1. A giant penis snow sculpture has been removed by the police.  A 16-year-old Ohio boy had built the 7-foot tall "genitalia-inspired" sculpture "just to see what people would think" and local police told him to destroy it after somebody complained.

2. The United States of Shame.  Check out this great map of where every state ranks last.  New York has the worst "daily commute" in the country.

3. Listen to the new Hercules and Love Affair album, Blue Songs, here.  It's coming out next week.

4. Some fool paid $100,000 to buy the world's largest bottle of champagne at a Las Vegas nightclub. It's 30 liters and 100 pounds.

5. The winner of Apple's $10,000 prize for downloading the10 billionth app thought the phone call to tell her she'd won was a prank and hung up.  An Apple exec called back and convinced Gail Davis that they weren't joking. (via Cult of Mac)

6. Canna Cola, Doc Weed and Orange Kush? Those are some of the flavors of "medical-marijuana" soft drinks being released by a California company.

7. At long last, The Strokes have a release date for their highly anticipated fourth album, Angles: March. 22nd.