In this informative video Bootsy Collins explains the basic bass funk formula.

Notorious for its comically shocking advertisements, Bianco Footwear imagines extreme up-selling with its commercial, Hands Are So Last Year. The message is clear despite the language barrier, but beware: never match your shoes to your other shoes.

It's certainly not a best-case scenario, but in the face of all fears, the end of Jay Leno's ratings free fall doesn't seem bad. At last there are signs the NBC's Jay Leno experiment may have turned a corner.

Today at Gawker.TV, The Sun spoofs Apple commercials, Kelly Cutrone drops the F-Bomb on morning television, a concert-goer finds his seat by way of everyone in the audience, and we choose the best Price Is Right flip-outs of all time.

Last April, Giant magazine was targeted by (someone posing as?) rival XXL, which sent out letters to Giant advertisers warning them the mag would be going out of business. Denials all around! In May: another rumor denied. Today: Giant folds.

Explosions, tidal waves, and marshmellow men abound in this incredible montage set to Rhapsody in Blue.

• Another ex-Post staffer has filed a salacious lawsuit against the paper. [HP]
• Yet another magazine is no more. Giant gave up the ghost today. [Gawker]
• Rupert Murdoch's son, Lachlan Murdoch, is teaming up with media investor Jimmy Finkelstein to bid on a handful of media trade titles owned by Nielsen, including The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, and AdWeek. [NYT]
• The guy who runs Clubplanet.com says that if Maxim's owners don't sell him the mag, it will go bust by March. Maxim isn't impressed. [P6, AdAge]
• One sector of the magazine biz that's doing well: Airline publishing! [WSJ]
• Did BusinessWeek just replace Maria Bartiromo with Charlie Rose? [BI]
• The good news for Jay Leno: His ratings seem to have stabilized in recent weeks. The bad: More people are watching shows they recorded on their DVRs rather than tune into NBC's misguided 10pm experiment. [THR, NYP]
• New Moon topped the box office once again this weekend, as expected. [THR]

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

Dragon Age: Origins has taken the terribly awkward genre of videogame dialog and melded it with gay romance and, also gay sex scenes. Who, in these United States, could possibly object to foisting this content on teenaged boys?

1969 was a great year for television: the moon landing, premiere of Sesame Street, and some amazing music. Here, we take a look at the year and compiles the top 12 televised performances of 1969.

If you needed a reminder to never step foot in any establishment co-owned by Jay-Z and/or to avoid Atlantic City at all costs, here you have it. [TMZ]

Kelly Kutrone, the best part of The City, debuts her Bravo reality show February 1.

In 1937 fascists devastated the town of Guernica with aerial bombings executed by the Nazi Luftwaffe. Picasso's painting Guernica was his reaction the tragedy. The painting has now been made into a 3D video.

What is our nation's very serious opposition party up to, these days? Oh, just staging mock trials in Congress using "evidence" they found in ACORN's trash!

Sit back and enjoy nearly three minutes of both male and female models falling on the runway.

Barack Obama said he wanted torture photos released, but then he changed his mind. The ACLU won its suit to have them released, but now the Supreme Court is sending that victory back to the Second Circuit to be reconsidered.

Because there are no more pressing matters of political import to attend to, the House Homeland Security Committee now plans to hold a hearing later this week into how Tareq and Michaele Salahi slipped by security to attend last Tuesday's state dinner, and some lawmakers are calling for criminal charges to be filed against the fameseeking couple. But what does fellow fameseeker and etiquette guru LuAnn de Lesseps make of Salahis? "I think the people that would go that far in order to be a celebrity really lack integrity and class," she tells Daily Intel. "I think they get nothing out of it. I mean, I think that they make themselves look bad. They're setting a really bad example of behavior." And you were thinking that marrying an elderly count in order to adopt a noble title was in poor taste! [NYM/Daily Intel]

Congratulations, leftist internet! Today marks the first time that Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall's little political blog that could, handles the in-town White House pool report. They grow up so fast.

From the vault: The Grass Roots perform "Live For Today (Summer Love)" on Jimmy Durante's television show in 1967. Almost 40 years later he would go on to become our favorite creepy-old-man on NBC's The Office. Watch him rock out below.