Do you hear that? It's the triumphant wail of Mariah Carey, another $6 million in her bank account, after your Aunt Sheila's 16th playing of "All I Want for Christmas is You."

Colombian special forces infiltrated territory occupied by FARC rebels and installed Christmas lights on an 82-foot high tree. They hope that this will encourage them to surrender. Except the Jewish FARC rebels, I guess?

Physicists have come up with a mathematical model to predict the formation coffee rings—their thickness and length. They've done this before, but maybe that other model didn't account for cream and/or sugar? [via Ars Technica]

A Manhattan Judge ruled that a 4-year-old girl who ran down an elderly woman on her bicycle, causing her to break her hip and, eventually, die, can be sued for negligence. She won't be liable, though—her mom will.

The Loebner Prize is an annual contest to see who can create the most human-like "chatbot" program. This year's winner, Suzette, actually managed to fool a judge into thinking it was human! Let's see what Suzette has to say.

Today—just one day after the Pentagon admitted it was accepting openly gay applicants—an appeals court ruled the Pentagon can actually temporarily reinstate DADT. This is all very confusing. Maybe we should just stop all wars?

A Kentucky megachurch pastor says of yoga: "Yoga is demonic. If you just sign up for a little yoga class, you're signing up for a little demon class." We also think Yoga is demonic, but probably for different reasons. (via.)

One should not take love advice from one's psychiatrist. Dating is not conducive to mental health! Now we learn of a woman whose psychiatrist set her up with dudes to get some creepy vicarious kicks of his own.

A new Gallup poll shows that 49 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds have a "great deal" of confidence in newspapers, compared to just 16 percent of 30- to 49-year-olds. This is because they have never read a newspaper.