[The pop sensation performs at one of those radio station Jingle Balls in Camden, NJ. Photo via Splash]

Cougar Town, like many shows, details characters complicated social lives. So much emphasis is placed on drinking, pranks, and dating that we are left to assume they are paid by the wine bottle.

The Red Eye staff is high, says Greg, so they cooked up Offspring's prison meal and a mashed potato sandwich, from Simon & Schusters' Mosh Potatoes, a cookbook benefiting Meals On Wheels. Filled with hair and meth. Amirite?

The publisher and ghostwriter of Real Housewife of New Jersey Danielle Staub's memoir, The Naked Truth, are being sued by Staub's ex-husband, Kevin Maher. The lawsuit claims that Simon & Schuster and the author defamed Maher by calling him abusive.

The Antikythera is an ancient mechanical computer designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was found in a wreck in 1900 and it's complexity and significance were not understood until decades later. Now it's been remade with Legos.

At an auction of brand names, "John Elduff, a 20-year-old student from Philadelphia, submitted a winning bid of $2,000 for Collier's - the name of a magazine that stopped publishing more than 30 years before he was born." Cool.

Today the network unveiled a new logo, one that Splitsider claims is it's first in over a decade. Inside, watch a promotional video that features the logo, clips from their shows, and highlights Comedy Central's new iPad app.

The Police Academy in Katowice, Poland's recent budget cuts have left its students without fuel for their vehicles. The upside? The trainees now have a way to simulate very low-speed chases—by pushing the cars by hand! Watch inside.

In your sunny Thursday media column: Howard Stern returns to Sirius, the NYT social media editor disappears, Brenda Starr dies, errors galore, and more!

Rep. Ron Paul, whose career goal is to destroy the Federal Reserve, will chair the subcommittee overseeing the Federal Reserve.

Finally, we get a look at NBC's Perfect Couples—which will premiere in January as a part of NBC's new three-hour comedy block. Inside, watch four minutes of clips from the show and interviews with the cast.

First Baptist Church—a Dallas megachurch with a pastor who calls Islam an "evil, evil religion"—want everyone to have a Merry Christmas. They want it so badly, they're public shaming businesses that don't say "Merry Christmas" to customers.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg tells Katie Couric that he's "not going to run for president," and there's "nothing" that could make him. "Period. End of story." That's pretty definitive, so... the media will have to keep asking him!

What did the world care about in 2010? According to Google, which just released its annual Zeitgeist video—highlighting the year's top search terms—we were interested in money, politics, tragedy, war, the dearly departed, and... Antoine Dodson. Watch inside.

Hot-body actor Ryan Phillippe is selling his "Asian contemporary" home in the Hollywood Hills for $7.175 million. Naturally, there's a custom designed two-story gym in the master suite, and a pool for showing off the results. Plus, kids rooms!

Even though he's dead, Michael Jackson has an upcoming album, Michael. The first single from said album is a duet with Akon called "Hold My Hand," and here's its music video, featuring lots of children, hand-holding (natch), and, well, sadness.

Wikileaks is comprised of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables. Don't have the time to read all of them but still want the diplomatic gossip roundup? You're in luck! This video explains the juiciest cables in under five minutes.

A man with a camera was brave enough to get this close to capture a stand-off between an alligator and electric eel. Ever wanted to see an alligator get full on electrocuted (like shaking and all)? Now's your chance!

Ladies, ladies: we have your health report card, and it's not good. According to this, you've been getting drunker, fatter, and sluttier. It's like every woman in America is a freshman in college again. What's your excuse?