The impossibly rich, handsome, and athletic Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are busy twins. They’re publishing party photography sites, taking courses at Oxford, and rowing in preparation for the 2012 London Olympics. Oh, and they’re still fighting Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook, as they have been for six years now.

A mansion in the country isn’t a bad place to spend Christmas, especially when you’re a restless, internationally alleged criminal whose most recent bed was in prison. As Newsweek reveals in its newly published photo exposé, Julian Assange spent his holiday season in a calm, relaxing, and at times adorable fashion.

As 2010 comes to a close, the media industry is taking its annual breather to reflect upon all the things it had to cover in the past year. Katie Couric, in her CBSNews.com review of 2010, highlighted the controversy surrounding the Park51 project. “The bigotry expressed against Muslims in this country has been one of the most disturbing stories to surface,” she told her panel.

How does one rack up misdemeanor counts of “desecration, theft or sale of venerated objects, abuse of a corpse; institutional vandalism, theft, receiving stolen property, disorderly conduct, and harassment” in one day? By robbing a dead boy’s casket. The 37-year-old Jody Lynn Bennett was at Rairigh Funeral Home in Arizona when he saw a Game Boy in the casket of Bradley D. McCombs Jr., a 17-year-old boy who died on Christmas morning. Bennett snatched the Game Boy and waltzed out of the building.

If radio really is the theater of the mind, then WGN-AM listeners were given a rather unfortunate show recently. As the station interviewed Congressman Danny Davis to discuss his campaign to become Chicago’s next mayor, the conversation was punctured by one of the most distinct sounds known to ears: that of a toilet flushing.

“I’m not going to let you guys take a picture of me with my shirt off,’’ President Obama said to reporters earlier this year, during a trip to Florida’s Gulf coast. And Sheryl Gay Stolberg reports in the New York Times that the ban on photographing the Commander-in-Chief’s naked torso is also in effect in Hawaii: “The White House gave the press pool traveling with the president strict instructions that there would be no long lenses or other sneaky attempts to take pictures of a shirtless leader of the free world.”

Some hold WikiLeaks responsible for committing crimes, while the transparency-obsessed Julian Assange says his organization merely commits journalism. But one pioneering online soul thinks that WikiLeaks is producing something else entirely: poetry.

“I’m mad as hell,” the fed-up Howard Beale famously says in Network, “And I’m not going to take this anymore!” One 61-year-old Floridian (it’s always Florida, isn’t it?) took the sentiment to his own logical extreme when he called the police on the media. “I’m looking for TV news to be arrested,” Lawrence Gauthier told an unamused 911 dispatcher. A close listen to the phone call reveals Orlando’s NBC affiliate WESH—or, as Gauthier calls it, “channel 2 news”—to be the primary offender. WESH has yet to be apprehended.

Do you love books with mystery? Intrigue? Alleged romance? Then you’ll want to pick up the upcoming page-turner from Julian Assange, who signed a $1.3 million deal to pen an autobiography. And it looks like the proceeds will go to his pet cause, WikiLeaks; Assange said in an interview, “I don’t want to write this book, but I have to. I have already spent £200,000 for legal costs and I need to defend myself and to keep WikiLeaks afloat.”

Despite losing his bid to become the Governor of New York, Jimmy McMillan—the most prominent member of the The Rent Is Too Damn High party—hasn’t lost an ounce of steam. The man roared his way through an interview on Revolution Radio yesterday, where he made a surprise announcement: He’s planning to run against President Obama in 2012. And he’s going to do it as a Republican. And it’s going to be awesome.

Move over, country bumpkins—the fancy folk are taking over. After debuting just a few weeks ago, CityVille has lured 54.7 million people on Facebook. Due to this unprecedented growth, Social Times reports that CityVille is set to dethrone FarmVille as Facebook’s most popular game.

Can The Grey Lady take on the boys (and girls) in blue? That’s what one lawsuit aims to find out: The New York Times is suing the New York Police Department, which the paper claims has “routinely violated a state law that requires government agencies to provide information to the press and the public.”

Rachel Maddow turned her attention toward Fox News on her program tonight to—wait, don’t grab your pitchforks just yet! It turns out that the MSNBC host comes in peace… if your name’s Shepard Smith, that is. Maddow praised Shep for the “hullabaloo” he’s been making in the name of the 9/11 First Respodners bill. She’s just thrilled that a man whose network actually matters to Republicans decided to hold Republicans accountable. “All hail Shep Smith at Fox News,” she declared. “And I’m not kidding.”

Bill O’Reilly zapped Karl Rove from Texas to The O’Reilly Factor to discuss the 9/11 First Responders bill that’s been gripping the political media. And their verdict? It still needs more time. According to O’Reilly, “It’s chaos” as it is—so why not wait until next year?

Remember Glenn Beck‘s fuzzy math, which calculated that 10% of Muslims are actually terrorists? Well, according to one of those WikiLeaked diplomatic cables, the man may have been wildly underestimating. At least when it comes to British Muslim students, one-third of whom “believe killing in the name of religion is justified,” according to the Daily Mail.

Are you a busy, on-the-go professional who wishes there was a way to access top-secret government documents and diplomatic cables from your smartphone? As of last Friday, there was an app for that. But last night, Apple decided to pull the WikiLeaks App from its AppStore, joining Amazon, MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal as companies that have distanced themselves from the Julian Assange-led organization.

So you missed last night’s lunar eclipse, huh? And you’re tired of everybody at the water cooler laughing and laughing at how much fun they had watching the rare astronomical event? Well, believe it or not, there’s something you can do about it.

There’s megalomania, and then there’s this: back in the ’90s, when you were busy drinking Zima and watching Melrose Place, Saddam Hussein commissioned a Koran to be written in his own blood. And now, eight years after his death, Iraq is, well, a bit unsure of what exactly they should do with the gruesome artifact.

On the final Saturday Night Live bOn the final Saturday Night Live before Christmas, Seth Meyers knew he had to end Weekend Update with a bang. So he found three, culled from all over the state: Princess of Poughkeepsie Snooki, NYC gadabout Stefon, New York Governor David Paterson. They gathered ’round the camera to sing “O Christmas Tree”—oh, how they sang it.efore Christmas, Seth Meyers knew he had to end this edition of Weekend Update with a bang. So he found three, culled from all over the state: Princess of Poughkeepsie Snooki, NYC gadabout Stefon, New York Governor David Paterson. They gathered ’round the camera to sing “O Christmas Tree”—oh, how they sang it.

The more notorious Julian Assange becomes, the more fun Bill Hader seems to have with the character. He interrupted a message from Mark Zuckerberg on last night’s Saturday Night Live in order to demonstrate why he should be Time’s Person of the Year. “Thanks to WikiLeaks, you can see how corrupt governments operate in the shadows,” he said between muahahas. “Thanks to Facebook, you can figure out which Sex and the City character you are.”

Frosty the Snowman turned up on Saturday Night Live last night to reflect on the passing year and inspire hope for the new one. Democrats, he noted, are hoping the hardest, given that 2010 was so full of political losses. So he peered into the souls of some of Washington’s most prominent Dems to find out what headlines they’d like to see in 2011—like “WikiLeaks: John McCain a Muslim,” dreamt up by President Obama.

Stephen Baldwin is no Alec Baldwin. But he’s cool with that, because he’s got even bigger aspirations: to become “the George Soros for Jesus.” How will he achieve this? As he told nymag.com’s Daily Intel, “I’m 44 years old, my plan is to be a billionaire by 50, which these days, that’s very doable.”

There are a lot of lies told each calendar year, and more so during election years. So as 2010 comes to an end, PolitiFact looked back and determined which one they thought should be their Lie of the Year. And the winner (or loser?) is: “A government takeover of health care,” a phrase they say was instrumental in stopping “President Barack Obama‘s ambitious plan to overhaul America’s health insurance system.”

There’s no confusion as to Larry Flynt‘s stances on free speech and the First Amendment. This is a man who wore an American flag as a diaper to prove a point. And now this is a man who’s donating $50,000 to the WikiLeaks defense fund. “Let’s get something straight: Julian Assange is a journalist,” he wrote in The Huffington Post, adding: “And for many of us, he’s a hero.”

When Michael Vick admitted that he misses having a dog, ears perked up — canine ears included, according to Joy Behar. “I think dogs are lining up to join the Witness Protection Program,” she said. But the rest of the table was a bit more lenient, noting that he’s done his time and that maybe he can move on. After all, he has daughters! Barbara Walters went as far to say that she’d even let Vick look after her Havanese. “Yes, I would let him watch Cha-Cha. I think that he’s learned his lesson, and he’s not going to abuse this dog.”