There's something incredibly unsettling about this video of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin singing a wooden, hand-in-pocket rendition of Fats Domino's 'Blueberry Hill' for some charity event in front of a bunch of old actors (Goldie Hawn! Kurt Russell!) and what appear to be Russian politicians and glitterati, all competing to appear the most enthusiastic for this Potemkin Village-ass display.

He looks like he'd rather be anywhere but on that stage, and the soulless song is peppered with tinny synth trumpet, while an actual trumpet player stands behind him clapping awkwardly.

You're a young girl wandering the streets of Boston clad in neon yellow and purple. Wherever will you go to school? Why, Emerson College, silly! Home to a seemingly endless train of emphatic Lady Gaga fans, fabulous homosexuals, and coiffed young hipsters with no qualms about clawing their way into frame.

Just think of everything you could do while you're there. You could join the Quidditch team! Or write copy for the school newscast! Or shoot confetti out of your sleeves into the faces of passersby!

College truly is a magical time in a girl's life. Choose wisely, ya snowflake. These are your golden years.

There's a lot of kooks in New York City. It feels like it was just yesterday when I introduced you to the bearded lady circus performer/college professor and Anna Dove, a real-life cat lady, but for pigeons. We can now add JillAnne, a female "entrepreneur" who turned a studio on the Lower East Side into a kind-of store?

With stark walls, a sad curtain, and a pole dead center in the middle of the floor, surrounded by homemade greeting cards, JillAnne knows there must be a better way to draw customers into her little Allen Street Mom 'n Pop shop. In fact, she's discovered the very best way a small business owner can do just that: LIVE POLE DANCING.

See? That's why that pole is there! While you browse her personally-designed greeting cards, say for the perfect way to say Merry Christmas to Nana or Happy Pole Dancing (there's a card for that), JillAnne (one word, no last name, like any pole-dancing, greeting-card designing diva), dressed ready for a cardio workout -- albeit in chunky heels -- will be right behind you, straddling that pole with thighs that could easily crack your chestnuts. She also plays bass guitar, too, so that explains the bass guitar hanging on the wall.

JillAnne claims that when women spot her pole-dancing from outside the window, they smile and applaud. What these women likely don't realize is that, if they just came in an dropped a cool $50, they'd get a "personal pole dance," which is the same thing as if you were just walking around inside, looking for a greeting card, but significantly more awkward.

Barbie has come a long way since her Malibu dream house. This year she officially traded in the pink convertible for a laptop and binary code t-shirt and become a computer engineer. And since we're all about celebrating dolls on the internet, we applaud Barbie's endeavor. What better way to celebrate her success in the world of Internet than with a little voting on the 2010 Urlies and a giveaway?

If you want to welcome Computer Engineer Barbie into your home, here's what you need to do:

YouTuber penguinz0 is frustrated. He's playing QWOP, a flash game where you try to run the 100-meter dash despite the fact that your little Olympian dude is virtually impossible to control. Fun. Kinda. Until you hit the rage wall. And then plummet into the self-esteemless canyon of, "WHY CAN'T I MAKE HIM RUN!?! IT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE I WASN'T HUGGED AS A BABY!"

Penguinz's hilarious commentary keeps it light, though, and it's nice to have his voice in your head as you struggle through the game. Just remember you're not alone. And your mom probably loves you. Probably.

(Warning: strong language.)

If you've got a commenter account on any Gawker Media site, change your password. Gawker Media's entire commenter database was hacked on Saturday by a group called Gnosis, and over 250,000 passwords were posted on The Pirate Bay.

To make matters worse, Gnosis posted a link to the files on Gawker's homepage. Hundreds of people have now downloaded them. The entire database of 1.2 million or so usernames and passwords is also online, just waiting for someone to decrypt the rest – with widely available software, says a source.

Below, we'll explain what everyone needs to worry about, and how Urlesque editor Nick Douglas took over Nick Denton's Flickr account.

[UPDATE: Read Gawker's FAQ.]

Welcome to 'Feat of the Week,' in which our pals over at the Universal Record Database (where everyone can set a world record) hand-select one awesome world record to highlight.

A furrowed brow is normally a sign of displeasure, but for Londoner Steve Stretton, a creased forehead equals festive joy. On December 1, Steve set the URDB world record for the Longest Time Holding A Holiday Gift Tag In A Forehead Crease. He managed to keep the tag between his eyebrows for one minute and 24.10 seconds, even while drinking coffee and talking about the tickling sensation he was experiencing. Watch the magic below.

Thanks for the caption, Rose!

• photo via:// Ed Schipul

When I saw this video of Katie the Hamster, who hops and dances on a laptop like she's trying to climb the screen, I was all "NEW HAMPSTER DANCE." So I set Katie to the music from the Hampster Dance.

We're all gonna make a million dollars.

This week, Eliot, Kelly and Cole were graced with the presence of Leah Taylor and Russ Marshalek, Editor and Social Media manager of Flavorpill, respectively (and they brought us cheap wine, so we're BFF's now).

Skyping in from just outside of Buffalo, NY was Joe, himself a blogger and internet lover at The Daily Debris.

Leah and Russ filled us in on what it's like to promote events across New York and beyond, as well as the alleged cultural relevance of Ke$ha, all before discussing the extensive list of 100 Gifts for 100 Cultural Icons curated by the editors at Flavorwire, Flavorpill's excellent daily blog.

WARNING: Things get a little NSFW when Justin Bieber comes into the conversation, weirdly enough.

Watch, download and subscribe to this week's episode below.

'Tis the season for "best of" countdowns, and Gawker.tv's delivering with their massive Top 100 Videos of 2010.

So if you're feeling a little nostalgic this afternoon and want to take a walk down memory lane with the memes of yore, here's your chance. Plus, if you spot something in the countdown you don't recognize, you can check out their comprehensive link list and it'll lead you straight to the YouTube video.

Mazel tov!

Operation Payback is yesterday's news. Today, it's all about Operation Leakspin. Anonymous, the vigilante group commonly associated with 4Chan's /b/ message board, fired their "Low Orbit Ion Cannons" at VISA and Mastercard, temporarily taking down the sites of the two major credit card companies. Today, they've switched from trying to disrupt anti-Wikileaks sites to trying to spread the info from Wikileaks' secret diplomatic cables in as many ways as possible. This new tactic is called Operation Leakspin.

The idea behind Leakspin is to pick out some of the less-publicized Wikileaks info and post it in innocuous locations, in YouTube videos and on message boards. Videos with popular keywords like "Bieber" could turn out be Anonymous members reading from the secret diplomatic cables. Why the sudden change in tactics? Because the mission all along has been to keep the Wikileaks documents online. "They don't fear the LOIC. They fear exposure," says the Op Leakspin poster.

Some sites are suggesting that Operation Leakspin may be a response to the arrest of a Dutch teenager who was one of the coordinators of Operation Payback. This is believed to be the first arrest of anyone involved in the DDoS attacks on Visa and Mastercard, and it may have scared some members of Anonymous away from using site takedown tactics, and inspired the idea of leaking more information instead – which, at least for now, is legal.

"Hello World. We are Anonymous. What you do or do not know about us is irrelevant. We have decided to write to you, the media, and all citizens of the free world at large to inform you of the message, our intentions, potential targets, and our ongoing peaceful campaign for freedom."

So begins a recent manifesto sent to various blogs and news sources by Anonymous, talking about their support for Wikileaks. Who are these people?