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From the Triple Tri, hope everyone has a safe and happy Memorial Day.

Gary Coleman, the child star of the smash 1970s TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" whose later career was marred by medical and legal problems, has died after suffering an intercranial hemorrhage. He was 42.

This is the Sports Illustrated cover released the month before JPH was born. Dean Smith had just won his first of 2 National Championships.

I couldn't embed the video here, but it's worth clicking the link to watch the sloth video. As one person put it, wear goggles if you are allergic to cute:

I filmed this at the Aviaros del Caribe sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica - the world's only sloth orphanage. Baby 2 and 3 toed sloths, whose mother's have either been run over or zapped by power lines are brought to the sanctuary and looked after by Judy Arroyo. For more sloth photos and vids visit my blog pinktreefrog.typepad.com/ or follow me on twitter amphib_avenger.

Hit this link to watch the video.

Had to leave you this gem to kick the weekend off on the right foot:

For the recent lotto winners, professional athletes, and CEOs in the crowd, here's the 2011 Porsche 911 GT2 RS ($245,000). The most powerful road-legal Porsche, it's fueled by a 3.6-liter engine producing 620 hp, good for a 0-60 time of 3.4 seconds and a top speed of 205 mph, with composite ceramic brakes to bring you back down to earth, helped along by 19-inch wheels sheathed in custom rubber created specifically for the GT2 RS. Other features include a black and red Alcantara interior, carbon fiber bodywork, adaptive suspension management, and the feeling that comes with knowing you're one of only 500 people on earth who get to call one your own.

You can now own a little — okay, actually really big — piece of movie memorabilia by purchasing the Field of Dreams Farm ($5.4 million). This 193-acre property includes the baseball field and two-bedroom, 1.5 bath farmhouse seen in the 1989 film, two souvenir stands, and six other assorted farm buildings. With approximately 65,000 movie buffs visiting the site each year, it's a modest tourist attraction, along with actually being a farm. If you build buy it, they will come.

Got tipped off to this one by Jim C.:

If you were one of the many supporters of Team Coco in the recent late night battles, then you’re sure to appreciate this glorious Threadless shirt featuring Conan in his true barbarian form.

Interested in buying this shirt ---> head over to Threadless and pick one up.

Hope everyone has a great Cinco De Mayo --- however you're celebrating it.

It's no secret that I'm an Audi fan... hell, I'm a fan of any car that'll rearrange your hair/internal organs when you mash the accelerator -- and here's a beautiful one from Audi:

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We'll be perfectly honest: the first thing running through our heads as we were passed the other day by an Audi R8 doing roughly 110mph wasn't "Hey, that thing needs more power." Yet that's exactly what you'll find in the new Audi R8 GT ($256,000). This super-villain version of Audi's flagship sports car features 560 hp, up from 525 in the "stock" model, a curb weight that's 220 lbs. less than the normally aspirated version, a zero to 62 time of 3.6 seconds and a top speed that's just a hair off 200 mph.