A guy in south Lake Tahoe spent 80 hours working and shoveling snow to build an amazing slide for sleds. Sledders walk up a stairway built into the side of the snowman and then glide down an icy figure-eight slide.

Emily Hearn's video for her song "Rooftop" is well-done and beautiful, as is the song itself. But the key distinguishing factor is that she somehow got the Bill Murray to star in it! He's such a nice guy.

Cindy Mauro and Alini Brito, the two Brooklyn high school teachers who were fired after a janitor allegedly caught them in flagrante delicto (lesbian edition) right in a classroom, are suing the City of New York for $2 million. Their reputations have now been ruined, as people think they are sexxxy lesbians! When in fact, they say, Mauro was "simply
tending to Brito's needs by giving her candy and sugar," hahahahaha. True quote (of the year)!

"I f—ked too many chicks and did too many drugs, and that's the truth." — George Clooney on why he doesn't have any plans to pursue a career in politics anytime soon. [Newsweek]

With the Oscars only a few days away, Mike Tyson discusses his favorite films of the year. Aside from his own (unfortunately unreal) Oscar-bait film The Pigeon Whisperer, Tyson's top pick is Avatar.

Miss Piggy, Big Bird, Piglet, Donald Duck, and others join forces in this PSA to combat the biggest cause of pig-bird tensions - the sudden popularity of Angry Birds. Why can't we all just get along?

Today on The Wendy Williams Show, Roberta Flack explained who Esperanza Spalding is and then recounted the time she won her Grammy for "Killing Me Softly With His Song" and Stevie Wonder had to push her up on stage.

At long last young twentysomethings are getting a work of art all about them. Naturally MTV is the network to bravely take up the mantle. Also today: some truly scary movie casting, some somewhat less scary TV casting, and a discussion of the work of Chris Columbus.

A Staten Island couple was arrested after taking their six-year-old daughter to a police station in an attempt to scare the girl into behaving. Annette Gerhardt and Gerardo Santiago were charged with child endangerment for bringing the tot into the station.

The Detroit public school system plans to close 70 schools to fill a $327 million budget gap while leaving 72 open. Can't you do something about this, Eminem? Maybe make a few phone calls...? Ugh.

Do you know how many new varieties of toothpaste were released in the U.S. last year? Sixty nine. And that's positively modest compared to the 102 new kinds released in 2007. Why so many? Well:

We all know that Jersey Shore is the most important sociological experiment of our time, but is it also the most inspiring children's book of our time? One illustrator sent Snooki and her cohorts to Wonderland and the results are rather amusing.

Netflix and CBS strike a deal, Canada launches a whole network dedicated to chicken, a slew of shows get renewed, and see your favorite male TV stars all gussied up for GQ.

The last time Dr. Oz saw Jimmy, he offered to personally remove a mole from his hand. Because Dr. Memhet Oz films across the hall from Late Night, Jimmy popped in to the studio today to actually do it.

The internet has ensured that the fifteen minutes of fame rule no longer exists. Watch the trailer for a feature film starring all your favorite viral video stars. Gang's all here: Antoine Dodson, Double Rainbow Guy, Leeroy Jenkins, and more.

Remember at the end of Return of the Jedi, when a mistaken Han Solo said, "You love him" to Princess Leia about her brother, Luke Skywalker? Here's how it would have gone down had Quentin Tarantino directed the film. Incest!

This week, a Mother Jones editor named Adam Weinstein got into a Twitter tête à tête with an Indiana lawyer who called on riot police in Madison to use "live ammunition" to clear protesters out of the state Capitol.

Welcome back to Midweek Madness, in which we search for hot, steaming gossip in the pages of the celebrity weeklies. That's right, we read In Touch, Star, Us, Life & Style and OK! so you don't "have" to. [Jezebel]

What would you do if your son was at home, crying alone on the bedroom floor ‘cause he's hungry and the only way to feed him is to get educated at a school full of other pregnant teenagers?

Today at Gawker.TV, Ann Curry lets a naughty word fly on Today, Amy Sedaris stars on Raising Hope, Melissa Leo's 1985 All My Children catfight, Amy Poehler's road rage, and preview Countess LuAnn's half-naked Law & Order: SVU appearance.