1. This photo set of a wild polar bear (okay, wild and polar bear might be redundant to say the least) frolicking with a tethered husky is so cute I just want to stick 'em in a microwave and set it to 'popcorn.' 2. Imagine the mainstream news media as the megaphone guy, that is a guy with a megaphone at a party of a sort: "Megaphone Guy might not have much to say, but he's got a megaphone and so he is heard, his utterances setting the agenda for the entire party, the party's collective intelligence (its crowd-like wisdom if you want to put it that way) determined by the intelligence of Megaphone Guy. Before long, it ruins the party because the other guests will stop being guests and become passive "reactors-to-the-Guy". Apt metaphor.
3. Beninsouthafrica found a cool video recording of a James Brown and Pavarotti duet. No, not "Endless Love" because that would have been really awkward.
4. At first it looks like the Gorilla is getting a bj, but it actually gets better! A lot better! See for yourself!
5. Hipster Olymics. I carried the torch from Union St to Atlantic Ave.
6. Did you know that famed playwright Arthur Miller had a child with Down Syndrome? Sometimes I forget that other than 80 lbs of ads for high luxury items the Vanity Fair has articles such as this.