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Los Angeles-based baker Rosanna Pansino celebrated the theatrical release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in style, on a recent episode of Nerdy Nummies, by demonstrating how to make a Death Star cake. All of the products needed to make Rosanna’s cake are available to purchase on the Wilton Cake Decorating website. images via Rosanna […]

Los Angeles-based animator Leigh Lahav has created “BB-8: Behind the Circuits,” a funny Behind the Music and E! True Hollywood Story style look at the ups and downs of the little astromech droid‘s life and acting career. Leigh’s mockumentary, which “combines both animation and still photographs,” is narrated by the great Patrick Stewart. images via […]

Dave Hax shows how to make five different Christmas tree ornaments using items from around house.

A hungry little Asian small-clawed otter is more than happy to eat his meal of rice while lying supine atop a blanket with bright orange stripes. On occasion, however, the little otter has been known to use a table when eating with a friend. via Tastefully Offensive

They Might Be Giants has released the music video for “Long White Beard”, a song from their new kids album “Why?”. The video was created for week 50 of their year-long Dial-A-Song Direct series and features stop-motion animation by Kelli Anderson and Daniel Dunnam. Anderson describes how the video came together on her blog.

Yestervid, the video service that researches and sources historical footage to “spice them up for a new generation” has put together a fascination compilation of the oldest known recognizable footage of New York City with the addition of helpful maps to show the exact location. The oldest and most incredible footage of New York City […]

GradeA UnderA goes on a hilarious rant about why the English alphabet is stupid.

Japanese artist Shinrashinge has created a fascinating animated comic, based on the One-Punch Man anime webcomic and TV series adaptation, using three white paper cups with cutout sections. Shinrashinge stacks all three cups inside of each other and, when each cup is individually rotated, a new panel of the comic appears. images via Shinrashinge via […]

In 2013, after a Jumper und Preuß concert in Straubing, Bavaria, German musician Roland Eichler performed a resounding tune on his alpine horn in the garage next to the Paul Theater, using the incredible acoustics to his greatest advantage. The reverberant awesome acoustics demanded simply for an encore :-) Spontaneous Session of performers after the […]

In this set of photos from an unknown source, a helpful little dachshund wearing a adorable zippered tool vest, acts as his human’s assistant as they do some work in the garage on the their van. While a dachshund’s back can be fairly delicate, the tools appear to be light and do not rest directly […]

Venture capital firm First Round Capital presents “This Time It’s Different”, their annual holiday video featuring their portfolio companies performing industry specific parodies of popular songs from the last year, such as “Uptown Funk” and “Hotline Bling.” In 2014 their startups sang “All About Burn Rate“. The holidays are here, and our community is ready […]

One of our cats, Ika Zaru, has been pretty finicky lately, so we picked-up some Catchup and Meowstard cat condiments by Petchup to liven up her food a bit. How could we resist with such great pun product name? photo by Scott Beale

NASA has released video showing a breadboard version of their 3D printed rocket engine being test fired at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The test engine fired with 20,000 pounds of force, which NASA engineer Nick Case says would be enough for the upper stage of a rocket or a Mars lander.

WINNER – 2015 “Rush Hour” by Julian Rad When the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards put out a call for funny images of wild animals, photographers from all over the world answered. From all the photos submitted, 13 of the best were chosen and announced this past November 11. The contest was started by Paul Joynson-Hicks, […]

During a recent visit to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, I took a photo of the powerful “Non-Violence” sculpture located in the Visitors’ Plaza created by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd. The sculpture features a .357 Magnum revolver with its barrel tied in a knot and was made by Reuterswärdin response to […]

Lisa Simpson makes a YouTube ad for Homer‘s Mr. Plow business to promote YouTube for Business in a new commercial. Lisa shows off some of the features of YouTube advertising like targeting the ad in a set radius around a specific location, in this case Springfield.

On a recent episode of The Tonight Show, Will Ferrell came out on stage as the “newer, hipper, more badass Santa Claus.” The new Santa bro was decked out with a Bluetooth headset, a cut off muscle coat, a weak t-shirt cannon, and even took time to sit on one lucky audience member’s lap to […]

On a special Star Wars episode of Conan, host Conan O’Brien started the show off with an amusing cold open featuring a group of characters who were rejected from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Jango Fett, Bib Fortuna, Oola, and other d-list characters took turns sharing their frustrations while Lobot (Conan) went out of his […]

“If you are forced to awaken early tomorrow morning, it will be on the dark side.” – Sian Welby On Wednesday, Channel 5 News reporter Sian Welby updated United Kingdom viewers on the weather while cleverly slipping 12 Star Wars puns. Sian did the same exact thing when celebrating the 30th anniversary Back to the […]

Khargol the fighter fell asleep and started to snore during a Dungeons and Dragons game that was being live streamed on Twitch. Even the booming, disembodied voice of the Dungeon Master was unable to wake him from his eternal slumber. via reddit

“Star Wars Minus Star Wars – Between the Lines” is a brilliant video by Kyle Kallgren that tells the entire story of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope using only clips from other films and television shows. It’s impossible to overstate the impact of Star Wars. Its arrival in theaters on May 25th 1977 […]

Film critic Tommy Edison, who has been blind since birth, attempts to describe what various iconic Christmas things look like.

Hello/Goodbye A new VEVO channel dedicated to The Beatles recently released a number of their original music videos that are incredible in so many different ways – the music, the lyrics, the costumes and of course, The Beatles. Also, surprisingly, is the remarkable color quality of “Hello/Goodbye“, a video that’s 48 years old. When The […]

“Lily & the Snowman” is a heartwarming animated short by Cineplex about the magic of storytelling. In the film young Lily builds a magic snowman who shows her wonderful stories. She grows up, but each year pulls out her snowman friend to share new tales. Co-director Dan Abdo and Jason Patterson share a behind-the-scenes look […]

Macaulay Culkin reprises his Home Alone role of Kevin McCallister as a deranged adult in the first episode of the new series :DRYVRS. The series was created by musician Jack Dishel and features a cast of strange drivers who pick him up in an Uber like car service.

Aerial cinematographer Don Melara of Air Cam Shots has built a custom remote-controlled R2-D2 quadcopter that not only soars through the sky, but also features a rotating head, a speakers that make the little astromech droid’s classic beeps and whistles, LED lights, and a small camera in his eye. Melara’s custom quadcopter, named “Arturo,” recently […]

Storks is an animated feature by directors Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland about the company of storks that used to deliver human babies. Although the storks have given up baby delivery in favor of delivering packages, when a baby is accidentally produced it must be delivered by a young stork and human before their boss finds […]

Jimmy Kimmel Live presents the 9th edition of celebrities reading mean Tweets about themselves. The twitterverse can be a battlefield and from time to time, we shine a light on the nasty things people post about celebrities by having those celebrities read them aloud. We’ve done it again in our 9th edition of Mean Tweets […]

In the latest episode of “Dog’s Best Day” by Barkbox, a sweet dog in Charleston, South Carolina named Caitlyn, who survived horrible abuse at the hands of the man who once housed her, was given a day of her dreams after such a long recovery. The day started with receiveing a “Bone to the City” […]

Screen Junkies gives their Honest Trailers treatment to Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. The Star Wars prequel trilogy concludes with Revenge of the Sith, the best film in the trilogy – in that it’s the least bad.

On last night’s episode of Conan, the red headed host joined Dick Van Dyke and his wonderful a cappella group, the Vantastix, to perform an amazing version of “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang“, the eponymous song from the 1968 film of which Van Dyke was the star.

Mark Foster Gage, an architect known for his wonderfully creative designs, is currently in the midst of building a highly ornate residential tower at 41 West 57th Street at the heart of midtown Manhattan. Because of the intricate dragon-like gargoyles that appear along the sides and atop the 102 stories, he tower has been nicknamed […]

How It Should Have Ended gives their animated interpretation of how Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith should have ended. The dark side of youtube is a pathway to many comment sections some would consider to be… unnatural.

AnimalRobot has created “A White Christmas on Hoth,” their wonderful mashup video of clips from Star Wars and Frank Sinatra‘s magical 1944 cover of “White Christmas.” The mashup was made in honor of Sinatra’s 100th birthday and the upcoming theatrical release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

In an amusingly somber tribute to the mysterious mortal status of the beloved Game of Thrones character Jon Snow, video editor and parody creator Bonecage mashed together scenes from various seasons of the show and set the whole thing to a parody version of the classic Meatloaf ballad “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad“. And […]

Linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill verbally and visually explain why the word “merry” is used in conjunction with Christmas, when the word “happy” is used more often for holidays in the United States There was Merry Christmas AND Happy Christmas. …Over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries the independent use of […]

Star Wars fan and YouTuber Allen Pan of Sufficiently Advanced has created a “Real Burning Lightsaber” which is a handheld flamethrower built to look and act like a real-life lightsaber. Earlier this year, Pan also created a real-life version of Thor’s hammer Mjölnir, which could only be lifted by its owner.

Keep Being You – Isyana Sarasvati (“Start the Day”) Brooklyn-based music blog Hype Machine has again put together Zeitgeist 2015, their wonderful end of the year list of favorite songs tailored to different moments of the day as determined by some of their “musician, writer, DJ and avocado friends”. The list includes the perfect music […]

In the PBS Space Time episode “The Higgs Mechanism Explained,” host Matt O’Dowd explains what the Higgs boson and Higgs field are and breaks down exactly what it is that gives particles mass.

On last night’s episode of The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert took to the stage to perform a rather vigorous version of the classic Christmas song “Carol of the Bells” with actor, radio host and former Black Flag vocalist Henry Rollins. Rollins is currently promoting his new horror film He Never Died, which opens tomorrow […]

In the latest update to their Messenger app, Facebook has added Uber integration, allowing users to request a ride from within a conversation when an address is included. In the blog post announcing the addition, Facebook says they will be adding additional travel partners besides Uber in the future, and that for a limited time […]

Los Angeles-based Ryan Tellez of the geeky comedy group The Warp Zone recently wrote and performed a brilliant musical recap of the original Star Wars trilogy. The quick refresher takes us through the galaxy far, far away in less than five minutes and gets us ready for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Like many other of his feline brethren, a tenacious tuxedo cat named Elliot loves cardboard boxes. He loves them so much, in fact, that he uses his sharp little teeth to reduce them down to absolutely nothing in about three month’s time. Luckily his human was around to record the most recent one. Elliot likes […]

Filmmakers Matt Arnold and Freddie Wong of RocketJump have created episode three of RocketJump: The Show, a new Hulu original series that gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the amazing work that goes into RocketJump’s action-comedy short films. Episode three, “Truck Flipper v Bus Puncher,” is about two movie producers who battle to have the […]

The Tanner family returns to their San Francisco home in the first trailer for the Netflix series Fuller House. The series follows the characters from the classic sit com Full House as D.J. Tanner-Fuller (Candace Cameron-Bure) tries to raise her three children with the help of her sister Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin) and friend Kimmy Gibbler (Andrea […]

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Netflix has created an online guide for building a pair of socks that will automatically pause a show when the viewer falls asleep while watching. The device works by using an accelerometer to detect when a person has stopped moving, once the viewer is asleep the socks send a signal to their television using built-in […]

George Hotz (also known as geohot), who at 17 was the first person to unlock the iPhone for any carrier, has built his own self-driving car that teaches itself to drive like a human. Hotz’s car, an adapted Acura called the Comma.ai, using an onboard laser system, cameras, and software written by Hotz to adapt how the […]

Bad Lip Reading has provided alternate dialogue for the original Star Wars trilogy with hilarious character voices by their guests Maya Rudolph, Bill Hader, and Jack Black. It’s an out of this world ride through the original three Star Wars films as Vader texts Leia helmet pics, Yoda sings to Luke, and more.

Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys teamed up to capture super slow motion footage of a giant animatronic mammoth stomping on household items and a watermelon. They filmed the process in celebration Ubisoft‘s upcoming video game, Far Cry Primal, at 2,000 FPS with a Phantom Flex4K high-speed camera. Far Cry Primal […]