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In 2006 Matt Rutledge, the founder of Woot! and partners launched Wine.Woot, a unique community model of online wine sales. The wine, came directly from the producers and were shipped directly to consumers, eliminating the need for a middleman. A community grew organically from of this consumer base and the site became a place to...

Unusualist Raymond Crowe showed off his talents on an old episode of the Australian television series, Spicks and Specks, when he performed an amazing display of shadow puppetry along to the song “What A Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong. via reddit Louis Armstrong’s “What A Wonderful World”, The Death Metal VersionCookie Monster vs. Al Pacino...

An adorable little budgie named Kiwi demonstrated his ability to perfectly imitate the sound of a zipper upon request whenever his human zipped and unzipped an earphones case in front of him. After a short while though, Kiwi began doing the impression just upon seeing the distinctive black case. Kiwi’s human explained why Kiwi is...

Dawid Szmandra of Poland created a giant 24 foot tall fully functioning remote controlled model of a Liebherr LR 11000 crane. Szmandra’s full collection of photos are available to view on Flickr. Made 99.9% of LEGO, exceptions are PRINTED pulley wheels, stickers, strings. Slewing ring is made 100% of LEGO. I used minifig heads as...

12Medbe Network, a faithful fan of the sublime and hilarious live improvisational comedy show Whose Line Is it Anyway?, has put together a comprehensive compilation and calculation of point assignments made by host Drew Carey during the first eight seasons of the show. Being that Carey was constantly and indiscriminately handing out points without rhyme...

Cinematographer Tim Sessler used his iPhone 8 and Freefly‘s new Movi gimbal to create “VORTEX,” a beautiful short video featuring a dizzying trip through New York City as the phone’s camera rotates. via Vimeo Staff Picks Run 4 Cover, Nigel Sylvester Biking Through New York CityNew York Year, Time-Lapse Film Featuring a Year in New...

When it was her turn to open presents, a beautiful chocolate lab named Sadie climbed off the couch, located her gift and eagerly tore off the wrapping paper to see what was inside. The gift turned out to be a giant tennis ball with which Sadie immediately began playing. She did become a little frustrated...

Ben Actis captured the heartwarmingly hilarious sight of his 85 year old Italian grandmother as she learned how to interact with her new Google Home Mini. It took a bit of time, but when his grandmother got a response from the device, she jumped back and said that she was scared. My 85 year old...

A team of Japanese researchers from the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at The University of Tokyo have created two humanoid robots, named Kengoro and Kenshiro, to help with the design of future crash test dummies, prosthetic limbs, and better understand how humans move. The robots are able to perform human-like movements, exercise,...

The Q channel demonstrates how to make a flipbook animation machine from cardboard. They used a scene from The Simpsons, featuring Bart, for reference. I’m a big fan of Simpsons so I chose Bart Simpson as animation model but you can use any animation you want (even draw one) :) Follow steps from this video...

A post shared by The Eggs-hibit? (@the_eggshibit) on Dec 23, 2017 at 1:31pm PST Mexican artist Michele Baldini has created The Eggs-hibit, a series of photos that feature fried eggs on a skillet that he turned into delicious works of art. He features everything from pop culture references to beautiful landscapes. A post shared by...

Verne Troyer unboxed Radio Flyer‘s new Tesla Model S battery powered ride-on car for kids that he bought from a charity event. Troyer “rides dirty” while drifting and cruising around his home at 6 MPH. I bought myself a gift for the holidays. 6mph, electric, and black rims. This thing is a beast! Hope everyone...

Filmmakers Gavin Heffernan of Sun Chaser Pictures and Harun Mehmedinovic who are collaborating in the ongoing Skyglow project, captured as a timelapse video, the remarkable sight of an inverted cloud being formed within the bowl of the Grand Canyon. They follow its foggy progress over and through the canyons, during the day and at night....

Connor Margetts, the proud human to Dacelo, a laughing kookaburra, decided to record the bird’s distinctive quality to see what it would sound like in slow motion. While the kookaburra is a relatively small kingfisher, the tone coming out of that slow motion laugh seemed like it belonged to a great ape of some sort,...

In February 2017, Norwegian photographer Ole Salomonsen of Arctic Light Photo captured the absolutely breathtaking sight of a lone reindeer with a head full of antlers seemingly becoming smaller than his sizeable stature, as he was immersed in the gorgeous green and purple light display of the shimmering Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights). Reindeer and aurora...

While promoting their new book Amazing Animals: Packed Full of Your Most-Loved Animal Friends, the Guinness World Records Editor-in-Chief Craig Glenday took a tour of the longstandding Battersea Dog & Cats Home. Throughout the tour, Glenday met a number of the animals who are temorarily staying at the shelter while waiting for their forever home...

xkcd suggests a few creative phone security options that could be added to help discourage theft. …wait until they type in payment information, then use it to order yourself a replacement phone. Grand Theft Auto V Mod Replaces Sticky Bombs With Exploding Samsung Galaxy Note 7 PhonesStreet Photography V, A Photo Series Shot Entirely in...

A post shared by Fox Wildlife Photos Fineart (@roeselienraimond) on Dec 13, 2017 at 7:16am PST In 2016, we wrote about Dutch wildlife photographer Roeselien Raimond and her gorgeous Foxy Faces portrait series. In her more recent series “Red Foxes in the Snow“, Raimond has once again captured the wonderfully personalities of individual vulpines as...

Bad Lip Reading released “Christmas Is Here!,” a hilarious musical parody of Donald Trump that features the 45th President attempting to sing a song about Christmas. Trump gets a little help from his wife and first lady, Melania, as well as animatronic robot Trump located at Disney’s Hall of Presidents. A Bad Lip Reading of...

Scott Bradlee, the very talented musician and founder of Postmodern Jukebox, performed an amazing jazz piano cover of the rather catchy theme song from the sublime animated series Rick and Morty. Here’s my jazz version of the “Rick And Morty” theme song (with a little bit of “Get Schwifty” thrown in for good measure). A...

The film and television analysis platform ScreenPrism, who has previously offered excellent analysis of a great number of series and movies, examines why love is so elusive in the world of Star Wars. Using the examples of Rey and Kylo Ren in The Last Jedi, Leia Organa and Han Solo in Return of the Jedi,...

A few of weeks before Christmas, an excited golden retriever name Cook eagerly opened up a box meant for him. Waiting inside was a brand new golden retriever puppy. Cook and the puppy became fast friends, showing immediate affection for one another. According to Cook’s human Marie Ahonen, Cook been a bit lonely since his...

Ami Yamato, a 3D animated vlogger from London that does not appear to know she is virtual, released a new video where she is edited into Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Yamato made Kylo Ren‘s blood boil by enjoying a soothing massage chair, beating him in a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors and poking fun at how...

Chain reaction and domino artist Steve Price (a.k.a. “Sprice Machines“) posted a video of a little red ball going on an incredible pegboard wall mounted chain reaction adventure filled with mind-blowing tricks. Inspired by Biisuke Ball and Magnets and Marbles. Wall mounted tricks are my favorite type of chain reaction tricks and I discovered a...

YouTuber bethyalamode dropped a GoPro camera into their water well to see what exactly was down there. The 110-foot trip turned out to be quite fascinating as they ventured past caves inside of limestone. Our well drilling report from Barney Moravec mentioned that there were caves in the limestone at 110′. What could that possibly...

Japanese app developer Kazuya Noshiro of ViRD posted a video on Twitter that shows him using an iPhone X to make his face invisible. You can look right through Noshiro’s face, to the wall behind him. iPhoneX?????????????????? pic.twitter.com/aPXJcHi8Y4 — ??? (@noshipu) December 27, 2017 via DesignTAXI A Clever Trained Cat Abandons His Own Bell to...

Concerned about effect of trash upon the environment, the Indonesian company Evoware has turned to the plentiful and sustainable resource of seaweed to make their cleverly designed line of environmentally friendly, biodegradable product packaging. The packaging is perfect for food as the seaweed although tasteless, is completely edible and nutritious. It can also be used...

Robert Carlson of 5 Mad Movie Makers captured footage of a Hot Wheels diecast car and a custom 3D printed camera car speeding through his incredible backyard race track. Slow Motion Footage of Hot Wheels Cars Doing Incredible Flips, Twists, and Jumps on a TrackPOV Footage of Cars Racing to the Finish on a Large...

The wonderfully informative series The Infographics Show explains through entertaining animation, what daily life looks like in Vatican City, the smallest non-sovereign country in the world, in terms of its government, its population, its money, its workforce population and its financial reliance upon tourism. It functions like a country in other ways – such as...

Los Angeles baker and author Rosanna Pansino of Nerdy Nummies posted a tasty tutorial where she shows how to make galaxy themed cupcakes. Pansino’s full recipe is available to view on her website and in The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook. A post shared by Rosanna Pansino (@rosannapansino) on Dec 26, 2017 at 10:11am PST A post...

Jordan Wilson posted an amazing timelapse video that shows him slowly aging from 13 to 23 years old in a little over four minutes. December 25th 2007 – 25th December 2017 (Age 13 years, 5 months – 23 years, 5 months) via reddit A Father Creates an Amazing Timelapse of His Daughter Aging From 0...

Primitive Technology demonstrated how to make a variety of different pottery and a functioning stove out of clay that was gathered from a newly discovered location. I made some pottery from the clay in the new area to see how well it performed. A large bank of clay was exposed by the side of the...

A post shared by Matt Wilson (@airtightartwork) on Nov 28, 2017 at 1:08pm PST Artist Matt Wilson of Airtight Artwork crafts really beautiful sculptures of birds out of recycled kitchen utensils and tools. The birds are incredibly detailed to the point where the individual pieces of silverware are no longer seen, but instead the entirety...

A post shared by Gabriel Dishaw (@gabrieljunkart) on Dec 24, 2017 at 7:35am PST Artist Gabriel Dishaw has created a brilliant series of Star Wars busts and sculptures that utilize old Louis Vuitton purses and bags that have been discarded by their previous owners in one way or another. The distinctive logo helps to add...

During the 1985 recording of the USA for Africa song “We Are the World“, the famous singers and musicians who were working well into the night broke out into a spontaneous version of “Banana Boat Song (Day O)” in honor of singer Harry Belafonte. Inspired by the Band Aid supergroup song “Do They Know It’s...

The short documentary “Beatrice” tells the story of Beatrice Vio a talented Italian fencing champion, who started the sport at the age of five. When she turned 12, her arms and legs were tragically amputated due to the necrosis that formed in her limbs by a severe case of meningitis. Rather than giving up fencing...

With 2018 almost here, a very wise Simon’s Cat offers up some helpful advice regarding New Year’s resolutions for his beleaguered human through a series of amusing vignettes designed to inspire a little motivation for the coming year. It’s that time of year when New Year Resolutions are decided! Watch our Guide To film to...

Mat Taylor of the interesting tech blog and YouTube channel, Techmoan, took a look the Roland MT-80S, a portable music player from the late 1990s that plays MIDI music stored on a 3.5″ floppy disk. via The Awesomer Yann Tiersen’s Song ‘Comptine D’Un Autre Été: L’Après Midi’ From the Film ‘Amélie’ Played on Floppy and...

Artist Steve Richter of Regal Robot posted a marvelous timelapse video of him sculpting a gladiator version of the Hulk From Thor: Ragnarok. We previously wrote about Richter’s Chewbacca sculpture. A post shared by Steven Richter (@richter_steven) on Oct 23, 2017 at 10:02pm PDT A post shared by Steven Richter (@richter_steven) on Nov 26, 2017...

In a rather dizzying episode of “Things You Might Not Know“, host Tom Scott explains via a constantly rotating camera courtesy of Matt Gray, how a moving image captured on video can be both two dimensional and three dimensional at the same time. This feature is called the Pulfrich effect, which states a moving object...

British puzzle maker Tony Fisher, who built the world’s largest and smallest Rubik’s Cube puzzle, is back with a new video where he shows off how he is able to make a functioning Rubik’s Cube out of ice. An Enormous 1.57-Meter Working Rubik’s Cube Breaks the Guinness World RecordA Rubik’s Cube Battenberg Style CakeFirst-Person Video...

Eric Flavin and his team at Phantom F have created the Opendo, an amazing garage door opener that looks just like a classic Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) controller. Phantom F is raising funds on Kickstarter to help with production costs. As a child of the 80’s maybe there was more to your life than Nintendo...

After eating his holiday meal, rather serene and sated corn snake named Spaghetti relaxed comfortably on the couch, clad in a knitted purple tube sweater. This sweater was a handmade Christmas gift from the sister of Spaghetti’s human. My sister made my pet snake a sweater! Spaghetti is a corn snake. Super nice, doesn’t bite...

Video blogger and web producer Evan Puschak aka The Nerdwriter took a detailed look at the Fleetwood Mac song “Dreams” from the iconic album Rumors and explained how the song was written by Stevie Nicks on piano, how producer Ken Caillat incorporated the different instruments into the two chord song, which of those sounds stood...

To celebrate the world of cinema this past year, CLS Videos created a fantastic supercut video featuring scenes from movies released in 2017. Supercut of Characters Laughing in MoviesA Supercut of Every 2017 Oscar Nominated FilmSupercut of Will Ferrell Yelling in Movies

A sweet little Janus kitten (born with two faces) named Bettie Bee was born on December 12, 2017 in Eastern Cape, South Africa along with a litter of healthy normal kittens. Knowing she would need a great deal of attention that they wouldn’t be able to provide, the family placed the kitten with a very...

The Canadian company, Beardo, has create an awesome collection of realistic animal face ski masks. Their playful ski masks depicting dogs, cats, orangutans, and pandas are available to purchase from their shop. We previously wrote about Beardo’s wonderful Beard Hat and Beardo Baubles beard Christmas ornaments. A post shared by BEARDO® Official (@beardowear) on Jan...

Looper created a fantastic compilation video featuring some of the funniest, most unexpected movie and television show bloopers that happened while filming death scenes. It’s always sad to watch your favorite character shuffle off this mortal coil. But it’s even worse for the actors involved, who often have to film these emotionally difficult scenes over...

The Auralnauts created an amusing video where Kylo Ren gives a “calm” and honest review of the newly released Star Wars: The Last Jedi film. Kylo Ren Reacts to the New ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ TrailerFirst ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Trailer Features the Return of Rey, Finn, Poe, Kylo, and LukeKylo Ren Gives...

When photographer Jesse Walters found out that SpaceX would be launching their Falcon 9 Rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, California, he set up his gear and captured an absolutely gorgeous timelapse of the incredible launch. This particular launch was close to my hometown in Yuma, Arizona, roughly 400 miles away but...