PG: I hadn't heard about this art form either

"Could parachute-wearing bears sniff out Osama bin Laden?"

PG: My how far we've come...

"These are the latest creations of extraordinary artist Tommy McHugh - a former builder and youth offender who can't stop painting since he emerged from a coma. Mr McHugh, 60, nearly died after two blood vessels burst in the back of his head. But after a week in a coma, he awoke with an uncontrollable urge to create and began writing poetry, painting the interior of his home, sculpting and carving."

"You’ll notice I haven’t even mentioned getting kicked out of school, driving when stoned, or other legal outcomes – just pay attention in your own world and you’ll notice the consequences yourself."

"...along comes Thomas Friedman, porn-stached resident of a positively obscene... 11,400 square foot suburban Maryland mega-monstro-mansion and husband to the heir of one of the largest shopping-mall chains in the world, reinventing himself as an oracle of anti-consumerist conservationism."

"In the past decade six of the ten best-director Oscars went to Americans and five of the best-actress Oscars, a decline from the 1970s-90s when Americans won almost everything."

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.