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Rather than fleeing back into the cold New Jersey winter air, a pregnant feral tabby cat allowed a generous woman named Katie Lanza to welcome her into a warm, inviting and loving home so that she could bear her kittens in a safe environment. The formerly feral cat was given the name Lipstick and gave […]

Didja, the incredibly talented skateboarding cat beat the heat of the Australian summer by taking a ride around the pool on the back of a very genial and obliging Weimaraner named Ice, who appeared oblivious to all the goings on. It’s a hot day in the land Down Under but Didga and Ice know how […]

In the latest episode of the wonderfully animated lost interview series “Blank on Blank“, the iconic primatologist, anthropologist and author Jane Goodall spoke about her incredible work with the Kasakela chimpanzees at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, how she got started in the field, her belief in the unlikely and the humility required in […]

The Blockhead by Ten One Design is a clever side-facing plug adapter for Apple laptop chargers. The adapter allows the charger to be plugged in from the side, giving users more options about where to plug in their MacBook or iPad. photos via Ten One Design via MacRumors

In the latest experiment by Tito4re, they poured molten copper on a McDonald’s Big Mac.

PostCups are an adorable collection of postcards, created by designers Ink Julep and Jenn Perng, that are only completed when you stain them with a coffee ring. The packs of seven different postcards (Bicycle, Boy and Balloon, Cat, Ferris Wheel, Panda, Planet, Snowman) are available to purchase on Etsy. Can’t go without coffee? We’ve bean […]

The cast of Community (particularly Danny Pudi and Alison Brie) goofs off in the gag reel from the show’s sixth and final season. The reel is one of the special features on the season six DVD release.

Dave Hax recently created a new video tutorial on how to soften a hard stick of butter in minutes. He did so by filling a drinking glass with hot water and letting it sit for a bit. Dave then dried the glass and placed it over a stick of butter for a few minutes. Voilà!

The MPC creative studio has shared a visual effect breakdown of their work on Terminator Genisys. They go into detail about how they digitally created a young Arnold Schwarzenegger, the endoskeletons, the massive battle at LAX airport, and more. music by Phil Rey – “A Planet To Conquer“

I've given this place 4 stars. It's the all day breakfast that lets it down really. Apart from that the staff are… Posted by Christian Willoughby on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 Christian Willoughby of Grimsby, England was being detained at the Grimsby Police Station over what he called a misdemeanor. While there he managed to capture […]

chihuahua or muffin ? pic.twitter.com/LzZ1lwoVrP — karen zack (@teenybiscuit) March 10, 2016 Freelance commercial and film producer Karen Zack has created a wonderfully funny Twitter photo series that compares dogs and other small animals with their edible counterparts. Tiny chihuahua faces that match exactly with the speckled tops of berry muffins, curled up sleeping dogs […]

Madrid, Spain-based film editor Jorge Luengo Ruiz has created “Hands of Nolan,” a fantastic look at films by Christopher Nolan through the hands of his characters. Jorge features scenes from Following, Memento, Batman Begins, and more. music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – “Piano Concerto No.23 In A Major, K 488 Adagio” via DesignTAXI

Astronomer Mike Kentrianakis was on board Alaska Airlines flight #870 from Anchorage to Honolulu when it rerouted to give its passengers a unique view of the March 8, 2016 solar eclipse from 35,000 feet.

Jenny Morgan Volume 39 of Hi-Fructose: The New Contemporary Art Magazine has been announced and will feature stunning artwork made by contemporary artists from around the globe. New York painter Jenny Morgan will be featured on the cover of the upcoming issue. Volume 39 of the quarterly art publication is currently available to pre-order from […]

On a recent episode of One Day Builds by Tested, host Adam Savage created Hellboy‘s massive demon-slaying sword from the Hellboy comics. It comes complete with a charred demon skewered at the tip.

Oliver Taylor has created an amusing comedy sketch where he and a group of Star Wars and Joker fans surround Mark Hamill to ask for autographs. To avoid all of the chaos, Hamill performs Jedi mind tricks on the group and persuades them to go bother Harrison Ford instead. via GeekTyrant

Screen Rant takes a look of ten actors who died during the production of a film.

While appearing on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, actor, comedian and musician Michael McKean discussed how scenes from the (now) classic rock parody film This Is Spinal Tap essentially predicted the future for other bands in real life. Well in some cases it was about them, it just hadn’t happened yet. Part of the […]

Director Alex Winter (who played Bill in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure) is currently raising funds through Kickstarter in order to preserve the very precious memory of the incredible Frank Zappa. If enough money is raised, Winter plans to make a definitive documentary about Zappa’s life, share the unreleased materials Zappa kept inside his famous […]

Walton Goggins, the brilliant actor who’s played such characters as the ill-fated Shane Vandrell on the sublime series The Shield, the menacing bible-thumper Boyd Crowder on Justified and the wild Billy Crash in Django Unchained, spoke with Conan about the role he played on Sons of Anarchy, a sultry transgender woman named Venus Van Dam. […]

The first official trailer for the new Lonely Island movie Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping features the behind-the-scenes life of singer and rapper Conner4Real (Andy Samberg) and his entourage. The film was written by Samberg and his Lonely Island partners Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. Schaffer and Taccone directed the film and Judd Apatow produced. Universal Pictures’ Popstar: […]

While solemnly reporting on a tornado that hit in the East Texas town of Malakoff, KYTX reporter Andrea Martinez was completely caught off guard by the sight of an intense yellow lab perched on top of a riding lawn mower with his paws on the wheel looking like he was ready to go to work. […]

AsapSCIENCE gives a scientific answer to the question “Can You Actually Eat a Bus?” The video focuses on how human digestion works and the unique diet of Michel “Mr. Eat Eveything” Lotito, a French performer who ate unusual things including bicycles, chandeliers, and even an airplane.

Kubo (Art Parkinson) joins forces with Monkey (Charlize Theron) and Beetle (Matthew McConaughey) to save his family in the latest trailer for the Laika stop motion feature Kubo and the Two Strings. The film is about a boy who uses his magical instrument to tell stories, but learns his powers can do so much more. Kubo […]

The mysterious Food Surgeon once again donned a pair of latex gloves and went back into the operating theater in order skillfully harvest the tiny legumes from the pod of a sugar snap pea. The patient was a bit resistant at first, but eventually gave up the goods. Surgeon’s notes: 1:24 – C’mon pea! Let […]

In 2015, the Wall Street Journal posted a wonderfully heartwarming video about a retired bricklayer named Joao Pereira de Souza who lives off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the unusual friend who visits him every year from colder Patagonian climes. The visitor is a fiercely loyal Magellanic penguin named Jinjin whom de […]

Professor Paolo Pedercini asked his students at the Carnegie Melon University School of Art animation program to rotoscope footage of a galloping horse taken from an Eadward Muybridge plate from the 1870s. The class then created a series of unique interpretations of the horse’s motions. I Told My Students To Rotoscope The Muybridge Horse… You Won’t […]

Kuma Films captured footage of the professional Taiwan-based KARAT Fingerboarding team performing awesome tricks on top of a rotating table in a fancy restaurant. A video posted by Kuma Films (@kumafilms) on Mar 9, 2016 at 12:49am PST music by AudioTreats – “Solitaire“

CinemaSins presents everything wrong with Watchmen, the 2009 film directed by Zack Snyder based on the DC Comics limited series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. With a new Snyder superhero film coming up, we take a look at one of his earlier superhero films: Watchmen. For the hell of it, we went with the […]

Craig Benzine aka Wheezy Waiter of the Mental Floss series “Big Questions“ very quickly and concisely explained the genetic and biological reasons explaining why some people have curly hair and while others have straight hair in answer to a viewer’s question. What makes hair appear a certain way? When they’re actually affected at the follicle […]

A photo posted by Kerby Rosanes (@kerbyrosanes) on Mar 8, 2016 at 2:42am PST Philippines-based illustrator Kerby Rosanes used his black pens to create Geometric Beasts, a series of intricate drawings that beautifully fuse together animals and geometric shapes. Kerby’s entire collection of illustrations are available to view on Instagram, Facebook, and DeviantArt. “Each piece […]

Marvel released a new trailer for Captain America: Civil War, the next film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe directed by Anthony and Joe Russo. The action-packed trailer gives us a glimpse of the tension and conflict escalating between members of the Avengers. Captain America: Civil War is currently scheduled to hit theaters on May 6th, […]

xkcd creator Randall Munroe rearranged the shapes of the 48 contiguous states to create a new map of the United States of America. image via xkcd

Mark Rober created a scale model of the solar system using a soccer ball on a football field as the Sun to show the scale of the solar system and to help give an idea of the true distance of the recently proposed ninth planet. Rober placed planets on the field at their relative distances from […]

The latest animated video from The School of Life gently postulates that the technology of the future will be able to read moods, detect emotional states and help humans communicate the nebulous world of feelings through the ever-advancing strides being made in artificial intelligence. One such emotional technology tool could be the yet-to-be-invented Socrates Mood […]

Sacha Baron Cohen appeared on The Howard Stern Show to promote his new movie The Brothers Grimsby. During the full interview Cohen told host Howard Stern how he managed to sneak his Ali G character into the 2016 Academy Awards against the organizers’ wishes. Cohen also explained how his Freddie Mercury biopic project fell apart over a […]

Orkestra Obsolete – Blue Monday In honor of the 33rd anniversary of the release of the New Order song “Blue Monday“, the talented Orkestra Obsolete played an old-timey version of the song for BBC Arts as if it were released 50 years earlier using only instruments available in 1933. Among the instruments played in the […]

The Royal Tenenbaums Manchester, England artist Jordan Bolton has created a wonderful series of movie posters that feature stunning flat lay photos of original objects he recreated from each film. Prints of his posters are available to purchase on Etsy. Amélie Breakfast at Tiffany’s images via Jordan Bolton via archatlas, The Khooll, DesignTAXI

St. Cloud, Minnesota-based gamer Comrade, also known as Merfish, has created a new video where the intro for the Pokémon cartoon series is recreated in Grand Theft Auto V. We previously wrote about Comrade’s GTA V remake of the intro to Full House and Arthur. Merfish also shared side-by-side footage with the original intro for […]

In a new animated short by Dorkly, based on a funny comic created by Julia Lepetit and Andrew Bridgman in 2013, that imagines what it’s like for fans and non-fans to see Marvel movies. image via Dorkly

Dos Equis is retiring The Most Interesting Man in the World, an advertising campaign for the famed beer brand, by sending the bearded gentleman to Mars. They have plans to bring in a new face to play the part of The Most Interesting Man in the World in 2016. Andrew Katz, the vice president of […]

Bill Gates recently gave a reddit AMA, and for his identity verification he recreated a photo of himself from his 1973 high school year book. The new photo matches the original in surprising details, including Gates’ clothes, his pose, and objects in the room itself. I’m hard at work on my latest @reddit_AMA. Join me […]

RealmPictures, the group who created live action first-person zombie and alien shooters controlled by Chatroulette users, is back with a real life version of the video game Hitman. They gathered up a few groups of YouTubers and had them control an actual Agent 47 as he infiltrated a mansion and took down the enemies.

On a recent episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden, Reggie Watts brought the cute Star Wars droid BB-8 on stage and serenaded his little friend with a song.

In 2014, Vietnam 1Cycle posted a wonderful video of a talented woman performing a lively tune on the lithophone, an ancient Vietnamese percussion instrument made from stones. Lithophone is the Vietnam oldest percussion instrument’s and one of the most ancient musical instruments of mankind. This is made of stones with different sizes of long, short, […]

Improv actor Planet Antonio logged on to the video chat site Blab and posed as a time travel from 1943 connecting to the Internet on an early ENIAC computer. Antonio stayed in character for more than an hour, gathering information about the future and answering questions about the past. via reddit

Yesterday KTVU San Francisco Bay Area reporter Alex Savidge and his cameraman Chip Vaughan were almost hit hit by a car during a live TV report they were shooting. Vaughan saw the car coming a yelled at Savidge allowing him get out of the way just in time. Savidge followed up with an emotional live […]

Editor and director Joey Scoma of Rocket Jump Film School explains the basics of film cuts and transitions available to filmmakers, using scenes from a number of different movies to demonstrate his point. In this video essay, Joey lists and defines the different cuts and transitions available to you as an editor, with examples from […]

Last month Mike Doughty performed a really great solo version of the classic Soul Coughing song “Super Bon Bon” on The Howard Stern Show. Mike is currently on tour with Big Head Todd & The Monsters. When Howard loves a song, he loves it for life. Whether from his formative years (Neil Young’s “Old Man”) […]

Ben Ebbrell and Barry Taylor of SORTEDFood offered an amusing demonstration that showed how to build a burrito-sized sushi roll. They also generously provided a step-by-step pictorial recipe on their website. Sushi are gorgeous dainty morsels and burritos are crammed full of filling making them dense and heavy. Both fantastically satisfying in their own right… […]