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For week three of their rebooted year long project Dial-A-Song project, the band They Might Be Giants created the song “I Like Fun“, which has fascinating lyrics, slightly discordant melody and a wonderfully surreal animated music video. impatiently I wait to refill my prescription and count the tock of the drugstore clock a prototype they...

Last year at the Kickstarter unconference PWL Camp, writer Rex Sorgatz gave an interesting talk entitled “Fake Shemps and Rogue Princesses” or the use of substitutions used in the film and television industries. Sorgatz first explained how the term “Fake Shemp” came into play: The first fake Shemp. 1951 Shemp…died of a surprise heart attack...

Taras Kulakov the “Crazy Russian Hacker” demonstrates how to cut firewood the same length every single time using The Mingo Firewood Marker. The handy measuring device works by gripping the handle, rolling the tool’s wheel down the length of the log, and accurately marking your log for cutting. He also demonstrated how to use a...

San Francisco software engineer and freelance artist Eric Geusz has drawn a fantastic collection of spaceships that were each inspired by objects found around his house. Geusz’s full series of illustrations are available to view on ArtStation, DeviantArt, and Instagram. A post shared by Eric (@spacegooose) on Sep 18, 2016 at 11:04pm PDT A post...

In an adorable segment from the BBC Earth special Wild Patagonia, Santiago Cabrera narrates a hilarious scene in which a waddle of baby rockhopper penguins are doing their very best to climb up a cliff that stands between them and their families. While rockhoppers are quite adept at climbing, these chicks are evidently still learning...

Gifs Video posted a hilarious video, made up of footage created by contributors on the birdswitharms reddit, featuring real birds living their everyday lives with wacky arms. via Tastefully Offensive A Real Life Version of the Angry Birds Video GameReal Birds Send Messages on Twitter by Feeding on Pieces of Pork Fat That are Attached...

Hamilton Beach has released a handy new Breakfast Burrito Maker that takes 4 to 5 minutes to cook a burrito, personal pizza, omelet, stuffed pancake or crepe filled with your own selection of ingredients. It is available to purchase on Amazon. The preheat light will tell you when it is ready, then it’s time for...

Redditor Anders Kvernberg aka PisseGuri82, a librarian at Nasjonalbiblioteket in Oslo, Norway created a fascinating map that plots ten of the shortest borders throughout the world. Amongst these borders are those between Spain and Morocco, Botswana and Zambia, Belgium and The Netherlands, Argentina and Paraguay, and Sweden and Finland, just to name a few. It...

A silly pet red shouldered hawk named Frogger who lives in Carson City, Nevada repeatedly tried to attack the small birds and animals pictured in a copy of a “Small Game Hunting Guide” magazine. Frogger’s human was amused by his bird. My red-shouldered hawk, Frogger, was checking out animal photos in the Nevada small game...

This post was sponsored by Animation Floating Pen via Syndicate Ads. Japan’s renowned creator & IT guru Satoshi Endo launched his first capsule collection of the world’s first Animation Floating Pen back in 2010, which featured a 6-frame animation of “walking man” and “swimming man”. After winning an international design award and after seven years...

WarLeaks shared amazing footage, originally taken by U.S. Navy petty officers Mark Logico and Kristopher Ruiz, of the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) aircraft carrier performing high-speed turns in the Atlantic Ocean to demonstrate its evasive action maneuver capability. It looks as if the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier was drifting and doing donuts in the ocean....

Vlogger Li Ziqi very gracefully demonstrated the traditional Chinese art of making paper from scratch. Throughout, Li showed each deliberate step involved in this beautiful process including tree cutting, stripping, drying , rehydrating, boiling, mashing it into a paste, and setting it into a form, creating a big beautiful sheet of paper. Her YouTube channel...

Prankster brother Jake Hessing did a perfect job of terrifying his sister and her friends, who were in another room playing with a Ouija board, by turning the lights off and on using a circuit breaker. via reddit Psychic Warns Clients To Run When Her Ouija Board Spells Out An Eye Popping MessagePrankster Roman Atwood...

While waiting to see the veterinarian, a rescued baby calf name Mike put his head onto his human Dan’s lap and promptly fell asleep, letting out adorable soft snores. Mike had been surrendered to the Barn Sanctuary in Chelsea, Michigan by a local farmer who could not care for Mike’s multiple health issues. Local farmer...

TVBee has removed the laugh track from episode nine of the fifth season of Friends, titled “The One With Ross’s Sandwich,” where Ross Geller (David Schwimmer) becomes upset after someone steals his sandwich at work. The scene, where Donald sits down and confronts Ross about his actions, becomes much darker without the laugh track present...

A rather determined and somewhat confused cat hilariously tried to chase and catch a Hot Wheels car that was going full speed around a criss cross track, much to the delight of the laughing children in the room. Life Size Hot Wheels Double Dare Loop at X GamesPOV Footage of a Hot Wheels Car Racing...

A post shared by Katie Acheson Wolford (@katieachesonwolford) on Apr 4, 2017 at 8:31am PDT Artist Katie Acheson Wolford has created a magnificent collection of illustrations where she draws human faces and necks in one continuous line without lifting her pen. Prints of Wolford’s work is available to purchase from Society6 and her website. A...

Cocktail Chemistry demonstrates how to recreate and improve Michael Scott‘s drink, called “One Of Everything,” from The Office. The drink consists of equal parts Scotch, Absinthe, Rum, Gin, Vermouth, Triple sec, and two packs of Splenda. Recreating Cocktails From The SimpsonsMichael Peppe Recreates Jim Jones Rant at Christmas PartyHow to Recreate the 360-Degree Effect from...

Josh Jones, editor of Special Request Media has created an incredible map that traces every time traveling leap made by Doctor Sam Beckett throughout the entirety of the beloved classic series Quantum Leap. Additionally, Jones provided detailed information for each leap (episode, season and plot) as well as an ability to zoom in on each...

On Christmas Eve, a human with a rather large number of longhaired cats did what any parent would do and turned on the television. Specifically, a kitty-themed game was put on the giant television screen and all heads simultaneously stared at mice running across the screen. Some brave souls even tried to catch those elusive...

The Road Movie by director Dmitrii Kalashnikov is a wild documentary that offers fascinating insight into Russian life through the dashboard camera footage of its many drivers. Kalashnikov created the film solely out of this dashcam footage, which reveals that a great deal of very weird things happen all the time and the surprising number...

The feline-focused Japanese novelty company Felissimo has created an adorable cat bed shaped like the fluted crust of a fruit tart and even comes with hand stitched pillows in the shapes of various fruits and berries to keep kitty comfy and complete the look of a yummy desert. The bed fits cats of all sizes,...

Martin John Callanan, a talented artist, painstakingly reassembled a Bank of England Five Pound Note from a pile of misprinted, uncirculated shredded fivers. Callanan captured the entire reconstruction process in an amazing eleven-minute timelapse that shows just how much detail went into this piece. A Bank of England five pound note reconstructed from shredded production...

Danish BMW driving instructor Johan Schwartz drifted the new 2018 BMW M5 sport sedan a total of 232.5 miles around BMW Performance Center’s skid pad in Greer, South Carolina on December 11th, 2017. Schwartz set a new Guinness World Record for the greatest distance vehicle drift in 8 hours with help from Detroit Speed. They...

Security cameras in the town of Cobourg in Ontario, Canada captured the amazing sight of a wary fox facing off against a confident snowy owl during a cold winter’s night in early January. During this showdown, the fox paced back and forth, leaving a trail of tiny footprints in the freshly fallen snow while deciding...

Comedian Stephen Colbert partnered with Showtime to produce Our Cartoon President, an animated, satirical 10-episode series that presents both Donald Trump and his administration in a cartoonish parallel universe. The series originated from a segment that regularly appeared on The Late Show and takes on prescient concerns and current events. The series premieres Sunday, February...

On a high flying episode of Real Engineering, host Brian McManus of Galway, Ireland takes a look at the amazing technology behind vertical take-off and landing aircraft (VTOL). A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Nine Inch Nails’ Tension 2013 TourA Behind-The-Scenes Look at What Goes Into Building a BattleBots RobotThe Science Behind Spider-Man’s Powers

In a melodic episode of Things You Might Not Know, guest host 12tone explains via staff paper illustration, the history of Solresol, a language developed by violinist Jean-François Sudre in the 19th century that was completely constructed out of musical notes. The result was 3,000 words, each word having no more than four syllables. From...

When a nine year old black Labrador retriever named Hardy fell through the ice of the River Wansbeck near his Northumberland England home, Inspector Jaqui Miller from the Royal Society to Prevent Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) bravely pulled herself on hands and knees across the ice using a long-handled pick to reach Hardy’s location. Miller...

The Real Life Guys built a large flying bathtub drone that is capable of transporting a human from point A to point B. For their first mission, they flew the tub drone out to Kopp’s Bakery for a quick sandwich. A post shared by The Real Life Guys (@the_real_life_guys) on Jan 15, 2018 at 7:01am...

In November 2017, YouTuber Giovanni Erata posted the isolated tracks of Dolores O’Riordan‘s hauntingly poignant vocals as she sang the powerful lyrics of the Cranberries song “Zombie“. Sadly, on January 15, 2018, O’Riordan passed away from causes yet unknown. She was only 46 years old. When the Cranberries hit the charts in the early nineties...

A man in Houston was traveling down Highway 59 and captured amusing footage of a speedy remote-controlled car racing after a white truck, zooming past a few cars, and then getting off on an exit ramp. Remote-Controlled Car Fitted With a GoPro Camera Captures Fast Moving English Bulldog in the Throes of PursuitBig Rig With...

Two young girls shopping at Costco in Hawaii with their mom, radio personality Rella Rivera, insisted that cashier William Va’ana was Maui from Moana. Va’ana, being the awesome sport, humored the girls by having them stand beside him while he yelled Maui’s catchphrase, “Cheehoo!” A post shared by Rella (@rellaontheradio) on Jan 12, 2018 at...

TheCubician performed a unique cover of John Williams‘ classic “Cantina Band” song from Star Wars: A New Hope on a Rubik’s Cube while it was being solved. TheCubician was inspired by the Cantina Band song cover that Dani Ochoa performed by writing a formula on a piece of paper with a pencil. Star Wars Cantina...

In a highly attentive episode, Life Noggin, narrator Pat Graziosi aka Blocko addresses some conditions, issues and behaviors that may impede a person’s ability to falling asleep quickly. These concerns include consuming too much caffeine, eating protein too late in the day, the temperature of the room, the environment being to loud or too quiet,...

A post shared by Kieran Murray ? (@ryangodzilling) on Oct 13, 2017 at 11:37am PDT Los Angeles filmmaker and artist Kieran Murray has created Ryan Godzilling, a series of travel photos where Murray Photoshopped his plastic toy Godzilla figurine, named Ryan, into real world situations. Kieran’s full collection of photos are available to view on...

A post shared by ??????????_official (@triad_inc) on Dec 30, 2017 at 9:56pm PST The Japanese paper company Triad has created the wonderful Omoshiroi Block, a unique memo pad with an intricate design embedded inside that gets slowly revealed as the paper on the pad is used. Amongst these wondeful designs is a Kyoto building, a...

Dave and Pam Zaring hired “professional” photographer Lesa Hall to take a series of family photos. What the Zarings ended up receiving, instead, was a collection of hilariously edited images that features everyone’s face looking like a cartoon. According to Pam, “the shadows were really bad on the beautiful, clear, sunny day and her professor...

In a very illustrative video essay, Andrew Saladino of The Royal Ocean Film Society takes a look at legendary animator Richard Williams and his incredible ability to simulate fluid, three-dimensional camera movements just by decreasing the ratio to one drawing per frame. Most animation at the time was usually created with a 1:2 ratio, 1:4...

A really sweet asthmatic cat named Pretzel calmly sat still to breathe in the medicine his loving human was giving to him through a modified inhaler. According to his human, redditor Bac0nLegs, this isn’t the Pretzel’s favorite thing to do, but he’s gotten used to it and without using the inhaler twice per day, Pretzel...

Erin Graham of Charleston, South Carolina posted an amusing video of her husband, David, struggling outside with their two playful dogs as they hilariously refused to let him throw away the Christmas tree. Every time that David went to throw the tree over the fence, the two funny canines tried to tug it away from...

OCFA on scene in SANTA ANA of a vehicle into a building. One person still trapped inside the vehicle. pic.twitter.com/sWmtovu0Kd — OCFA PIO (@OCFA_PIO) January 14, 2018 The Orange County Fire Authority in Santa Ana, California released a photos of a car that launches off of a median at high speeds causing it to crash...

A post shared by John Wagner?? (@19john66) on Jan 3, 2018 at 2:01pm PST During every freezing, incredible balls of ice make an appearance upon the south shore of Lake Michigan, making it appear as if it’s composed of shiny rocks. This natural phenomenon occurs when sheets of ice break into smaller pieces that get...

On an amusing episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden from 2015, Jason Alexander got into character as George Costanza and re-recorded a personalized version of his classic voicemail message from Seinfeld for Kat Dennings. Here is the original scene from Seinfeld. Jason Alexander Re-Records Kat Dennings’ ‘Seinfeld’ Voicemail Greeting as George CostanzaJason...

A sweet little special needs rat named Pan eagerly chomped on a cracker that was almost as big as himself while hanging upside down, cradled in the comfort and safety of his human’s hands. When Pan was a baby, his human rescued him from a snake and provided him with a safe, happy home for...

Canadian outdoorsman, photographer, travel writer, and educator Shawn James of My Self Reliance created a stunning timelapse video that features James building a log cabin from scratch all by himself. A post shared by Shawn James (@myselfreliance) on Aug 24, 2017 at 12:13pm PDT A post shared by Shawn James (@myselfreliance) on Aug 26, 2017...

In a lighthearted BBC interview with Alastair Bruce, a smiling Queen Elizabeth II examined the iconic Imperial State Crown worn by both her father and herself during their respective Coronations and spoke delightedly about its jewels, its weight, how to wear such a heavy item and how to read while wearing this crown. It’s very...

A Griffith, Australia mother captured footage of her adorable infant, Huey, falling asleep at the wheel while driving his electric toy car. The sleepy kid continued to cruise around in circles, even while snoozing. Little Girl Fast Asleep Behind the Wheel of a Moving VehicleTired Kid Falls Asleep at the Wheel of His Toy Tractor...

A very curious black bird, perhaps a crow or raven, peered into a weather camera and hilariously photobombed a KTVU San Francisco weather report. Meteorologist Mark Tamayo was so amused by this aviary visitor, that he asked for more time to complete his segment. I might need a little more time for this weather segment...

Principal Chad Caddell of Union Pointe Academy in Florence, Kentucky had a little fun with his school snow day cancellation messages by singing covers of popular songs on the school’s Facebook page. Caddell put on a cowboy hat, a plaid shirt, and sang a wintry mix of Garth Brooks‘ country song “Friends in Low Places,”...