No one cares if there’s an app for that anymore. USA Today says the novelty of the app is finally wearing off. A new survey has found that 68 percent of smartphone owners use fewer than five apps in any given week.

Before his death, “folklorist” Alan Lomax envisioned that his archives would be available on a “global jukebox.” Then they invented the Internet and he got his wish. The New York Times says about 17,000 tracks from Lomax’s collection will be made available to the public by the end of February.

The Giants’ trip to the Super Bowl has inspired a run on giant TVs, says the Staten Island Advance. Apparently, football fans (mostly men, of course) are using the big game as their excuse to buy a new flat screen TV. Some say they’re simply taking advantage of the discounts that retailers are offering up, others say $1200 is a steal compared to the price of two Super Bowl tickets.

Apparently, the mis-cast “X Factor” host, Steve Jones did not live up to the Ryan Seacrest standard. He’s been sent packing. A short time later Nicole Sherzinger said she’s leaving the show to focus on her music career.  And there’s a report that Paula Abdul will not return for the talent show’s second season.

In the battle of the sexes, women have just notched a considerable victory. According to a new study out of the UK, they are far superior at parking than their male counterparts. Women got high parks for being patient enough to find a space and positioning their car “centrally within it.” Researchers also noted that men tend to ‘pose park’—squeeze into a small spot instead of look for a bigger one—when accompanied by a female passenger.

The Seattle Times says Starubucks is gearing up to open its first store in India, about five years after it first planned to do so.  Some have warned it might be tough to break into a society of tea-drinkers. But those critics are usually silenced by Starbucks’ recent success in another big tea-drinking nation: China.

If you don’t want to have a conversation about your weight at the doctor’s office, choose a physician who’s overweight. The Wall Street Journal says your doctor is less likely to bring up the topic if he or she is tipping the scales too. Experts say it’s a symptom of a “they look like me, but I’m healthy” mindset.

If we don’t start building neighborhoods that encourage walking, says New York Times’ health columnist Jane Brody, than this will be the first generation to live shorter lives than their parents. Experts blame the last few decades of urban planning, which has seen the rise of homes and shopping centers built far away from a central downtown area within walking distance. 

Some TSA agents at LaGuardia reportedly found two suspicious objects yesterday says the New York Post.  Initially, they thought they were pipe bombs.  But instead of calling in the bomb squad, the agents set the suspected bombs on a radiator for about six hours.

Gardeners in North Carolina have suspected this for years, but last week the USDA confirmed it: winters aren’t as cold as they used to be. The agency released a new map of temperature zones around the country, along witha new list of plants that tend to thrive in those areas.

A nine-year study of the Florida Everglades has revealed something disturbing: pythons are wiping out the area’s mammal population. The Sun Sentinel says in places where the Burmese python has been the longest, there’s a 99.3 percent decline in raccoons, a 98.9 percent drop in opossums, and—I was shocked by this until I saw the photo of the front page of the Sun Sentinel—an 87.5 percent decline in bobcats.

How many water skiers does it take to break a world record? The Telegraph has some great video from Australia, of a group of 145 people water skiing their way into the Guinness Book of World Records. The group started out with 154 people, and even though nine fell along the way, they still had enough standing to break the previous record for the highest number of people to be pulled behind a single boat. VIDEO