LET: YAY! Brigadeiros are being discovered in America! It makes me happy :-) || Oba! Os americanos estão descobrindo o brigadeiro! Que felicidade :-)

PG: Sports headline of the century. (Hat-tip: Vincent Ferrari)

PG: This is 137 years of a great magazine, searchable for free.

PG: Awesome dessert idea.

$500 million later...

PG: A follow-up from a previous edition.

Hat-tip: Vincent Ferrari

"An angler can catch a lot of rainbow trout and yet have no clue what a remarkable force of nature—and mankind—the creatures truly are. Anders Halverson, a research associate at the University of Colorado's Center of the American West, hoists them up for close inspection in a book just released by Yale University Press: 'An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World.'"

PG: Most bizarre goal you'll ever see.

"If there is ever a contest to pick which word has done the most damage to people's thinking, and to actions to carry out that thinking, my nomination would be the word 'fair.' It is a word thrown around by far more people than have ever bothered to even try to define it."

PG: I don't feel the need to say much more here.

PG: Interesting... This map shows areas of the US where people search more online for beer-related terms than grocery-related terms.

PG: Rollins is one of my favorite spoken-word performers.

PG: I love Rube-Goldberg-like videos such as this. It's amazing to watch, especially for the synchronization between the device and the music.

PG: When you're seven months old and survive being left alone FOR THREE DAYS WITH A BULLET IN YOUR CHEST courtesy of your parents' global warming suicide pact, there's very little else that life can do to you.

"My final day in television news was Friday, January 16, 2004. Earlier in my career, those leaving usually had other matters to attend to which precluded actually appearing on camera, but I was accustomed to the reality that I was not going to get away without turning something. I was proud of earning my keep."

" A Russian chimpanzee has been sent to rehab by zookeepers to cure the smoking and beer-drinking habits he has picked up, a popular daily reported on Friday."

PG: Yeah... This'll work.

PG: Best toy ever.

PG: This might be interesting. I've enjoyed Po Bronson's other work.

PG: The limits of product naming.