If you're afraid of heights, then you may not want to watch this, though the scenery alone—not to mention the feat—is breathtaking. Watch as this incredibly focused slackliner, Jens, skillfully maneuvers his way across Tasmania's infamous Totem Pole.

We've seen a basketball get wedged between the rim and backboard, but, like a quarter landing on it's side, we've never seen a basketball land and sit still on a rim. If it's possible, this is the closest we've come.

Here's a one-minute video that features a girl somehow stay standing while atop a moving balance board. Oh, also: she handles several basketballs—and in several different ways!—with complete ease while doing so. How very impressive! The video, inside.

The Way We Live Now: in perfect balance. For every positive economic development, there is a negative one. Foreclosures down? Loan delinquencies up. Higher pay? Higher risk. Good job? Bad job. Smile? Hit a banker with an acid bomb.

Stocks are down this morning, on concerns about the health of the financial sector. But the foreclosure business is booming, on optimism of more and more and more foreclosures!