Ryan Gosling Shows His Ukulele Skills and Confesses to a Ballet Hobby on Jimmy Kimmel

Ryan Gosling swung by the LA studios of Jimmy Kimmel Live last night and stopped to pose for photos with excited fans waiting outside. The actor chatted with Jimmy about his role in Blue Valentine, which has so far earned lots of award season love - Ryan was nominated in the best actor category at both the Critics' Choice Awards and Golden Globes. He shared with Jimmy about his work in the movie, even breaking out his ukelele to show off the same skills he demonstrated on the big screen. Ryan also touched on his upbringing in Canada and his early start in show business. It was a lengthy interview that included updates on Ryan's philanthropy and his interest in ballet. Check out Ryan and Jimmy's conversation below. Plus, on Tuesday we'll see if Ryan scores an Oscar nod for his dramatic work and we'll be live streaming the nominations announcement - so stay tuned!

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To see the rest of Ryan's interview, including his demonstration of an amazing dance move he learned from a young girl in the Congo just read more.

Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds

Here are seven of the best photos that readers added to The Consumerist Flickr Pool this week, picked for neatness and usability in a Consumerist post.

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Add your shots to The Consumerist Flickr Pool, and perhaps they'll be featured in a future story, or even highlighted in a Friday Consumerist Flickr Pool Finds post. See previous winners of the Friday Consumerist Flickr Pool finds here.

Retail Stocks: Jones weighs on apparel stocks; retail rises

Although shares of Jones Group slide on a disappointing forecast, retail stocks overall are tracking the broader markets higher.

Buy A Stolen Debit Card For $80

Security firm Pandalabs investigated the online underworld's menu of services and has surveyed the going rates for various kinds of fraud. Stolen credit card numbers can be had for as little as $2, but these are like buying a mystery bag. Crooks don't know the cardholder's info and there's no assurance that it will actually work. So for $80 thieves will sell a debit card with a guaranteed (small) balance. To get access to a big balance of $82,000, that will run ya $700.

It's a bit disarming to peer into the world of online fraud and see how easily and cheaply stolen bank account information gets transacted. What if your number was among the bundles of data getting passed back and forth?

That's why it's important to protect yourself by only using a credit card when shopping online, knowing how to identify and ignore phishing attempts, and routinely scanning your statements for fraudulent charges.

There is some consolation in one of the barriers to entry: as much as crooks are ripping us off, they're also ripping each other off, selling each other bogus or used-up batches of numbers or fake fake credit card skimmers that don't work or are never delivered.

Cyber-crime black market undercovered [Pandalabs]

Business booming for cyber criminals: security firm [AFP]

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