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The new trailer for the third season of the deliciously eerie Showtime series Penny Dreadful offers a new threat, a new love interest, a death and a darkness that threatens to fall upon the world and commence the end of days. The new season premieres Sunday, May 1st at 10:00 PM. Master your demons. The […]

Quartz recently interviewed Lauri Vuohensilta, the mad genius behind the popular Hydraulic Press Channel on YouTube. We have posted some of the channel’s best crushes in the few months since it launched back in October 2015. In the short time, the channel has already grown to become the eighth most popular YouTube channel in Finland.

The insightful native advertising software agency Sharethrough recently launched Hemingway, an online editor that analyzes headlines, scores them using a proprietary linguistic algorithm and offers suggestions about what to do in order to make it have more impact with the audience. The Headline Quality Score is based on a multivariate linguistic algorithm built on the […]

How It Should Have Ended has released an alternate version of how Star Wars: The Force Awakens should have ended. Here’s the original version. The Alternate Ending to How The Force Awakens Should Have Ended. This scene was originally written to be part of our Main Force Awakens HISHE, but it was cut because the […]

Twisted Doodles takes a look at the difference between a dog’s wallet and a cat’s wallet. via Neatorama

An adorable little long-tailed macaque named Fyodor, wrapped up tight against the snow in a child’s snowsuit, scarf, hat and mittens, excitedly hopped out into the snow ahead of his human so that he could check on his goat and chicken friends out in the barn. It appears that Fyodor really cares about all creatures, […]

image via David Zambito Builder David Zambito has created a life-size LEGO version of the vinyl cover for Led Zeppelin‘s untitled fourth studio album, often referred to as Led Zeppelin IV. Here’s the original cover for comparison. image via Amazon via The Brothers Brick

“Spintop Snipers” is a video by Kuma Films featuring a group of talented Taiwanese spinning top masters performing all sorts of amazing trick shots using their spintops. music by LVTHER – “Some Kind Of Magic (feat. MYZICA)“

Pee & See is a pee logging app that reminds users to drink water to stay hydrated. Each time a user goes to the bathroom they tap the “Log Pee” button in the app, and if they go more than three hours without peeing the app will alert them. Users can also track their progress on […]

The ever-busy Food Surgeon very carefully and precisely extracted the gooey liquid from the center of an entire box of Fruit Gushers, a fruity children’s snack and inserted it all into a pocket that was skillfully formed using a box of sticky Fruit Roll-Ups, another fruity snack. The result was very kid-friendly, to say the […]

Cartoonist and animator Johnny McHone has created Toys vs Toys, an incredible stop motion animated short film where the forces of evil battle evil to protect the future from being annihilated. Johnny’s short film, which is composed of over 160 clips that he made for Vine, features all sorts of iconic characters from video games, […]

The music video for “RUN and RUN” by the Japanese group Lyrical School was produced specifically for viewing on a smartphone, and gives the illusion that the group has taken control of the viewer’s phone. via Andy Baio

“The Old New World” by Alexey Zakharov is an absolutely stunning animation that uses historic photos of major U.S. cities to travel back to the turn of the 20th century via an elaborate steampunk time machine. It’s a travel back in time with a little steampunk time machine. The main part of this video was […]

OppoSuits has released a fancy Pac-Man suit with matching tie featuring a classic stage layout from the 1980 arcade game. The suit is available to purchase from the OppoSuits website and Amazon. The little yellow man with the big mouth finally has his own suit. And what a suit it is. Take a bow for […]

The country of Sweden has launched +46 771 793 336, an official telephone number that connects callers to a random Swede for a chat. The number is live now and anyone in the world can call to say, “Hej!” Since launching on April 6, 2016 the number has already received more than 15,000 calls from […]

The Warp Zone is back at it again with a new amusing animated short that imagines what it might be like if popular Star Wars characters had Facebook profiles.

New York City musician Anthony Vincent of Ten Second Songs recently joined forces with his vocal coach Ken Tamplin and Gabriela Gunčíková to sing 65 rocking songs in five minutes and take us on a journey through rock and roll history.

Apple has released behind-the-scenes clips of Cookie Monster on the set of his recent iPhone 6s commercial with Siri.

Richard Wiseman of Quirkology recently placed three segmented images on a brick wall and a couple of beams that come together to form an outlined cube. After lining up the images on his camera, he made the cube spin around without the use of video editing or CGI. The projected cube was one of many […]

Czech graphic artist Adam Pizurny has created a disconcerting series of GIFs that depict a human head undergoing some all sorts of digital manipulation and deconstruction in such ways as dissolving, deflating, duplicating, expanding and even sprouting a bit. According to Pizurny, his inspiration came from a childhood love of art and a need to […]

DC All Access has released a cosplay music video that highlights some of the best DC Comics themed costumes at WonderCon 2016 in the Los Angeles Convention Center. The only word that could describe the great cosplay we saw this year at WonderCon is, well, wonderful! We were so impressed that we thought we’d revisit […]

Striking a pose. How do I look? #cat #cats #cutecats #cute #fluffy #fluffycats #pets #catsofinstagram #catsoninstagram #cats_of_instagram #catstwenty2 #yourpetslist #catsgram #photooftheday #ilovecats #catlovers #petsgram #catphotos #rescuecats #petsagram #blindcats #persiancats #persian #moetblindcat #instagramcats #catsofig A photo posted by Moet the Blind Cat (@moetblindcat) on Jan 26, 2016 at 9:29am PST Moet is a beautiful longhaired champagne-colored […]

Two women in Los Olivos, California have created Charmed Books, a wonderful line of vintage-style charms that are made to look like miniature versions of classic novels and books. The charms also contain quotes from the book on the inside, which can also be customized for individual events We are now launching our new, first […]

The Backyard Scientist and Mark Rober recently teamed up to test the strength of oobleck (a combination of corn starch and water) and give viewers tips on surviving a grenade blast. The pair put oobleck through some extreme tests by attacking it with a chainsaw, bb gun, and a propane-powered golf ball canon to see […]

The Hero by HERO Health LLC in Brooklyn, New York, is a wonderfully convenient, compact machine that safely stores, dispenses and dispenses pill medications for one or several different people using password protection. The Hero also connects to wifi, is smartphone enabled and can send reminders or reports through text messages. Why should taking your […]

How It Should Have Ended has teamed up with Screen Junkies to make After Credits, a new animated series where they imagine what would happen if popular films were given after credits scenes. In episode four, they take visualize what an after credit in the film Interstellar would look like.

Hipster Sound is an online soundtrack that plays ambient coffee shop noises to help anyone used to working in a coffee shop stay focused and help productivity. Users can select from “Busy Cafe,” “Cafés de Paris,” or “Quiet Resto” to hear familiar chatter, sipping, and clinking of mugs. image via Hipster Sound via Product Hunt, […]

Designer Eyal Rosenthal has created a minimalistic, sophisticated series of light fixtures that are each inspired by a different characters from Star Wars films. The entire collection of Star Wars light fixtures are available to view on Eyal’s portfolio website. With a minimalist style, designed to look like something you’d put at home, while delicately […]

“I Can’t Give Everything Away” is the latest single from Blackstar, the powerfully poignant final album of the late, great and sorely missed David Bowie. While accompanying video does not have any visual images of Bowie, the overall theme, animation and design coupled with his distinctive voice impeccably captures his spirit.

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter has opened at Universal Studios Hollywood. The grand opening ceremony featured the Hogwarts School Choir, John Williams and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and a gorgeous light and fireworks show against the attraction.

Italian biology student and blogger Mattia Menchetti captured remarkable photos of the natural phenomenon of polistes dominula (paper wasps) building a beautiful nest from the colorful construction paper that was provided to them. (translated) Returning to native species, we come to the real purpose of this article: to show how, with a little ‘color and […]

Ricky Gervais is reprising his role as David Brent from The Office in the new feature film David Brent: Life on the Road. In the film, Brent is a traveling salesman and self-funds a tour across the UK with his band Foregone Conclusion. The film will be released on August 19, 2016.

Comedian Scott Rogowsky drew stares and attention while reading books with fake titles and covers on the subway in New York City. Rogowsky’s library included titles like Gone Girl 2: Even Goner, Getting Away With Murder for Dummies, and This Book Has a Camera in It and Google Is Taking Your Photo With It. Subways are a great place […]

As the newest member of the Tested team, Swedish engineer Simone Giertz once again put her amazing skill and her great sense of humor to use with the Popcorn Machine Helmet. Unlike her other robots, however, this one was planned via Skype with Adam Savage of Mythbusters. This very special One Day Build is an […]

image via Amazon Pottermore has shared a sneak peek at the new edition of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets novel that will feature wonderful full-color illustrations by Jim Kay. The beautiful book, which is currently available to pre-order on the Bloomsbury website and Amazon, will release on October 4th, 2016. image […]

Musician and composer Andy Rehfeldt, whose work we’ve previously posted, has created a wonderfully disturbing video remix of “Escape” (The Piña Colada Song) in which the distinctive vocal stylings of death metal singer Bördi replaced those of soft rock songwriter Rupert Holmes. The original version of the song. via b3ta, The Awesomer

Mr Kernish recently took a trip into a random stranger’s back yard, who he appropriately gave the name Kuat for security reasons, to take a tour (inside and out) of an incredible life-size AT-ST Walker that the awesome Star Wars fan built “mostly made from timber, plastic, and bits of scrap metal.” Mr Kernish’s entire […]

Josh and Mike Greenfield of the Brothers Green cooking and music show created a new series where they show how to make Taco Bell‘s entire classic menu from home. A video posted by @brothersgreen on Mar 23, 2016 at 10:48am PDT A photo posted by @brothersgreen on Mar 25, 2016 at 6:48am PDT via Digg

Mike Rugnetta share 38 fun facts about the internet on episode 414 of “The List Show” on Mental Floss.

A playful cat hunts a speedy foe! When the very mischievous Simon’s Cat saw that his human was running a remote control toy car around a track, he jumped right in and began the inevitable chase. Both human and feline were having a bit of fun with each other until the car flew off the […]

The Japanese metal idol band, BABYMETAL, made their U.S. television debut by performing their song “Gimme Chocolate!!” on a recent episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The track is featured on their second studio album, METAL RESISTANCE, which is currently available to purchase on their U.S. store and Amazon.

Mode Video paid tribute to the 100 years of hats for both men and women in a fashionable two-and-a-half-minute time-lapse. Each look highlighted the fabulous millinery, which was recreated in accordance with each era, decade by decade. Travel through 100 years of fashionable hats, for both him and her. Watch as we show off some […]

Marvel released a new TV spot for Captain America: Civil War, the next film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe directed by Anthony and Joe Russo. The TV spot takes a look at how everything that happened in the past lead up to this heated, divided battle among friends. Captain America: Civil War is currently scheduled […]

Disney and Lucasfilm have released the first official trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, an upcoming live-action Star Wars stand-alone film and first in the new Star Wars Anthology Series. Rogue One, which is being directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla), will tell the story of the brave band of rebels who worked together […]

Mike Rugnetta explores the history of pizza in 8 delicious slices on the latest episode of PBS Idea Channel. Pizza might be an Italian invention, but it is a worldwide phenomenon. Pizza has managed to evolve from a simple, rustic food item to something much more impactful. For many it is a comfort food, something […]

1 of 30. "The Nanny" starring Paul the Pigeon Man. #anicoflico #30in30 #hellerfilms A video posted by HELLER films (@hellerfilms) on Mar 10, 2016 at 7:50am PST Nicolas Heller, the filmmaker behind the “No Your City” series, recently completed his latest project “30 little city films in 30 days“, a glorious compilation of black-and-white iPhone […]

“Evolution of Dance” by comedian Judson Laipply, one of the first big viral videos on YouTube, was uploaded 10 years ago today on April 6, 2006. Since then it’s been viewed over 295 millions times.

A photo posted by Innis & Gunn (@innisandgunnuk) on Mar 30, 2016 at 12:00pm PDT In celebration of their new location in Dundee, Scottish craft brewery Innis & Gunn UK has created the very curious Marm & Ale, a smooth preserve that is infused with their signature “oak barrel aged” ale and in turn, they’ve […]

Alex Kersten from Car Throttle tested the Autopilot feature of the Tesla Model S at 70 MPH on the M4 motorway in the United Kingdom. Kersten let the car take control of steering, braking, and acceleration as he sat back and reviewed the experience. via reddit

A photo posted by Preemadonna (@preemadonna) on Mar 21, 2016 at 8:41am PDT Engineers Pree Walia and Casey Schulz of Preemadonna have created The Nailbot, a smartphone enabled robot that prints custom decorative decals and designs directly onto fingernails. Preemadonna is currently accepting Nailbot waitlist orders, but are offering VIP access through an ambassador program, […]