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In the first episode of the IMDb series “No Small Parts“, host Brandon Hardesty takes a look at veteran actor Michael Kelly, his role as Doug Stamper in House of Cards, the various roles he’s played over the years and how his unique looks allow him to easily play either good or evil. If you’ve […]

In a recent episode of Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler explains the difference between black tea and green tea, what the two teas have in common and the history of both. The difference between these teas is achieved via different processing methods. Manufacturers create green tea by picking the leaves off the plant […]

A photo posted by ??????????? (@yvonneellen) on Mar 29, 2015 at 12:32pm PDT British artist Yvonne Ellen has created a really wonderful line of recycled bone china dishes that have been ingeniously hand painted with adorable animals that aren’t complete without its accompanying dish. The dishes are available through for purchase through Yvonne’s website or […]

Dr. Tom Murphy of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, has created an incredibly illustrative video in which he outlines his incredible project and paper to create a “Portmantout” of the entire English language. For SIGBOVIK 2015 I built some software to create a portmanteau (which is where you jam two words together, […]

Posted by Sugar Bakers on Sunday, May 18, 2014 Confectioner Janet Best of Sugar Bakers Bakery in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania is an absolute artist when it comes to edible flowers. Using a minimal amount of ingredients, Best creates uniquely beautiful lollipops with these flowers embedded inside. Best is currently selling the lollies and other confections on Etsy […]

The wonderful human belonging to the infamous Maru and his equally amazing sister Hana wanted to find out whether his cats were right-pawed or left-pawed. In order to do so, he set up an amusing experiment to determine which paw was used reach a treat inside a glass. The fairly predictable Maru first tried to […]

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak discussed his formative moment in an interview with reddit. Wozniak talked about his first electronics project as a child, and how a journal he found at his father’s job helped him learn how computers operate, setting him on his path to Apple.

The submarine USS Hartford recently surfaced through a thick sheet of ice in the Arctic Circle near Ice Camp Sargo for Ice Exploration (ICEX) 2016. The crew will spend five weeks evaluating, testing, and researching the operational capabilities of the region while also doing scientific research. ICEX 2016 is a five-week exercise designed to assess the operational […]

COOPH, The Cooperative of Photography, pays tribute to action sports photography and all its glory. We love action sports photography, and this is our tribute to the photographers who travel the planet in their unrelenting pursuit of the perfect shot.

Curb Your Video is a new online tool by Dan Brill and Phillip Pastore that lets users add the music from Curb Your Enthusiasm over the end of any YouTube video to make it petty…pretty…awkward, in a Larry David kind of way. Users simply paste a link into the Create page and they can then adjust the duration of […]

Movie Munchies takes a look at five movies where the aspect ratio changed during the film.

The Let’s Melt This channel melted some pennies using the heat of the Sun by focusing it through a Fresnel lens. Melting pennies! We took a couple of pennies and placed them under extreme heat provided by a fresnel lens which is basically a giant magnifying glass. The solar power provided by the sun allowed […]

A photo posted by Tattoo You (@madebytattooyou) on Feb 15, 2016 at 7:40pm PST tattoo by Sasha Unisex Tattoo You is an online shop that produces amazing, high-quality temporary tattoos that were designed by famous tattoo artists like Sasha Unisex, Sasha Masiuk, Melissa Khouri, and more. Their full catalog of tattoos are available to purchase […]

Apple has announced new smaller devices in the iPhone and iPad Pro lines at a live event held at Apple’s Town Hall Theater in Cupertino, California. CEO Tim Cook began the event by discussing Apple’s commitment to defending user privacy in its current conflict with the FBI. The presentation included information about Apple’s renewable energy initiatives, and the ways the […]

Burger Fiction takes a look at how Batman has evolved over the years on television and in movies.

In a new instructional video, Household Hacker demonstrates how to make an amazing looking cloud light using cotton, bottles, Christmas lights, and glue. You can put this awesome project together in another 15-20 minutes and the results are absolutely stunning!

Cocktail Chemistry, the very helpful online guide to crafting lovely cocktails, demonstrated a process called directional freezing, The use of this process allows sediments within water to rise to the top and once frozen, be cut off of a block of ice, resulting in crystal clear cubes customizable to any size. Create beautiful, clear ice […]

Starting in ???????? on 3/21 and moving across the ????, we thank you for 10 incredible years. Love, Twitter#LoveTwitterhttps://t.co/pH4WWdgK6q — Twitter (@twitter) March 20, 2016 Today Twitter is celebrating their 10th anniversary. On March 21st, 2006, co-founder and current Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sent out the very first tweet. The rest is history. Happy birthday […]

Yesterday we introduced you to the world’s first autonomous pizza delivery vehicle – DRU.DRU has been enjoying all the… Posted by Domino's Australia on Friday, March 18, 2016 Domino’s Australia has introduced the DRU (Domino’s Robotic Unit), an autonomous pizza delivery robot. The DRU is a collaborative effort between the pizza chain and robotics company Marathon […]

Brian Kidd (a.k.a. “The Unipiper“) of Portland, Oregon recently dressed as Superman and drown out Ukulele Batman, who was jamming to the Batman theme song in the park, by playing the Superman theme full blast on his flaming bagpipes while passing by on a unicycle.

Actor Andrew Bowser, who portrayed fast-talking Satanist back in August 2015, made another notable appearance with his loquacious lexicon, this time portraying an employee of the fast-food chain Arby’s who witnessed an unfortunate accident at the restaurant. Perhaps the end of days was upon us but it turned out it was just disoriented old lady […]

Face2Face is a software project by a team at Stanford University led by assistant professor Matthias Nießner that allows users to control the faces of people in YouTube videos in real time by moving their own face in front of a standard webcam. The new system appears to be an upgrade from a similar project by Nießner that […]

In the latest of their “Honest Ads” series, Cracked has created a wondeful parody of the beauty industry with a fairly credible mock commercial that shows why the makeup shown on the model never looks the same when when applied at home. My race is beauty and its makeup can get you there. Not this […]

Port Dover, Ontario heavy metal drummer Joey Muha recently rocked out on his drum set while playing along to the classic children’s song, “I’m a Little Teapot.” via reddit

Satoru Iwata, former president and CEO of Nintendo, passed away last July at age 55. Earlier this month during the Game Developers Choice Awards at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Iwata was given a wonderful tribute in the form of a touching animated short created by Raber Umphenour, Shawne Benson, David Hellman, and […]

UK creator Andy Elliott (a.k.a. “Mist8k“) recently provided a step-by-step video demonstration showing how to make a miniature Leonardo da Vinci style catapult from a wooden ruler. We previously wrote about his tutorial on how to make a miniature wooden crossbow.

A hungover baby regrets drinking so much the night before in a comedy video by Woodsie. The video used a face swapping app to put Woodsie’s face over his young child. Another video using the same technique features a drunk baby determined to drive and get tacos.

Bialy, a Yiddish word short for bialystoker kuchen from Bialystok. …Unlike a bagel, which is boiled before baking, a bialy is simply baked, and instead of a hole in the middle it has a depression. (via Wikipedia) Kossar’s Bakery, the oldest bialy bakery in the United States, has been baking up bialy goodness on Grand […]

Mr Sunday Movies looks at the easter eggs, secret cameos and references in season two of Daredevil. The characters that hint at range from the likes of Iron man, Captain America, Thor and the Hulk to Killdozer. I know right, who is that? It doesn’t matter. But you also gets easter eggs that link Jessica […]

Ever the adorable clown, the wonderful Edith the Dachshund impressively ran an agility course specially created for tiny dogs such as herself. While Edith may have gotten a teeny bit confused midway through, she performed exceptionally nonetheless. Here's a video of me doing a full agility course…plus a few extra obstacles of my own accord! […]

A photo posted by @ludwik_guinea_pig on Mar 3, 2016 at 2:29am PST A wonderfully confident hairless guinea pig named Ludwik in Warsaw, Poland enjoys posing for his human, student Agata Nowacka, in a variety of different poses using all sorts of props and accessories, proudly showing off his unusual beauty with style. Ludwik, who was […]

Hydraulic Press Channel is back with a new video for their ongoing series of crushing experiments, this time they see what happens when bubble wrap is crushed with a hydraulic press.

Vox created a compilation highlighing 28 times that television shows paid tribute to iconic movice scenes. If you’ve ever sat down to watch a TV show and, in the middle of a scene, felt a sense of déjà vu, you’re not alone. Since the dawn of television, TV writers, directors, and cinematographers have paid respect […]

Amazon has released the trailer for season two of their hilarous romantic comedy original series Catastrophe, which will be available for streaming on April 8, 2016. Times have changed for the turbulent lovers in Season 2 as their whirlwind courtship settles into the everyday of a long-term marriage and parenting. Rob and Sharon will work […]

HBO has just released the new trailer for season three of their hilarious tech industry, startup scene comedy series Silicon Valley, which premiers on April 24, 2016.

“I breastfed the yellow people.” In a recent clip from The Graham Norton Show, Tracey Ullman explains why she is the mother of The Simpsons, which began as a series of animated shorts on her series The Tracey Ullman Show.

A video posted by Fazza (@faz3) on Mar 10, 2016 at 8:14am PST An active thunderstorm in Dubai recently lit up the city’s skyline including the world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa. The storm was shot in 1977fps slow motion by Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum (Fazza on Instagram). via PetaPixel

Rolling Stone recently went behind-the scenes with stunt and fight coordinator Philip J. Silvera to find out how he created the epic fight scenes for season two of Daredevil, which is available to stream on Netflix. A veteran of films like The Dark Knight Rises and Deadpool, Silvera is the guy who makes the martial-arts […]

ElectricStyles has created a line of light up sound activated LED ties. The ties come in a variety of styles including striped, diamond, and equalizer patterns that react to music and other sounds. via The Red Ferret, Technabob

At an Oscar Academy New Members Reception in 2013, the phenomenal actor Bryan Cranston offered some very sound advice about how aspiring actors should approach the concept of an audition. About 18 years ago, I had this cognition, I realized that I was going in to auditions trying to get a job. And that simply […]

While hanging out at the annual SXSW event in Austin, Texas, actors Christian Slater and Rami Malek, from the sleeper hit show Mr. Robot, sat down with Mashable Watercooler and answered a number of questions about their technology preferences and habits. The questions included such things as emoticons, favorite online animals, how to properly pronounce […]

In his latest video, Evan “The Nerdwriter” Puschak takes a look at the stunning work of legendary American photographer Ansel Adams and the process he would go through in order to ensure that the photo he was taking matched the image in his mind’s eye. This process, called visualization, played a large role in Adams’ […]

Quinn Muller, a 13-year-old boy in San Francisco, very cleverly conceived, edited and produced a solo version of the song “Right Hand Man” by Lin-Manuel Miranda from Hamilton, An American Musical, in which he played the roles of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Aaron Burr along with all of the backup dancers and chorus. Thanks to […]

Russian designer Nikita has created a wonderfully whimsical set of concept packaging that uses different types of pasta to compose fabulous hairstyles in the cut-out around the illustrated face of a woman on the front of each box. images via Nikita via Packaging of the World, DesignTAXI

Artist Akko Goldenbeld has created Stadsmuziek (City Music), a scale model of the city of Eindhoven, Netherlands built around a cylinder that is then turned to play a piano. Placed on a revolving wooden cylinder the buildings set little hammers in motion that play the keys of a piano. And turning and turning, the city makes […]

The team at Freakin Rad created an thrilling live action trailer for Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix‘s action-adventure video game, Rise of the Tomb Raider. Lara Croft (Renny Grames) scales icy mountains, battles enemies, and faces dangerous wildlife as she pushes to discover the mysteries of the unknown. Fans of Freakin Rad can help support […]

In an absolutely adorable video posted by Megabattie, a small mob of orphaned eastern grey kangaroo joeys hung safely off the wall in makeshift pouches made from blankets at an Australian rescue center. Each little roo made him/herself comfortable which, for one, meant dragging his ears in his food without a care in the world. […]

UK creator Andy Elliott (a.k.a. “Mist8k“) recently offered a step-by-step video demonstration showing how to make a miniature wooden crossbow that shoots toothpicks. A photo posted by Andy Elliott (@andy_elliott_) on Mar 11, 2016 at 8:06am PST via The Awesomer

Mona Lisa Serbian artist Sanja Jankovic shared her beautiful collection of paintings that are each made entirely of different types of fine wines including Riesling, Chardonnay, Sauvignon blanc for white and Merlot, Pinot noir, and Cabrenet Sauvignon for black. Sanja’s entire series of paintings are available to view on her Winerelle Vinoreli Facebook page and […]

The iRobot Braava Jet mopping robot is the latest design from the company that created the Roomba. The small robot uses a jet of fluid and a variety of insertable cleaning pads to scrub different hard floor surfaces. The Braava Jet uses programming and an array of sensors similar to the Roomba to navigate a room and […]