It is with a heavy heart that we note Kid Nation, the bold experiment in utopia-building bravely undertaken by the finest societal engineers the world of network television has ever seen, ended in tragedy, heartache and utter failure. On last night's season finale, host Jonathan Karsh—whom, we feel obligated to point out, we always believed to be a minion of Satan himself sent to tempt the children with community-eroding worldly pleasures—cackled as the town's Job Board, the monument codifying the ever-shifting caste system that kept CBS Bonanza City from descending into total chaos, was consumed in flames, declaring—please brace yourselves—that there would be no more laws.

At long last, the Most Dramatic Staph-Infection-Related Project Runway Departure Ever aired last night, in which contestant Jack Mackenroth developed a MRSA beneath his mouth (pronounced MER-sa, it stands for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and this is a great place to start if you'd like to learn more about antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections and you!), forcing the Dale Levitski-snugglebum to tearfully excuse himself from the competition.

The television and film writers' strike over Internet pay was supposed to be a boon for Internet-only content creators. But according to CollegeHumor cofounder Ricky Van Veen, that's not been the case.

Without a major publication cover announcing some variation of the sentiment, "I'M GAY," it's sometimes hard to pinpoint the exact moment a celebrity has been outed in the media. Is it when they mention the name of their longtime companion in a humble and moving acceptance speech at an insular industry reception?

You know that war you waged on Christmas? You lost. Last night, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly explained that he knows you're "furious!" and is ready to rub it in your Taliban-loving face.

AOL's search engine Truveo put out a list of the top video searches for 2007. The list includes Will Ferrell's Web classic "The Landlord," an excerpt of which runs above. Here's the list of videos, complete with links, so you don't have to use Truveo anymore.

For American women of a certain age—let's say, somewhere around the Ricki Lake/Rachael Ray generation—the utterance of the very name John Cusack is enough to instantly reawaken first stirrings of celebrity puppy-love ecstasy. Give those women their own talk shows and a captive audience with the boombox-hoisting object of their romantic adolescent fantasies, however, and things can quickly get pretty awkward.

Onset Ventures didn't just send out a Christmas card this year. They also performed the card, a parody of American Idol. Avert your eyes. Onset partner Shomit Ghose penned the lyrics, but none of the singers actually work for the Sand Hill Road firm. (For the record, the performers are Tom Shields of Yieldex, David Binetti of Sentilla, Randy Haykin of Outlook Ventures and IT consultant Tim Salaver — yeah, we haven't heard of them either.) Embedded, above, a parody carol called "It Came Upon a Midnight Beer." Which describes the song, too.

While it looks like comely lifecaster Justine Ezarik, better known as iJustine, who's head over heels for her VC, she's merely lipsynching. The real siren of the piece is Randi Jayne (née Zuckerberg, and yes, she's the Facebook guy's sister) who sings the sultry lyrics. Jayne's fiancé is a VC with Shasta Ventures who served, she says, as her inspiration. Even if this clip, produced by Kevin Rose's Revision3, doesn't approach the level of popularity reached by "Valleyfreude" or the iPhone parody, it's sure to inspire at least one new Valley pickup line: "You can sit on my board anytime."

"The world has changed," Martha Stewart reports. Younger people, she explains, access information via blogs and the Internet. And also "even through their cell phones." What's it mean for America's homemaker? The end of her latest tree-killer product, Blueprint magazine.

Even though she's far too young to have experienced the early-1980s TV adventures of fashionably hirsute, Members Only-sponsored freedom fighter David Hasselhoff and his wisecracking—-but fiercely loyal!—Trans Am during Knight Rider's original, blockbuster run, we still dispatched Defamer videographer Molly McAleer to NBC's Burbank headquarters for today's event announcing the February premiere of the two-hour Rider movie they hope will relaunch the franchise into another series, figuring that she's squarely in the demographic their newfangled primetime product is targeting.

Beloved multihyphenate talent and recent lesbian-wedding-rumor target Queen Latifah stopped by The View today to promote The Perfect Holiday, giving panel moderator Whoopi Goldberg the perfect opportunity to find out what would make for an ideal Latifah Christmas. Offering up the four tried-and-true holiday F's of "food, football, family, and fun," Sherri Shepherd added, "and a fine man wouldn't help!" Although she quickly corrects herself, we're wondering if the noted flat-Earther/Jesus-firster's Freudian slip wasn't perhaps a more accurate assessment of just how low a visit from Hunky Santa comes in on the Queen's wish-list this year.

Sign number million that you are no longer an angry young man: someone in your office suggests that you dress up as Santa Claus at Christmastime. Clearly, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter has always had a broad face and a little round belly that shakes, when he laughs, like a bowlful of jelly. Slap a wig over the traditional winged hairdo and paste on a fake beard, and he's ready to add Bono to his nice list and President George W. Bush to his naughty list! Ho ho ho!

On one of the biggest days of the year for the stock markets, when the Federal Reserve Bank announced its interest rate changes, CNBC's ticker went offline for almost 10 minutes. Ah, I loves me some live television. "Do we have to mention the Fed meeting again? We've had enough of that."

Venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson has a thing for rockets. He once built and launched a miniature replica of the Nazis' V2 rocket, the weapon Hitler used to devastate London during World War II. Well, the early investor in Hotmail, is back at it. Now director of space operations at local blogger Todd Lappin's faux company, Telstar Logistics, Jurvetson and a team traveled to Farmington, California to launch the Telstar Logistics Expediter over the weekend. They strapped a video camera to it, so enjoy the ride. All 5,186 feet of it. So close, and yet so far.

Usually, when PETA is determined to make a dramatic statement about animal abuse, it dispatches Pamela Anderson to march in front of a food-court KFC stall, naked but for the blood-soaked feathers of brutally massacred chickens clinging to her iconic, surgically enhanced curves, a protest that lasts until every potential patron is finally forced to take their business to a nearby Tofu Hut. Today, however, the organization has undertaken a decidedly more ambitious campaign, unloading both outraged barrels on the Olsen Twins, who've made the unfortunate choice to include items containing animal fur in their signature homeless-chic fashion line.

"Here Comes Another Bubble," the charmingly derivative video by the Richter Scales which satirizes Web 2.0 in the style (and to the tune) of Bill Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire," is gone from YouTube. The reason? A copyright claim by an unspecified third party. One possibility: Sony BMG, the record company which owns Columbia, Joel's label; lawyers there might take issue with the use of Joel's composition. YouTube and Sony BMG struck a deal last year, though, so that seems unlikely. Another possibility: Lane Hartwell, the photographer whose photo of yours truly was used, uncredited, by the Richter Scales. Hartwell posted about the incident on Flickr. I sort of wonder if this was all my fault — and not just because I was in the video.

On last night's 'The Hills' finale, it seemed at first that Lauren Conrad would be denied her second chance at going to Paris for Teen Vogue, while Whitney would get to make the trip which would somehow enable her to go home a princess! Princess, whee! But some ex machina intervened and Lauren was allowed to go too. Good thing she's been boning up on her Français: "Bonne nuit..." "Je m'appelle..." Go on, Lauren! Throw some shoes in a suitcase, remind yourself that everything goes with black, release your inhibitions and feel the rain! Oh and also Spencer and Heidi decided to give each other some space again, more.

Last night, the fire alarm went off at the Harper's Bazaar holiday party! But the resulting video was incredibly boring. (I mean, it was like, a fire alarm. And some queen going, "Ooh there's a fire." There wasn't.) But, thanks to the magic of a tragic and lurid dance remix of the native sounds from the video (so glad I spent that $500 on Logic Pro 8!), now it looks and sounds almost sort of exciting and flashy! (Also the picture of the car helps somehow, no?) OMG THE DRAMA. THE CHIC, CHIC DRAMA! (Also, they were totes playing Grace Jones, so kudos.)

Dick Costolo used to be CEO of FeedBurner, a Chicago startup which publishes RSS feeds for websites. But then FeedBurner got acquired by Google. Now Costolo's got a "significant title" at Google, though, as he explains in this you video, "you can't tell by the words in it." Even before FeedBurner, Costolo used to work the standup mic. Here's the best Woody Allen impression you've ever seen. Laugh it up, fellow Googlers, but remember, there's truth in jest. How does Costolo really feel about Google? He posted the video to his blog using Tumblr and Vimeo, not the Google-owned Blogger and YouTube.