• Enjoy your Snickers while it lasts: Vending machines that sell fruit, soy milk, baked chips, and other “healthier” snacks are cropping up everywhere. [NYDN]
• Universal theme park’s Harry Potter exhibit is now serving Butterbeer. It contains neither butter nor beer. [NYDN]
• That rule about eight glasses of water a day might just be a bunch of hooey. [Gawker]
• The nightclub attached to Eva Longoria’s Beso Steakhouse in Las Vegas was forced to close amid financial issues. [CBS News]
• Read all about the life-changing invention, and evolution, of the drinking straw. [Gizmodo]
• The seven-foot-tall statue of Kobe the Lobster, who is, naturally, the mascot for a Hamptons burger restaurant, was stolen recently. [NYP]
