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The Ultimate Toolbox is a compact and organized toolbox built into the inside of an oil drum. The unit has three rotating compartments with hooks for mounting tools, space on the floor to organize smaller pieces, and the entire drum is mounted on wheels so it can be moved to wherever it’s needed. via Gifsboom

In the latest episode of NOVA’s Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers, a grown up Danica McKellar, who’s most widely known as Winnie Cooper from the classic television show The Wonder Years, spoke about how she went from a promising career in acting to an even more promising career in math, how she became known […]

Science Magazine explains, through a really informative animated video, how researchers discovered that dogs may have more than one domestication point. To proved this theory, they looked at the history of ancient dogs in Europe (Germany) and in Asia and discovered that these dogs may have been domesticated separately in each specific geographical area. …the […]

A little girl dressed in pink went for a walk down a dirt road with a sweet endangered southern white rhino named Ringo, who acts as an ambassador for the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. The conservancy seeks to educate the public about respecting and appreciating wildlife, starting with children. On Ol Pejeta, children get […]

Oh! Matsuri filmed a beautiful and intense look at one of Japan’s most dangerous festivals, the Onbashira Matsuri or “Sacred Pillars Festival” where young men prove their bravery by riding giant logs down steep hills through rough terrain. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

In the latest Simon’s Cat adventure, the beleaguered human Simon took a short break from mopping the floor and walked out of the room. The normally destructive Simon’s Cat remained behind and tried to clean up after a filthy kitten who tromped through the cat door and left a trail of mess behind. Rather than […]

Shinging360 is a 30 minute virtual reality experiment by digital artist Claire Hentschker created using Stanley Kubrick‘s The Shining. Hentschker used photogrammetry to build a three-dimensional world from the original film and followed the original camera movements through the finished creation. via Nerdcore

French filmmaker Candice Drouet (a.k.a. “Really Dim“) has created a fantastic compilation video of every Stanley Kubrick movie reference that has been featured on The Simpsons. Drouet goes into fine detail by showing off clips from The Simpsons and following them up with the actual movie scene it is referencing.

A photo posted by The cinnamon snail (@cinnamonsnail) on May 27, 2016 at 9:21am PDT During the last week of May, the Cinnamon Snail Bakery in New York City offered an incredible, limited-time, vegan maple raspberry “Inception Donut“, which consisted of a larger donut topped with smaller donuts that were then topped with even smaller […]

In his continuing series of experiments, “Crazy Russian Hacker” Taras Kulakov created a small plasma ball using a portable Tesla coil and a lightbulb, but not before shocking himself several times in the process. Kulakov also recently experimented with lightbulbs by dipping a bulb’s exposed filament into a jar of liquid nitrogen.

A ravenous little otter wasted no time enjoying the yummy snack that had been provided, repeatedly consuming multiple pieces of cereal as quickly and as noisily as possible. via Incredible Things

A video posted by ??????? (@shiba_charmy) on May 22, 2016 at 4:54am PDT Charmy is a sweet faced and beloved Shiba Inu whose face absolutely melts into the picture of complete serenity whenever she gets a good head, ear and/or chin scratch from her human. Sometime she even puts on a great big smile. A […]

Barcelona illustrator and architect Federico Babina has created Archiwriter, a series of illustrations that imagine the literature of 27 famous authors as architectural structures. Prints are available to purchase from Society6. We’ve previously written about his architectural works of art. images via Federico Babina

In a talk from the TED2016 conference, photographer Stephen Wilkes explains how he uses thousands of photographs taken of a location over many hours to capture the passing of time in a single image for his Day to Night series. Photographer Stephen Wilkes crafts stunning compositions of landscapes as they transition from day to night, […]

In May 2016, we wrote about the wonderful ad-hoc debut piano dance performed remarkably detailed warrior finger puppet designed by talented puppeteer Barnaby Dixon. Since that time, Dixon has been refining the puppet’s dancing skills, as demonstrated in a new video featuring musicians Emma Holbrook and Paul Bradley. @EmmaHolCreative and @polobrollochain joined me and the […]

The FoldiMate Family is a handy home robot appliance that folds, steams, and even perfumes laundry in a matter of seconds. Users simply clip their laundry on the machine’s conveyor belt, which feeds into the folding chamber where a variety of garment types can be folded by robotic arms. The company will begin preorders in 2017, […]

Disney recently recapped the story of Finding Nemo using only adorable emoji to help prepare everyone for their animated sequel Finding Dory, which is set to swim into theaters on June 12th, 2016.

In episode ten of his series for IMDb, host Brandon Hardesty of No Small Parts takes a look at the career of Irish actor Liam Cunningham, the actor who is best known for his role as Davos Seaworth in Game of Thrones. Brandon looks at Liam’s past as an electrician in Zimbabwe, one of his […]

In memory of his beloved friend Muhammed Ali, who sadly passed away last week, actor Sylvester Stallone shared a fond memory of the two men during the 1977 Oscar Awards. While Stallone was presenting the “Best Supporting Actress” award , Ali came up behind him and jokingly told Stallone that he stole his script. Stallone […]

A photo posted by Nintendo Life (@nintendolife) on May 31, 2016 at 3:13am PDT Nintendo Life shared an image of a custom Super Mario Bros. themed plumbing job that handy gamer Troy Goho installed under his kitchen sink. It features Bowser and Mario figures standing on drain pipes that have been painted green to resemble […]

Igor Vichikov of Inspire To Make recently demonstrated how to make an electric skateboard with a powerful drill, a right angle drill attachment, a brass wire wheel brush, and more. Have no money for the Boosted board? Here is a DIY solution =) Cheap and easy to make electric skateboard. A photo posted by Inspire […]

HBO Spots honors the life of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, in a tribute video narrated by Liev Schreiber.

A photo posted by @hypchk on May 29, 2016 at 11:56am PDT The Houston, Texas suburb Sugarland is at an unexpected center of controversy due to a bronze statue that depicts two long-haired girls, one with smartphone in hand, very distinctively posing for a selfie. By erecting this and another statue of a guitar player, […]

Firebox is featuring a scaly wax egg candle that melts away to reveal a porcelain baby dragon inside. Each egg contains a cute dragon with a random color. Thought to be extinct for aeons, these mysterious creatures are finally making a triumphant return. This Hatching Dragon Candle was painstakingly retrieved from the Shadow Lands beyond […]

John Oliver forgave nearly $15 million in medical debt during a Last Week Tonight segment about debt buying. With a steep discount, Oliver purchased a total of $14,922, 261.76 in debt for less than $60,000 to show how little regulation there is in the debt buying industry. Besides forgiving the debt because it was, “obviously […]

Adamlytics recently put on his inflatable Tyrannosaurus rex costume and chased a SUV, which was painted like a tour vehicle from Jurassic Park.

An absolutely magnificent Siberian Husky named Maya has an adorable habit of blowing bubbles through her nose whenever she takes a drink from her water dish, whether alongside her canine sibling or by herself. While her human Kent Duryee finds this behavior charming, but cautions the playful dog to be careful and not inhale. Don’t […]

Paul Marcarelli, the famous face of the long-running “Can you hear me now?” ad campaign for Verizon, has switched to Sprint in a new series of commercials. The spots focus on Marcarelli’s previous work for Sprint’s rival company and the claim that their network is now within 1% as reliable as Verizon’s.

Cracked imagines what it would be like if cell phone commercials were honest in their latest Honest Ads video. Enough with the maps! We don’t even understand their meanings anyway.

Laughing Squid partner David Klass visited the Cincinnati Zoo yesterday and while there he shot photo of the Harambe memorial visitors have created around the gorilla statue outside of the Gorilla World exhibit. Harambe, a 17 year-old male silverback gorilla, was tragically shot and killed by zoo officials on May 28th after a three year-old […]

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A photo posted by Mya The Pomsky (@myathepomsky) on May 6, 2015 at 5:16pm PDT Mya the Pomsky is a an absolutely gorgeous dog who’s half Husky and half Pomeranian heritage gives her the look of a vixen with stunning blue eyes and a foxy red coat. Mya enjoys a traveling around with her dedicated […]

A photo posted by Major Bigtime (@majorbigtime) on May 12, 2016 at 5:34pm PDT New York City street artist Major Bigtime has created a traveling installation that replaces the featureless heads on the ubiquitous “Courtesy Counts” subway posters with that of the presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump’s distinctive open-mouthed visage. The effect is hilariously creepy, […]

While working in his Kapfenberg, Austria backyard, Adolf Krainz discovered firsthand the sheer impossibility of drinking a bottle a beer while operating a intensely vibrating dirt tamping machine. The beer splashed everywhere before Krainz completely gave up, tossing the offending bottle aside and proclaiming that it was not a laughing matter. Jo Jo des is […]

News Be Funny has created a compilation of some of the best news bloopers from May 2016.

Steve Carell got drunk with Stephen Colbert in a 2001 clip from The Daily Show about drinking responsibly. via reddit

Physics Girl host Dianna Cowern demonstrated how to curve a ball backwards using science in a recent video about the Magnus effect. Cowern used a soccer ball and a smooth ball of similar size to show how the effect can make a ball kicked the same way curve in different directions. The difference comes down to […]

Adult Swim released a fantastic animated parody of the How It’s Made television series that shows how the Plumbus, a pinkish device from Rick and Morty, is built from start to finish. The use of the peculiar device is still unknown. For homemade plumbuses, always push your dinglebop through a grumbo so your fleeb doesn’t […]

Great Big Story has shared the tale of astronaut John Young, the man who snuck a corned beef sandwich into space during the Gemini 3 mission in 1965. NASA astronauts deal with many dangers in space: deadly debris, harmful cosmic rays and corned beef sandwiches. Wait, what was that last one? Oh yeah, here’s how a […]

A photo posted by nychos (@nychos) on May 5, 2016 at 4:51pm PDT IKON is the upcoming solo art show by Austrian urban art and graffiti illustrator Nychos of Rabbit Eye Movement at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York City featuring some of his new signature dissections of pop culture characters like Darth Vader, […]

“Internet: Then Vs. Now” is a clever comic by artist Andy Kluthe and Tristan Cooper of Dorkly that compares how the world of the internet worked back in the 1990s compared to now. image via Dorkly

AsapSCIENCE explained the ways smartphones change the bodies and brains of users in their latest video. The video’s companion piece on the AsapTHOUGHT channel suggests six reasons that one could benefit from taking a break from smartphone use.

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George Gaspar of Toy Break set a RecordSetter world record on February 4, 2009 by fitting 2,222 toothpicks in his beard.

Vox looks back at the history of GIFs from the early days of the internet to present day with a focus on how companies like Giphy have tried to profit from them. The GIF was invented in 1989. And since its beginning, the GIF has been used to make money. At first, GIFs were sold as […]

Kuma Films recently captured footage of diabolo wizard ChihHan Chao, the Red Bull PAO 2015 champion, performing all sorts of incredible Chinese yo-yo tricks. A video posted by Kuma Films (@kumafilms) on Jun 1, 2016 at 3:56pm PDT music by SevnthWonder – “1995“

In the BowserVids sketch “New Accounts,” a beleaguered man played by Andrew Bowser must deal with his two coworkers (also played by Bowser) to start a new account.

“Youtuber Simulator” is a video created by Jason Gastrow (a.k.a. “VideoGameDunkey“) where he plays a real life PC video game, titled Youtubers Life, and humorously outlines his “actual YouTube career.” Jason’s spoof features plenty of clickbait titles, copyright infringements, advertisement proposals, and more.

Tripp Crosby and Tyler Stanton of Tripp and Tyler share a few helpful tips for how to make work funner. The tips include fun office games and pranks to play on coworkers, but Crosby and Stanton can’t quite agree on what a “sniff tally” is.

In a 360° video for The New York Times Magazine, photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin climbed the spire of One World Trade Center to photograph a breathtaking view 1,776 feet above New York City. Chin’s photographs appeared in The New York Times Magazine’s recent “New York Issue.”