The cold war is back! Now that Oprah’s gone on a permanent hiatus, Russia is stepping up it’s talk-show game. This audience is just going bonkers, and I don’t use that word lightly. Get some strobes and black lights and I’m there. “And you get a scar! And you get a scar! And you get a scar!” (via Break)

Seeing a full-length computer-animated movie 15 or so years ago was a rare thing indeed – if not a real treat for moviegoers – since not many studios had the budget or access to the utilities that made such animation possible. But sadly, nowadays it seems that the market is flooded by a sh*tstorm of crappy animated films. Quantity over quality is the name of the game in this business and just about anybody with a lackluster idea can stake their claim in the mediocrity-ridden world of computer animation – and that means you! Read COED’s guide to creating a crappy computer-animated film and avoid a straight-to-DVD release all together!

Last week, we had a three way tie for your favorite Song Of The Week (“SOTW”) – Jay Z’s “Dream”, Fitz and the Tantrums “MoneyGrabber”, and Two Door Cinema Club’s “What You Know”. Another week has gone by, as we are slowly but surely closing out the first month of 2011. Hopefully you don’t have to deal with the snowpacalypse that is destroying the northern east coast. I’ve never seen so much snow! But, what are you going to do? I can’t control mother nature, but I can control what goes into my head phones, thus allowing me to bless you with another edition of Al Jones’ Songs of the Week. Read more after the jump!

Carson Daly has committed the ultimate crime: resuming production on Last Call with Carson Daly.
Daly has also defied the ongoing writer’s strike – but that’s hardly his biggest offense.
Does anybody really watch Last Call with Carson Daly? It’s on at some ungodly hour next to weight-loss and fly-fishing gear infomercialsR… Click to read more

Columbia University President Lee Bollinger called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to task. When the terrorist turned President at long last made his appearance at the university, he was introduced to the crowd with a harsh scolding from Bollinger on his country’s human-rights record and his denial of the Holocaust.
Calling him a “petty and c… Click to read more