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It's 2010—Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, New York City! We hope you had a fun, safe New Year's celebration and wish you a great 2010. Here are some photos from Times Square and video of the ball drop is below:

As for resolutions, "The Happiness Project" author Gretchen Rubin told the Speakeasy the key to success is "accountability. If you don’t hold yourself accountable to them, they’re not going to do anything for you." Also, she says to be specific with them, 'Don’t say, “I will eat healthier.' Say, 'I will eat a salad every day for lunch, or I will pack my lunch 3 days a week.'"

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Let's pray that this is the decade we finally defeat the Bush/Saud/BinLaden threat to our freedom.

I have a feeling this is the beginning and not the end.

I know what your'e saying but please don't pretend the threat started with the Bush admin. It just makes you look stupid to the facts of history. It might be convenient to say but unfortunately its just wrong.

Wow Jen, you sure do work hard! Kudos for posting at 1:30!

I don't get the point of reporting this as news. I mean, its implied that the same shit is gonna happen each year. I predict a similar event will happen next year. Enough already.

The celebrating of time elapsing is the most idiotic thing we can do as humans.

Especially since Time in the way we know it is an illusion.

I never saw the point of waiting hours of end in the cold weather just to see some ball drop.

At least waiting for a parade or Macy's 4th of July fireworks there is more to see and the climax of waiting so long does last longer.

Fireworks would help but instead a relatively small yet extremely heavy crystal ball drops slowly and mmmm that's it. Anticlimactic.

I'm guessing most of those people are tourists or people who just recently moved here. For the latter, this will prepare them for further disappointments as NYC's well-marketed image is gradually unmasked like the celebrity faces in beauty product commercials.

ABC didn't show the ball drop last night. All we got was Dick Clarke talking with down syndrome.

The fireworks in Central Park for the midnight run were way better. Leave home at 11:00, back home by 1:00, get a much better show. Central Park with snow and fireworks...or Times Square...hmmm.

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