This week, New York Magazine dove deep into Matt Lauer and the Today show's recent ratings slide/betrayal imbroglio. If you are not currently a housespouse, joyfully unemployed, and/or just really interested in how to spruce up an outhouse, and so haven't been paying attention, here's a breakdown: Back in 2011, Ann Curry replaced Meredith Vieira as Matt Lauer's co-anchor. Then, after just over a year on the job, Curry got bounced, for reasons related either to (a) a general unsuitably for the gig, or (b) a distinct inability to vibe with Lauer specifically (her teary, awkward on-air good-bye — at one point Lauer tried to plant a consoling kiss on her, and she ducked it — seemed to suggest the latter). And then: "After sixteen years as the No. 1 morning show in America, Today was worth nearly half a billion dollars a year in advertising revenue to NBC, the bedrock of its business. In the aftermath of the Curry debacle, the show lost half a million viewers and ceded first place in the ratings war to ABC's Good Morning America, losing millions of dollars overnight." Yikes.

Google’s New Year’s Resolutions map, and its sometimes wonkified translations of those resolutions (“to be overcome in everything, do everything to all!”), attempts to capture the flava of 2013 at its most nascent stage. So far, we want puppies and more money. Will a slew of Ryan Gosling movies suffice?