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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...

News Be Funny presents a funny compilation video of some of the best news bloopers from 2017. A Compilation of April 2016 News BloopersA Compilation of September 2016 News BloopersA Compilation of July 2016 News Bloopers

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...