There's this video of One Direction member Harry Styles that's being linked around lately, even though it's not exactly brand new. It was actually released last November for a One Direction special, and it features Styles tearing up while he talks about his reaction to reading hateful comments posted online about him.

I fully expected to be annoyed by this video more than anything else. Oh, poor insanely popular boy band member, you went and deliberately searched for trollish commentary about yourself and it hurt your widdle feelings?

Now that I've watched it, though, I feel like an asshole. Not just for assuming that someone's celebrity status somehow makes them immune to nasty comments, but for forgetting that this guy is only a teenager -- and he's currently experiencing a whole new wave of hateful Internet backlash for the simple fact that he kissed a girl on New Year's Eve.

Did you see Les Miserables during the holiday week? As a long-time fan of the musical, I loved the movie when I saw it. But of course ya can't please everyone. Take, for example, Adam Lambert, the dude who rose to fame as the runnerup on American Idol.

He says the film “suffered massively” from “great actors PRETENDING to be singers.”

Ouch.

This was all thanks to Twitter, of course. He tweeted that the film was “visually impressive” with “great emotional performances,” but he didn't like the singing.

WTF, dude? Though I may have had some issues with a couple of the actors they picked -- you can't say some of the leads, like Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, and Samantha Barks, aren't veteran singers! There's no way in hell they were pretending as they sung their way through that movie.

In the wake of the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, semi-automatic weapon sales have skyrocketed, specifically for AR-15 rifles, the same gun that shooter Adam Lanza used to murder 20 children and six adults on that horrifying day. Gun shops can't seem to stay stocked, and there are even reports of long wait lists for the military rifles. In an even sicker twist, a lot of those weapons seem to have been given as Christmas gifts, and the recipients have been posting photos of themselves, posing with their new assault weapons. And a lot of them are women. Women. Holding assault rifles. WTF?

Why anyone needs weapons like this who isn't, you know, stationed in Afghanistan, is beyond me. But also, who gives someone else an assault weapon for Christmas???

If you and your kids haven't checked out the NORAD Santa Tracker website, or NORAD Santa Tracker's Twitter, you need to drop what you're doing and immediately do so. It's adorable. It's funny. It's convincing. And, um, don't you want to know what Santa's up to?

NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) has been tracking Santa since the 1950s (so, yes, they're a reputable Santa source), but now that it's the 2000's, and Twitter and the Internet have taken over the world, you can find out what The Big Guy is up to every waking moment. (Come on, even St. Nick isn't immune to social media and the constant voyeurism it provides.)

Grab the kids, and find out how Santa and his reindeer are spending their final moments before the big day! You might be surprised! Merry Christmas!

Be careful what you #hashtag, or else you could wind up opening up the floodgates and find out that some of your customers don't really have the highest opinion of you. That's what Starbucks learned recently after a campaign to get folks to use the hashtag #SpreadTheCheer became a PR nightmare. Tweeters didn't use the hashtag to sing the coffee company's praises. They started bashing Starbucks instead for how it treats its workers.

And what's worse, the tweets were broadcast on the big screen at London's Natural History museum, where Starbucks sponsors the ice rink. Oops!

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Remember the days when you would sneak out of a guy's place in the wee hours of the early morning, still in your clothes from the night before, and you'd slink down the street with your head hung low, praying to god no one called out, "Hey, hey, Kiri! Is that you?" Not that that ever happened, of course. (Nor did I ever buy a new shirt on the way to work. Just sayin'.) It was called "the walk of shame." Well, those days are ovah, my friends. All that old-timey coyness is SO last decade (or last month?). Anyway, no one hides the fact that they slept with a dude the night before or are even, like, sleeping with him that minute. Why hide it when you can tweet about it! That's what Lindsay Lohan does. And don't we all look to Lindsay for our social cues?

I'm going to say something controversial here: Sometimes, I feel bad for celebrities. No, not because the camera's all up in their face when they're out simply trying to get a ham sammy (they love it anyway), but because ever since Twitter's come around, they're, like, responsible for people. People they, technically, shouldn't be responsible for at all, because they don't know them from a hole in the wall. What's making me wax poetic on this? The 911 call Shannen Doherty made regarding a fan threatening to kill herself via Twitter was recently released, and man, what an odd addendum to the job.

So there was a monkey on the loose at Ikea the other day. A monkey in a chic little shearling coat. Delighted shoppers snapped and posted photos of the monkey as he scampered about a Toronto, Canada Ikea for a little under an hour before animal control captured him. Here's Bronwen Page's photo of Ikea monkey. It's adorable and all, but WTF? I have so many questions.

Who was Ikea monkey's owner? How did it get there? What is animal control doing with him now? Has he eaten? And where did he get that adorable little coat? Is Ikea selling monkeys now? Also, is this a real-life episode of Curious George? Just curious.