This has been the Decade of the Douchebag. There's no denying it. Though we've retired the term, we're bringing it back to identify the douche who was the douchiest. You get the chance to pick our winner.

Joel Madden slammed Kesha's "jacked" sounding single; a Wired editor said Roger Ebert's copy was sloppy; and David Carr doth protested about his diss too much. The Twitterati bled their rivals.

Heartbreaking Facts About TV Characters of the Day: Grizz Chapman needs a kidney transplant. Dr. Oz welcomed his guest with open arms— yet managed to to call him "a big strong moose" and put a damper on our afternoons.

In 1987, Frankie Avalon and Annette Funnicello, beloved icons of wholesome 60s teenybopper films, reunited to go Back to the Beach. Pee-wee Herman met them there to sing a blast from their past and terrify viewers with his mania.

WWE hosted its sixth awards show last night in Texas. It was three hours long and hosted by Dennis Miller. He alternated between terrible one-liners and rich diatribes on global warming. Also, shirtless wrestlers at podiums: Very bizarre.

• Closures: Design magazine I.D. is shutting down. And while Editor & Publisher revealed last week it's folding, there's now a small chance it'll survive. [E&P]
• More bad news: The New Republic laid off some staff today. [Politico]
• Diane Sawyer's farewell to GMA last week and George Stephanopoulos's debut on Monday both did okay, but neither one topped Today. [NYO, NYT]
• More TV news: CNN's ratings continue to suck; Oprah's Obama special scored big ratings; and Oprah pal Nate Berkus is getting his own show, as rumored.
• Golf Digest says it has no regrets about its new Tiger Woods cover. Which is a tad convenient since it went to press before the scandal broke. [Us]
• Men's Health editor Dave Zinczenko got snubbed by his bosses today. [DF]
• Paramount plans to start selling movie clips on the Web next week. [NYT]
• As for plans to create the "Hulu of magazines," it isn't going to be easy. [PC]
• The guy who stalked ESPN's Erin Andrews pleaded guilty today. [AP]
• Advertisers are totally loving Lady Gaga right now. Her "Bad Romance" video managed to squeeze in ten product placements in under five minutes. [LAT]
• Golden Globe noms were announced today. Just in case you missed it. [NYM]

[Robert Downey Jr wonders why his noggin feels so warm while leaving the Sherlock Holmes after party in London with a burning hat. He's not actually on fire, but the hat is still flaming. Image via Pacific Coast News]

Today at Gawker.TV,we learned a lot from The Sing-Off, the best Tiger Woods parody video we've seen, a local news anchor laughs about murder, another Intervention episode for the record books, and Barbara gets the skinny from Snoop Dogg.

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

Oral Roberts has finally been killed by God for not raising enough money.

A new survey involving 1,000 women in Britain finds that women are much more likely to remember the first pair of shoes they bought than the name of the first guy they kissed. [Telegraph via The Cut]

For months, the evidence mounted and mounted that James Cameron's long awaited Titanic follow-up was going to be the biggest let down since Phantom Menace. No one wanted to believe that more than we did.

According to Fast Company, F+W Media is shuttering I.D., the venerable design magazine. There's a sad logic to it, since half of I.D.'s readership consisted of magazine art directors, most of whom have been laid off.

Ever since Raj Rajaratnam was arrested in October for allegedly operating a vast insider trading ring, lawyers for the hedge fund founder have been busy pointing out flaws in the government's case. Now they'll get to see how it plays with a jury. A federal grand jury formally charged Rajaratnam with five counts of conspiracy and six counts of securities fraud this afternoon. [BN]

This is the story of a diva named Pedro Martell. Martell—a Mariah Carey fanatic—is now a rising YouTube star, thanks to his new Beyoncé video. Which is a shame, because there's much more to love about him.

Press the Smart On™ button on the new LG X120 Netbook and everything you use on a regular basis—Internet, photos, chat, and music—will appear in seconds. Seriously, it's that easy. Smart, eh?

We were assaulted by a drunk asshole at a Christmas party last night, so we missed the Did You Hear about the Morgans? premiere. Luckily fictional freelancer Betsey Morgenstern doesn't get invited to anything, so she was around to cover.

The Copenhagen summit has brought the global warming debate to a head, and the skeptics have the upper hand because Al Gore made a math error, scientists wrote mean e-mails, icebergs won't destroy Australia, and it's snowing in Copenhagen.

Many thanks to the faithful reader in Australia who directed us to this article in The Cairns Post which has some totally vital info on the whereabouts of media mogul Barry Diller's $200 million sailboat, EOS. It's located in lovely Cairns right now—as you probably could have guessed—along with Diller's crew of "two chefs, three engineers, nine deck crew and captains and stewardesses." But it won't be docked there for long! The paper reports that Diller will be climbing aboard the 304-foot beast in January when it sets sail for the Solomon Islands. [The Cairns Post]

Snoop Dogg is everywhere. You can't puff on a fatty blunt without the smoke hitting a TV with Snoop's face plastered all over it. On The View, he played the loving husband, but Barbara wanted to know about his bitches.