Miley Cyrus takes on Urban Outfitters and Rick Santorum. An "intimate home video" of Jennifer Lopez gets one step closer to release. And Kendall Jenner is taking a safe, common prescription medication. Sunday gossip is kicking off its three-day weekend.

That picture of your baby/dog/child on the couch is almost as cute as the one of her on a chair! Which is almost as cute as the one of her sleeping! Which is almost as cute as… OK STOP. [Gizmodo]

Gil Scott-Heron, the poet and musician, died in New York City on Friday at age 62. Best known for searing, funny spoken-word songs like "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" and "Whitey on the Moon" — tracks that would later be cited as important influences for generations of rappers — Scott-Heron also wrote two novels and three collections of poetry. His most recent album, I'm New Here, was released last year. It's terrific — as is nearly everything he released, in particular his collaborations with jazz musician Brian Jackson.

Today science told us that Obama is going to have a scandal sometime in the near future. Ruh roh! What will it be? Well, one commenter thinks they know and boyyy is it a corker.

What better way to honor the men and women of the armed services than to go see a movie? OK, there are many far better ways, but why not see a movie anyway? There are hangovers, and pandas!

Last weekend, a woman named Samantha went hiking with her friends near Spokane, Washington and documented the trek with her iPhone. After returning home and reviewing footage of the hike, however, Samantha was stunned to see an uninvited—yet strangely familiar—figure moving ahead of her group. Could it be... Bigfoot? [via KOMO]

Everybody wants to date someone with a good sense of humor. But as it turns out not all humor is equally attractive—and some say men prefer ladies who joke like dudes. [Jezebel]

In this week's app roundup: leafs, identified; music, voice recognized; Jackass, documented; keyboards, personalized; BBC News, Androidified; Amazon free apps, notified; food, stylized; and much, much more. [Gizmodo]

Pop garbage act Katy Perry and her comedian husband Russell Brand are selling their four-story Los Feliz home for around $3.4 million (and are rumored to be relocating to Ben Stiller's old house).

Fish labeling! Dog drinking! Disease eradicating! Anorexia theorizing! Contaminated fishing! Radiation sexing! Distant-object spotting! Caffeine surviving! And whatever new thing they say about heart disease today! It's your Friday Science Watch, where we watch science—indiscriminately!

As if Jon Hamm didn't have enough to do starring in Mad Men as Don Draper, being dirty and funny in Bridesmaids, and maintaining the perfect amount of chest hair, he's now going to direct the fifth season premiere of Mad Men.

Making fun of people who think Onion articles are real is basically as old as the Onion itself. The New York Times does it. Fox News does it. And normal people do it, too.

There's trouble in Farmington City, Utah, as you can clearly tell by this headline on the website of local NBC affiliate KSL-TV: "Horse herpes outbreak forces rodeo queens to ride stick ponies."

It's Fleet Week, that time of year when ships all dock in New York and the Big Apple is swarmed with scores of horny naval men and Marines looking for a good time.

If you've already filled up your tank ahead of this holiday weekend, you know the price of gas is up. Don't panic! Here's a guide to help you cut the cash you're sending to big oil in no time. [Jalopnik]

If you run a charity helping teen girls, and you get $18,000 in funding from Comcast, and you don't like it when FCC commissioners approve massive media mergers only to almost immediately take a high-paying job with the merged company, you are apparently not allowed to say so on Twitter. Word to the wise.

The sequel to 2009's big sleeper hit comedy The Hangover opened yesterday in early anticipation of the holiday weekend and it is big. Its $31 million opening day is the largest single-day earning for an R-rated comedy ever, and third highest-grossing Thursday opening on record. So basically get ready for The Hangover III: Tijuana Nights. [EW]

In your Memorial Friday media column: the Daily Mail is king of all news, nobody watches TV any more, another departure from The Daily, the NYSE's ridiculous trademark battle, and the Miami Herald sells its house.

Here's a trailer for The Whistleblower, a true-life drama about Kathryn Bolkovac, the Nebraska cop turned United Nations police officer who, while hired by UN contractor DynCorp, alerted authorities to sex trafficking within the force.

Sarah Palin's big Tour de Grift doesn't kick off until Sunday, but you can watch a mediocre 52-second YouTube about it right now! Watch as her slaves prep the bus, decorating it with stock photos of the Constitution and flags and mountains. Palin narrates some gibberish about the Constitution. An artist's rendering of George Washington is shown. Then some more stuff about the Constitution, etc.