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Whether you're snowed in and crestfallen, or always avoid amateur night at the bars, you can watch other people party online and on tV.

Online

Beginning at 4 p.m., TimesSquare.com will offer a link to link to a live stream that will run till 12:15 a.m. on January 1, 2009.

The annual Ball Drop in Times Square, aided by Bill and Hillary Clinton, will be streamed by MSN, Hulu (beginning at 10 p.m.), and of course the Times Square site above.

Live now, from EarthCam, Times Square, and "View numerous webcams from around the world including a host of cameras in Times Square."

In Taiwan, pictured at right, it's already 2009.

New Year's Nation 2009 has created an ad hoc social network to host and simulcast a live 10,000 person New Year's Eve party. They've organized live parties in 10 cities -- none east of New York, many on the the West Coast -- and plan to stream it all at the main link via NYN TV. This might be fun, or might be watching other people party without you.

On TV

At 10 p.m., ABC reprises Dick Clark's Primetime New Year's Rockin' Eve '09 With Ryan Seacrest, a variety show with Taylor Swift, Lionel Richie, the Jonas Bros., will.i.am., Natasha Bedingfield, Fall Out Boy, Jesse McCartney, Ne-Yo, Pussycat Dolls, Solange and Robin Thicke performing.

Clark -- America's Oldest Living Teenager -- is 79 now, but is expected to make an appearance. A stroke in 2004 left him with some paralysis.

Also at 10, NBC angles for younger viewers with the fifth New Year's Eve With Carson Daly, and guests Sir Elton John, Ludacris, T.I., The Ting Tings, and Katy Perry.

Both will break for local news at 11, then resume.

CBS, apparently lost without Guy Lombardo, hosts a rerun of Letterman.

From AP,

Daughtry and Scott Weiland are featured players on Fox's late-night special, with Spike Feresten and Mark Thompson as hosts. It airs at 11 p.m. ET.

One recent trend is partying news networks: if you want to jam with Anderson Cooper or Bill Hemmer, you can. Cooper, teamed with comic Kathy Griffin, is in Times Square for CNN, which boasts a surprisingly cool lineup of Lil Wayne, My Morning Jacket and Hinder. Fox's "U Party 2009" has LoCash Cowboys and Chuck Hicks.

The hardest workers of the night? Try the classic rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd _ they're booked on both CNN and the Fox broadcast network.

Also on cable, Miley Cyrus's A Miley-Sized Surprise, at 8 p.m. on MTV, includes performances by Kevin Rudolph, the Veronicas and the Academy Is. BET's 106 & Party: New Year's Eve Special, with Jazmine Sullivan, Brandy, Ray J, Juelz Santana, Brutha, Ace Hood and other guests, at 11.

Also at 11, a daredevil showdown as ESPN's New Year, No Limits will have motocross star Robbie Maddison try to jump the fake Arc de Triomphe at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel. At the same time, Fox has daredevil Robbie Knievel attempting a 200-foot motorcycle jump over over an exploding faux volcano.

Bonus: Web Zen offers n.y.e. party music zen. That last, via BoingBoing.

Worth noting:

On WGBH (Channel 2) at 8 p.m., Live From Lincoln Center presents the New York Philharmonic New Year's Eve Gala Concert

Beginning at 8 p.m. and running well into tomorrow, Turner Classic Movies offers a blockbuster retrospective with the 1974 film That's Entertainment, in which various MGM stars present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50-year history.

Co-hosts are Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Peter Lawford, Liza Minnelli, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart and Elizabeth Taylor, showing lots of clips.

The lineup:

That's Entertainment!, 8 p.m.
That's Entertainment Part II, 10:30 p.m.
That's Entertainment! III, 12:45 a..m. Thursday
That's Dancing! (1985), 3 a.m.

Animal Planet offers 2008: The Year in Animals at 8 p.m.

Sci-Fi Channel is running nothing but a Twilight Zone marathon until well into 5 a.m. Friday.