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Watch a Flying Robot Quadrocopter Play 'Jingle Bells'

Adrian Chen · 12/25/10 12:31PM

Didn't you all think by Christmas 2010 we would have robot butlers to fix us eggnog and buy our Christmas presents? We don't, but here's something cool: A flying robot that plays 'Jingle bells' on a keyboard.

Santa Claus Is a Gay Couple Living in Chelsea

Max Read · 12/24/10 11:17AM

Click to viewHundreds of kids in New York City think that Santa Claus lives on West 22nd Street. He does not (he lives in the North Pole, duh)—these two guys do. But after receiving 450 letters, they're helping out anyway.

Barack Obama's Beach Covered in Poop

Jim Newell · 12/23/10 04:40PM

Rainstorms have caused 14 Hawaiian sewer pipes to overflow, at least four of which spilled into the waterway where the Obamas are vacationing. Hawaii has issued a "brown water warning." Will Barack Obama "man up" and swim in this poopwater?

Reindeer Shroom to Escape Winter Boredom

Maureen O'Connor · 12/23/10 04:18PM

An article in Pharmaceutical Journal claims that "reindeer deliberately seek out the mind-bending fungi to escape the monotony of dreary, long winters." Herdsmen then drink their pee to get a secondary high. Explains all that flying, doesn't it? [Sun, via]

Pink's Big Brown Building

Richard Lawson · 12/23/10 04:04PM

Singer Pink and her husband Carey Hart just bought this 6,800-square-foot Malibu mansion for $11.85 million. The swimming pool is 25 yards long! And it looks like there's plenty of space for Pink's aerial silk work, too.

Top Chef: You Got Served

Brian Moylan · 12/23/10 01:57PM

They say cooking is just like a tennis match. Actually, they don't say that, because cooking is nothing like tennis. Except when they make it be like tennis. Then it's nothing but net-jumping disaster.