Happy New Year 2010! Watch The Ball Drop In Times Square

Woo! Happy New Year — and Happy New Decade! Even if you’re not in New York — or in the same time zone, for that matter — it’s a tradition to watch the ball drop live in Times Square, especially if you’re somewhere warm and the weather there is crap, as it was tonight. No matter. It’s a sacred tradition and one that, for the few minutes or so before Midnight EST, is shared by millions of people around the world, who all count down in unison as the ball drops and we ring in another New Year. It’s nice. Watch it below:

p.s. Here at Mediaite we like to be efficient, so in the spirit of saying adieu to The Aughts and Hello to the Twenty-Tens we’d like to wish you a very Happy New Yecade. Because it’s not only a new year, and it’s not only a new decade. It’s a New Yecade.
p.p.s. Apparently the ball is a 12-foot geodesic sphere and descends down a 60-foot pole. Anderson Cooper said so.

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