaming company that trafficked in scammy ads.

MTV's creatively titled Teen Mom follows around, well, teen moms. It's basically a gigantic PSA to show how awful it is to be a teenager with a baby.

Seed, the AOL News Borg that generates story ideas based on the things that people are looking for on search engines, is up and running. We've had a look at their assignments and there is only one appropriate response: poetry.

"'Square-dancing here isn't really what people imagine it to be,' [Portland hipster Paul] Silveria [friends with many 'tattooed habitués of the punk scene'] says of the hybrid rock and square-dance moves he does." Oh yes it is. [WSJ]

Good news, White People: there will be more of you than of other people for eight more years than previously predicted! The Census Bureau says White People will remain the majority in America until 2050, thanks to 9/11.

Former NYC police commissioner Bernie Kerik was released from jail on November 10 after spending nearly three weeks behind bars for violating the conditions of his bail. He's now under house arrest until he's sentenced on February 18 for the eight felony counts he pleaded guilty to last month, including tax fraud and perjury. But the stress of his three-week stint in the clink—which included a 10-day trip to the psych ward—has clearly taken its toll. He's practically unrecognizable in these new photos that Kerik posted to the Web earlier this week. Click on the photo above to see the very spooky transformation for yourself.

Earlier this week, WSJ editor Robert Thomson took a shot at NYT editor Bill Keller over a letter Keller wrote to an awards committee last year regarding an award-winning WSJ story. Now, we've obtained the WSJ's original response letter.

Roman Polanski gets to spend the holidays (maybe longer) in his Swiss chalet. [ABC]

You know it's going to be a classic episode when in the first twenty seconds on-air, the words uterus and nipples are uttered. That, and the focus on these things resembling futuristic space shuttles attached to Whoopi's feet.

Looking for the perfect mashup of the Charlie Brown christmas special to send around to your family this season? Look no further, as we've rounded up the best the web has to offer.

When something comes along that combines the worst aspects of white people, YouTube videos, soundwaves, and human interaction, it's easy to see that Satan has a sense of humor.

It's been two months since Emanuel Ungaro CEO Mounir Moufarrige made the worst decision of his career and hired a young woman by the name of Lindsay Lohan as the struggling fashion house's "artistic adviser." And now he's out the door. Moufarrige stepped down as CEO today, and while Lohan still has a job for the time being, that may very well change in the near future. Then again, that would only leave her more time to save the universe, so things should work out okay either way. [AP]

This guy must be sweaty or something because there is no other reason to be startled by a deer. A chance encounter with a deer should be like those scenes in Stand By Me or The Queen.