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In honor of Christmastime, Puddles Pity Party, the golden-throated sad clown, performed a cosmic cover of the classic Christmas carol “Do You Hear What I Hear” in gorgeous three part harmony against a bright constellation of stars. I don’t know what it is, but when I hear Holiday music I can’t help but feel we...

Artist Susan Aitken created a beautifully elaborate gingerbread house from scratch; patiently designing, baking, cutting, decorating and building the home she calls the “Old Mill Studio“, inspired by the mill (Moulin) at Hameau de la Reine in Versaille. The entire process was captured in a wonderful timelapse. The long awaited Old Mill Studio, my gingerbread...

In the truly fascinating short film “Santa Is a Psychedelic Mushroom“, with animation by James Bascara and Ben Silberstein, filmmaker Matthew Salton for The New York Times dug deep into a valided theory positing that psychedelic mushrooms that were used in ancient shamanistic rituals of Lapland tribes can explain much of the modern mythology that...

Joseph Herscher of Joseph’s Machines, who calls himself an inventor of useless machines, shared the very creative solution he found to easily wrap presents using a bicycle wheel, a roll of tape and a length of rope. He also hilariously demonstrated his tree decorating machine, which might be a bit hard on the environment. I...

In a humorous instructional video, a helpful Australian woman very patiently demonstrated how to wrap your cat in a cozy swaddling of colorful wrapping paper in order to sit under the tree amongst the other presents to be opened at Christmas. Note: this method works best with a cat who isn’t particularly active or aggressive....

Once safely ensconsed inside his warm home again, Lucas the Spider, the adorable animated arachnid by Joshua Slice who thought he had too many eyes went for a wonderful slippery ride around the bathroom sink, carefully avoiding the drain as he slid around. After a few times around the sink, Lucas became curious about that...

xkcd has compiled some little known facts and figures about Santa Claus on this Christmas day. We’ve gotten him up to 20% milk and cookies through an aggressive public campaign, but that seems to be his dietary limit. Anything above that and he starts developing nutritional deficiencies. A Series of Festive Facts About Holiday SongsJimmy...

Real Life Lore offers very helpful advice regarding the safest place to be should a zombie apocalypse escape the realm of fiction and make its way into a bleak reality. Taking the most logical tact, he suggests that water may be the safest place because zombies are thought to not be able to swim, but...

In a surprising episode of the CNN culinary show Parts Unknown, Chef Sean Brock accompanied a rather skeptical Anthony Bourdain on his very first visit to a Waffle House. Brock was very familiar with the menu, as he grew up in southwest Virginia and had a singular recommendation for Bourdain – the pecan waffle. Bourdain...

An absolutely gorgeous Alaskan malamute named Nikon adorably and patiently taught his little puppy sister Mocha how to howl in the most wonderfully instructive way. Sitting by her side, Nikon kept his powerful voice ringing through Mocha’s vocal fits and starts, until she began to get the hang of it. According to their human, Danish...

In a Sao Paulo, Brasil mall, a beautiful golden retriever in a Santa Hat playfully posed in a Christmas tree display full of animatronic versions of himself. It’s difficult to tell whether or not this was a planned event, either way, however, the optics were perfect. Creepy Santa Display at Theme Park in Ho Chi...

In 1956, a tiny newborn gorilla was found on the floor of the gorilla habitat at the Columbus Zoo, still enclosed in the amniotic sac and unable to breathe. The resident veterinarian took the tiny primate, cut open the sac and got her breathing again. This gorilla was Colo, the first gorilla ever to be...

A post shared by lucy litman (@lucialitman) on Jun 6, 2017 at 10:16am PDT San Francisco artist and photographer Lucy Litman has created a wonderful series of photos featuring assortments of delicious looking foods, drinks, and treats that are paired up with their matching Pantone color. More photos from Litman’s yummy series are available to...

In a comedy sketch by Third Leg Studios, a man opens up Christmas presents from his family and quickly finds out that they were not purchased with him in mind, but for their own selfish selves. A Chaos Christmas Carol with Chicken John and friends…Quirky the Blind KittenCat in a Shark Costume Rides Around on...

In a very clever parody of a typical daytime television life insurance commercial from Late Night with Seth Meyers, three women sat around a kitchen table at a suburban house clad in very tasteful outfits, playing gin and complaining about how to invest for retirement. One woman stated her Bitcoin strategy and proceeded to explain...

In a brilliant, funny and very prescient comedy sketch by British duo Tom and Hubert, a bearded man (Tom Hanson) who disappeared out to sea on New Year’s Eve 2016 returns to shore during the last few days of 2017. He is greeted by a suited man in a bowler hat (Hubert Burton) who fills...

Steeplejack and TV personality Fred Dibnah demonstrates how to build scaffolding on a 200-foot chimney stack. YouTube user dovecott shared more videos featuring Disbnah’s classic chimney repair and demolition demonstrations. via b3ta.com A Demonstration of How to Build a 10-Foot-Tall Fire Tornado as Safely as PossibleA Daring Descent Down the Outside of 920 Foot High...

The True Meaning of Christmas by xkcd They all made fun of Autometalogolex, but someday there will be a problem with Christmas that can only be solved if Santa somehow gets a serious headache, and then they'll see. The Official Trailer for ‘Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever’ on Lifetime Features Grumpy Cat Being GrumpyHow To...

When comedian and The Carson Podcast host Mark Malkoff expressed concern that the dogs of New York City have never really been able to participate in the beloved tradition of Christmas carolling. In order to assuage this concern, he and a small group of friends went to the giant Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center, scoped...

A post shared by Randy Lewis Creative (@randylewiscreative) on Dec 5, 2017 at 11:43pm PST Irvine, California artist and Devise Interactive creative director Randy Lewis has created the This or That Series, a collection where he mashed two or more ordinary objects together in Adobe Photoshop to make one extraordinary object. Lewis’ full series of...

The musically inclined father behind the YouTube channel, Songs With My Daughter, got a little help from his entire family while performing a beautiful multitrack a capella cover of the popular song “Don’t Worry Be Happy” by Bobby McFerrin. Their cover helped to calm dad’s adorable little 4-month-old baby daughter. Here are a few more...

In an amusing clip from the BBC Earth documentary Polar Bear: Spy on The Ice, an inquisitive young polar bear in Svalbard, Norway investigated a camouflaged snowcam, unsure of its purpose. As polar bears do with unknown objects, the juvenile pressed down hard on the camera a number of times until the “indestructible” camera was...

Great Big Story traveled to Midland, Michigan to visit the Charles W. Howard Santa School, the longest running Santa school in the world. Like a previous visit to a different Santa school, Great Big Story toured the festive classrooms where lots of jolly bearded men (and some non-bearded women) were learning such skills as toy...

A post shared by Nick Pease (@nickapease) on Nov 23, 2017 at 8:41pm PST Nick Pease captured awesome footage of his cousin, Austin Reid, pulling off a wizardly level Jenga move. Reid was able to quickly pull a single wooden block out from the center of a giant stack and kept it standing up. Their...

Gerry Litwin posted an impressive video of a talented co-worker playing the classic holiday song, “Carol of the Bells,” on her ugly Christmas sweater that’s equipped with multiple bells. Her musical outfit helped her win the company’s annual ugly sweater contest. via reddit Comedian Brian Posehn Performs Carol of the Bells in Four Part Harmony...

Tennessee designer Isaac Botkin and his composer brother Benjamin Botkin worked together to created an absolutely incredible animated Star Wars timelapse video that provides a visual of how the Death Star‘s entire construction process might have looked. I realize that there have been quite a few space animation posts recently, but bear with me. This...

FiveThirtyEight created a chart that explores how many of each Star Wars lightsaber color there are, both canon and the expanded universe stories. Their research brought them to 132 different lightsabers. For all the problems of the Jedi order, one thing can be unanimously agreed upon: They have some pretty sweet laser swords. Can the...

Neil deGrasse Tyson, the wonderful astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium went onto the CNN morning program New Day to talk about the 2004 video of an unidentified flying object that was released by the Department of Defense and offered his uniquely humorous, scientific and logical view of the situation. When asked if he...

A post shared by Shelby Madere (@piggypoo_and_crew) on Dec 15, 2017 at 6:44am PST A big, beautiful pot bellied pig named PiggyPoo is part of an incredible extended family that includes her five adorable rescued canine siblings (Rika, Slick, Nya, James, Bashe and Chowder) and Shelby Madere, the wonderful human who has provided a home...

Tim Whitaker, a talented filmmaker and aerial photographer in New Zealand, captured gorgeous drone footage of thousands of sheep being herded en masse from one paddock to another in the hill country town of Rangitikei. The overhead view of the moving sheep is absolutely mesmerizing, particularly as the visual perception of the animals switches from...

In an episode from his series Ultra Spiritual Life, self-professed millennial lifestyle guru JP Sears, who once taught a course on becoming gluten intolerant, condescendingly mansplained the basic concepts of Bitcoin, bragged about his purchases and freely admitted that he shames his friends for not buying when he said to do so. I do a...

The Australian comedy team of David Ashby and Dario Russo aka Dinosaur created a hilariously absurd parody of a 1970s style documentary about specific animals found around the continent. This includes a koala bear with an expandable neck who only eats ham and cheese croissants and from whom the wilderness wifi emerges. The wombat is...

Sam Gorski and Niko Pueringer of Corridor Digital created an amusing new video where they add Animoji faces from the iPhone X over characters from popular television shows. They feature shows like Arrested Development, Game of Thrones, and Stranger Things. A post shared by Corridor Digital (@corridordigital) on Dec 15, 2017 at 4:06pm PST Movie...

Matt Robison of MTR Designs created the Ferroflow, an art display that creates all sorts of amazing visuals with the use of ferrofluid and magnetic fields. It is available to purchase from the MTR Designs shop. Ferrofluid (a portmanteau of ferromagnetic and fluid) is a liquid that becomes strongly magnetized in the presence of a...

In a rather helpful episode of his video series “Abroad in Japan“, British expatriate and teacher Chris Broad, offers some very important tips regarding Japanese etiquette, specifically what not to do while visiting Japan. Subjects include eating/drinking while walking, chopstick manners, tipping, transit mindfulness amongst several others. I actually did most of my reading about...

Nick Carefoot of NUMERAL vi shared old footage from 1994 of a 13-year-old Seth Rogen performing stand-up for the first time in Vancouver, Canada at a lesbian bar called The Lotus. Here is Rogen talking about the experience with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show last year. Carefoot also shared footage of Seth performing stand-up...

“CamperForce” is a brilliant yet sobering short documentary by Brett Story, Field of Vision and Jessica Bruder. The film, which is adapted from Bruder’s book “Nomadland”, tells the story about workampers – older people who were bankrupted by the Great Recession of 2008 and decided to downsize their lives in every way they could. Living...

Finnish couple Lauri Vuohensilta and Anni Vuohensilta of the Beyond the Press channel teamed up with Neverthink to capture slow motion footage of an antique television being blown to smithereens with explosive detonating cord. Christmas Tree Made Out of Detonating Cord Exploding in Super Slow MotionThe Hydraulic Press Channel and Swedish Dynamite Team Up to...

The Supporting Act is a wonderful 2017 short animated Christmas film, created by the talented folks at BBC One, about a young girl who works hard for her school’s holiday talent show. Her hard-working father, however, finds it hard to spend time with her, until she really needs him. The loving father and nervous daughter...

While in quick pursuit of a feathery fishing rod toy, a tiny kitten came around an entryway corner, slipped a bit on the shiny tile floor and then impressively scaled a yellow wall, almost to the ceiling in hopes of securing the evasive prey. Seven Maine Coon Kittens Perform Synchronized Head Bobbing Routine In Visual...

Maker and builder Sean Hodgins created an brilliant Christmas ornament that taps into YouTube and displays a festive loop of classic Christmas commercials from the 1990s. The impressive ornament was brought to life from a 3D printed shell, a 2.2″ TFT LCD screen, and a Raspberry Pi Zero W. Hodgins shared his complete tutorial and...

A very festive Gina Rodriguez invited Joe Sabia of Condé Nast Entertainment into her Los Angeles home to answer 73 random questions for Vogue. Twirling around in a flowy green dress, Rodriguez lovingly spoke about her family, her favorite places to visit, learning to box, her belief in hope and empathy, and her wish for...

Boston native Mark Wahlberg, who was once known as rapper “Marky Mark“, sat down with Vogue to define a series of slang terms and expressions that he heard and used while growing up in Dorchester. He also took the extra step of affecting the distinct area accent while putting the words into the context of...

Brett Wilson and Ellen DeAngelis of BackYard Chickens built an out of this world UFO chicken coop spaceship from two old aluminum satellite dishes that were stacked on top of each other. They beefed up the coop with insulation to fight off the Idaho winters, a waterproof barrier, and reflective paint to help push the...

A creepy alien popped out of a newspaper dispenser and scared unsuspecting pedestrians in New York City in an elaborate staged prank. The stunt was created as a promotion for the upcoming 11th season of The X-Files by Thinkmodo, the same viral advertising agency behind the promotional stunt for Carrie and Devil’s Due. Season 11...

Bright stars Will Smith and Joel Edgerton sat down with Wired to answer the web’s most searched questions about the themselves during an Autocomplete Interview. What is Will Smith’s IQ? Who did Joel Edgerton play in Star Wars? Who is Will Smith’s best friend? Matt Damon and Julianne Moore Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions...

In a loopy episode of “Simon’s Cat Logic” entitled “What do cats want for Christmas?“, animator Simon Toland and animal behaviorist Nicky Trevorrow explain why catnip is so attractive to those of the feline persuasion, what type of reactions cats have to catnip, the safety of catnip and some creative ways to incorporate catnip onto...

A post shared by Avocado Stone Faces (@avocadostonefaces) on Nov 8, 2017 at 2:56am PST Irish artist Jan Campbell of Avocado Stone Faces, has created a beautiful line of pendants, each featuring exquisitely detail designs that are all made from the pit or stone of an avocado fruit. Much of Campbell’s work is focused on...

A post shared by Chunky Aka Monkey (@bigchunkymonkey) on Nov 5, 2017 at 11:10am PST An absolutely adorable English bulldog named Monkey must have a very good and trusting nature, because it appears that whenever he falls asleep on his back, his humans waste no time stacking different foods such as marshmallows, potato chips, donuts,...