Just moments ago, Jersey Shore stars Snooki and The Situation visited Conan O'Brien on The Tonight Show, and it was magical. Nicknames, hair tips, Snooki's desire for a steroid user, The Situation's rap offer and more, after the jump!

You know that feeling when you're straining so hard, you're afraid a fart might slip out? That happened to Olympic weightlifter Elizabeth Poblete at practice today. But with a baby!

What did Rachel Maddow and Fox News president Roger Ailes' say to each other at tonight's White House holiday party for broadcast journalists? Our guess: [Five minutes of awkward silence.] MADDOW: "Well, I guess I'm going to get a drink?"

Tonight, E! aired Maxim's Hottest Moments of 2009. Coming in at Number 3: McSteamy vs. Gawker, in the tale of the sex tape that never was. Watch the full segment after the jump.

There is history behind the current WSJ/NYT spat: The New York Observer today has found a 2008 letter Times Executive Editor Bill Keller wrote in an effort, basically, to make a Journal reporter lose an important award.

It's night two of the epic Sing-off, or The Subtle Train Wreck of 2009. Last night, the show proved to be educational beyond my wildest dreams. Did Nick Lachey and the gang keep it up tonight? HELL YEAH, they did!

Two weeks before the Salahis crashed their way into America's consciousness, a couple of Georgian tourists unwittingly bumbled into an invite-only lunch at the White House. Their story, as reported today by the AP, is adorable.

According to Vogue spokeswoman Susan Portnoy, there was no crazy Vogue holiday party last night, as we had previously speculated. Whoops! Help us avoid further embarrassments by emailing us your holiday party tips. What? Where? When? Who?

Part two of Boston.com's excellent and huge "2009 in Pictures" is up. Worth your time!

A reader sent in the attached screenshot, showing his fruitless attempt to post our guide to enhancing the privacy of your Facebook account. Apparently Facebook found that content to be "abusive."

[Manhattan's sidewalks are best used for two things: walking and smoking. Here we see both happening simultaneously. From Adrie_Mooi's Flickr]

• A look around Provocateur, the new club by ex-Stereo partners Mike Satsky and Brian Gefter that opens this week at the Gansevoort hotel. [GS]
• The latest in the Tavern on the Green saga: It's possible the landmark will be forced to shut down completely on Jan. 1 unless the mayor intervenes. [NYP]
• It looks like street cart sushi is not coming to NYC anytime soon. Alas. [ML]
• Speaking of food carts, let this be a lesson to never cut in line for falafel.
• Gourmet's collection of 3,500 cookbooks has a new home at NYU. [NYT]
• On Regis and Kelly today Anderson Cooper professed "his love for a bakery called 'Milk' [sic] next to a Japanese [sic] restaurant called Momofuku." [SE]

Commenters on Reddit.com banded together to create the largest secret santa gift exchange ever attempted, with 5,000 global participants, three times the prior world record. Even more amazing, the gifts were not entirely terrible!

Gawker's spies are everywhere. And here's a rundown of today's posts on the #stalker page: You saw Stacy London, Ed Westwick, one of the Olsens, Blake Lively and Rhea Perlman.

Photo: Flickr/glark

Mayor Bloomberg flew his gas-guzzling private jet over to Copenhagen yesterday for the UN climate change summit that's now underway. And it already looks like it was well worth the trek: Bloomberg has been inspired! In addition to announcing plans to revisit the concept of congestion pricing, an idea that failed miserably last year, Bloomberg is once again talking up the idea of setting up a giant windmill farm to generate clean energy. This time around, Bloomberg isn't thinking about planting the windmills in NYC. His new idea? Erect them off 15 miles offshore, so they'll be "barely visible from shore" and city residents won't be able whine about how their views have been ruined. All that's left to do is come up with a few billion bucks to pay for it all, and he'll be good to go. [NYDN, NYT]

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

John Mayer took to the airwaves today on Ellen to announce that he is DONE DATING. Sorry ladies, he is off the market. He did not say that he was done having anonymous sex, however. Back on the market!

What are we supposed to watch before our favorite shows return? Winter TV sucks.

The Way We Live Now: Traumatized. Have you heard? Unemployment is traumatic. Also traumatic, according to recession scientists: Shitty vacations, being arrested for your big casino robbery, and contemplating your boss' retirement package.