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Sorta Outdoorsy is a wonderful email newsletter and resource that shares information about outdoor adventures, through videos, photos and first-hand experiences, with New Yorkers who want to “escape from New York”, but not go too far from it either. A newsletter for people who love the city and love to leave the city. Our mission […]

Pingpad is a new shared notes, messaging, and task management app that easily lets groups collaborate privately across multiple devices and increase “social productivity”. The app is available now in the Apple iTunes Store and Google Play Store, as well as online. images via Pingpad

In “Cars on the Lanes”, a beautiful follow-up video to his “Birds on the Wires“, videographer Jarbas Agnelli of São Paulo, Brazil assigned short musical phrases to looped patterns of automobiles as they drove down a New York highway, resulting in a neat electronic song containing different tracks of lead, bass, drums, synthesizer and claps. […]

In “How a Retractable Ballpoint Pen Works“, Engineer Guy Bill Hammack takes a detailed look inside a Parker Jotter retractable ballpoint pen to explain how the mechanism works and what gives the pen its satisfying click. The video is a step-by-step breakdown of a bit of engineering many people may take for granted.

Xbox has released “Descent Into Legend,” a new trailer for the upcoming Lara Croft video game Rise of the Tomb Raider, the follow-up to the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot. The trailer follows Lara as she attempts to survive in the wild and explore deadly, trap-filled tombs. Rise of the Tomb Raider is currently available to […]

To prepare players for the upcoming release of the video game Fallout 4 on November 10, 2105, Bethesda has released “Endurance”, the third video from their new 1950s style animated educational video series covering the seven S.P.E.C.I.A.L. attributes used in the game. Here are the previous videos on “Strength” and “Perception”. Following total atomic annihilation, […]

“Everlasting Lightning Storm” is the latest episode of the Atlas Obscura series 100 Wonders that explains the Catatumbo Lightning of Venezuela. The unique geography of the region around Lake Maracaibo creates conditions that produce 140 to 160 fierce lightning storms per year, each lasting up to 10 hours with as many as 3,600 lightning flashes per hour. […]

A new video from Red Bull features footage of world champion biker, Gee Atherton, flying over huge road gaps and tight wooded areas while speeding through an insane downhill mountain biking trail that is appropriately named the Red Bull Hardline.

A 4K time-lapse video by Toby Smith follows the container ship Gunhilde Maersk as it travels from Ho-Chi Minh City, Vietnam to Ningbo, China to pick up a load of shipping containers. The video was created from over 78,000 photos taken with a Canon 5D MkIII camera in a special marine housing. via Twisted Sifter

In a new video by Screen Rant, host Rob Flis highlights ten popular films that you may now have known were influenced by video games. He features Edge Of Tomorrow, Zombieland, Sucker Punch, and more. As video game releases continue to bring in millions, or billions of dollars for major publishers, movie studios are turning […]

The East Bay Mini Maker Faire is a one-day family-friendly event that’s a scaled-down version of the larger World Maker Faire, but holds the same values around celebrating inventiveness, creativity and learning. Only “Mini” in relationship to the “Monster” Maker Faire Bay Area, our Oakland show welcomes over 7,000 people to a one-day extravaganza of […]

In his song “Permanent Holiday“, the talented Hawaiian reggae musician Mike Love amazingly looped seemingly random sounds and syllables with pedals at his feet until they formed whole words by the end of the song. The effect is absolutely mesmerizing, particularly paired with the calming beat and Love’s beautiful voice. redditor CyBot was so intrigued […]

It appears that the creatures of New York are suddenly running off with human food. Yesterday, a subway rat dragged a piece of pizza down the stairs and now today an adorably bold and sneaky squirrel stole a milkshake from the Shake Shack garbage can in Madison Square Park. The little rodent paid no mind […]

The design firm &Orange has created “An Instant Guide to Making Coffee,” a clever and simple animated demonstration of different methods used to brew coffee. The video used the Stumptown Coffee Roasters Brew Guide for reference and inspiration for the methods shown. via Huh Magazine

During a Topvogel falconry show in the village of Diessen, Netherlands, falconer Sjors Van de Wiel demonstrated how a majestic Harris’ hawk with a large wingspan is able to tuck its wings in order to fly easily in small spaces, such as the two volunteers who were standing head-to-head, without ruffling a single feather. Topvogel […]

An impressive video captures the 2013 world record-setting stone thrown by Kurt Steiner at Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania. Steiner’s stone skipped 88 times before falling below the water’s surface. The video highlights each individual skip and points out previous records as Steiner’s stone skips past them. Stone skipping works by generating lift as it […]

Los Angeles-based filmmaker Pablo Fernández Eyre has created a beautiful new supercut video featuring scenes in movies where time is standing still. We’ve previously written about Pablo and his videos. The movies are: The Matrix, Clockstoppers, Buffalo 66, Cashback, Big Fish, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Lost in Space, Click, and The Wolverine.

“Louis CK on Cellphones” is a compilation by editor Luís Azevedo of The A to Z Review that combines a number of rants by comedian Louis C.K. on the topic of cellphones. C.K. has frequently commented on the role technology plays in society, and particularly how he feels cellphones are ruining it.

Legendary Pictures has released a TV spot for Crimson Peak, an upcoming supernatural mystery film directed by the great Guillermo del Toro. His haunting film stars Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska, and Charlie Hunnam. It is currently scheduled to hit theaters on October 16th, 2015. When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, […]

An inspiring video posted by Cherish Sherry features eloquent six-year-old Tiana giving her mother a meaningful lesson about staying friends with Tiana’s father now that they’re divorced. Tiana assures her mother that she only wants what’s best as she carefully lays out her vision for a world where everyone is friends. via Digg

Charlie Brown works up the nerve to talk to the new girl in the second trailer for The Peanuts Movie. The trailer also highlights the rest of the Peanuts gang. The Peanuts Movie will be released in theaters on November 2, 2015. image via The Peanuts Movie

In a funny video shot by Shoot To Kill NYC for GQ, actor and new dad Ryan Reynolds attempts to build an IKEA crib and ends up showing the crib exactly who is boss. Duct tape is a real life saver. Does the new dad have what it takes? What’s Swedish for “f*ck you”?

Young Marty can’t manage to blow out the candle on his second birthday cupcake. After several unsuccessful attempts and nearly lighting himself of fire, Marty gets some help from his dad to finally extinguish the flame. Marty had some similar problems blowing out the candle on his birthday cake at his party, but his dad […]

“Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?” is a reanimation of the tea party scene from the 1951 Disney classic Alice in Wonderland done in the style of 17 classic paintings. The video was created by Gene Kogan using software and a style transfer technique to change the look of the scene to match paintings such as Starry Night, […]

Beat Down Boogie has created a new music video featuring a number of the incredible cosplays at Dragon Con 2015, Atlanta’s “largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film.” Beat Down Boogie’s entire collection of photos from Dragon Con are available to view online. music […]

For the 2015 Comic-Con, the incredible Eclectic Method created “The Classic Doctors“, an amazing remix of scenes that took place during the tenure of the first eleven incarnations of Doctor Who. The BBCAmerica has since adopted part of the remix as a clever promotion for the current series of the show. BBC America have uploaded […]

In a simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking scene an adoring husband stood at his wife’s bed and lovingly sang to her the Rosemary Clooney song “You’ll Never Know“, a love song that they sang to one another throughout their 73-year marriage, while gently stroking her face. Erin Solari, the couple’s granddaughter, caught this beautiful act of […]

In “Golf Rules for the Rest of Us,” Tripp Crosby and Tyler Stanton of Tripp and Tyler introduce new golf rules for the average non-professional player. The new relaxed rules relieve some of the pressure golfers can put on themselves and make the game more casual and fun.

When redditor dath0916 was walking his dogs, he noticed that his new neighbors had constructed a very creative fence that allowed their huskies to peek outside while still remaining in the yard. Unfortunately, the adorable faces first startled dath0916, although his own dogs were less impressed. It scared me while I was walking. I had […]

Awesome father and redditor, Ghostfaceace, has created a Star Wars landspeeder bed for his Jedi son. According to Ghostfaceace, he will soon give his boy’s room a total space-themed overhaul. image via Ghostfaceace via reddit

Summer ’78 is a fun short film, directed by J.C. Reifenberg and produced by James Arnold Taylor, about an imaginative young boy during the 70s who is filming himself while playing with all sorts of Star Wars toys in the back yard. According to Mashable that “the boy at the center of this short film’s […]

An adorable grey baby donkey named Leo swung happily while curled up in his hefty black-and-white hammock while his humans offered him a bunch of belly rubs on a beautiful day in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil. According to his humans, Leo “loves his daily hammock time.” via Tastefully Offensive

Bugs Bunny sings “Many Men” by rapper 50 Cent in the latest mashup by Mylo the Cat. In the video, Bugs faces some of his fiercest rivals who are trying to take him out, echoing the themes of the song. Looking back on it, the vast majority of Bugs’s life is simply not being murdered. For […]

On a recent episode of The Tonight Show, host Jimmy Fallon paid humorous homage to the classic song/video “Hello” by recreating the “sculpture class scene” in which a large clay replica of Lionel Richie‘s head was heavily featured. In Fallon’s version, however Richie played the role of his own head and joined in on the […]

A hungry rat in New York City attempted to drag a yummy slice of pizza down the stairs and into the subway, giving new meaning to “a plain slice to go”. Unfortunately, the rodent dropped the slice about halfway down. Comedian Matt Little, who captured the footage, looked at the situation in a very different […]

Rescue Dogs Rock NYC partnered up with DigitasLBI to create a couple of humorous adoption ads that cleverly uses the scandalous Ashley Madison hack as the basic premise. Juxtaposing the loyalty of a dog with the unreliability of a human, the first ad focuses on a woman who was cheated upon while the second ad […]

Maymo the Lemon Beagle, cleverly disguised as a plush panda bear in a pile of stuffed animals, clumsily attempted to consume a wafer ice-cream cone through his costume. Though proving difficult at first, the silly dog finally figured it out. Watch Maymo impersonate a stuffed panda bear. Looking at the pile of stuffed animals, one […]

Luna is an artistic lamp design inspired by the Moon. The lamp is available in a range of seven sizes from the XXS 3.2 inch model to the XXL 23.6 version. The Taipei-based designers behind Luna are currently funding the project with an Indiegogo campaign that has already well exceeded its goal. images via Luna via […]

The latest episode of the “The Science of Us” by New York Magazine offers a very simple, straightforward way to find out if someone is a narcissist by just asking them. Scientists identify narcissists as people with three traits – an unrealistic sense of their own superiority, entitlement or belief that they deserve special treatment […]

Tel Aviv-based Studio Cheha, known for their unusual lighting designs are currently raising funds through Kickstarter in order to bring their new set of optical illusion LED lights designed as 3-dimensional tabletop and desk lamps to market. Meet ZIGGi, DESKi and CLASSi! The three newest members of our original lighting family. This series, designer Nir […]

Mike Trapp of CollegeHumor has put forth a challenge that you can’t watch this entire video without yawning. Did you make it?

A team at ETH Zürich has developed drones capable of autonomously assembling a rope bridge strong enough to support adult humans. The team was made up of researchers in multiple fields to control the drones flight, coordination, and the bridge materials themselves. via Robohub

Paris, France-based artist and filmmaker Yoann Hervo has created a bizarre VHS version of The Simpsons classic animated intro. Hervo made the intro with help from artist Hugo Moreno, sound designer Florian Calmer, and musician Valentin Ducloux. This opening is just a small part of a collaboration project made up by Charles Huettner, Ivan Dixon […]

A young boy has his tooth pulled by a drone being piloted by his uncle Paul Borrud in “The World’s First Ever Drone Tooth Pull.” Despite the video’s title, it appears that several other drone tooth pulls have been posted to YouTube before Borrud’s video which was shot on June 27, 2015. via Aparna Mukherjee

According to Exclaim!, Labatt has teamed up with Metallica to release a limited edition of Budweiser that will only be available in Quebec. Labatt will brew 91,000 black cans worth of sweet, sweet Metallica Budweiser, and those will hit the market on September 28. The brew is intended to coincide with the closure of Quebec […]

Toronto, Ontario-based mother, Lainie Elton, recently created a fantastic Hulk princess birthday cake for her twin daughters’ birthday. The cool little girls asked their mother for the unique cake and she delivered. image via NobodyLikesASmartAss via reddit

On a recent trip to Prague, Laughing Squid partner David Klass spotted this ad featuring a creepy baby Steve Jobs. photo by David Klass

Texas-based bootleg toy maker Falcontoys has created an awesome series of Star Wars-themed frosted Pop-Tarts that feature Han Solo frozen in carbonite. They are available to purchase online. This resin toaster pastry closely resembles a POPular breakfast treat but I assure it doesn’t taste like one. images via Falcontoys via Foodiggity

Tom Scott shows off his custom-built physical emoji keyboard. The unique and impressive build features more than 1,000 keys for typing all current emojis, from birds and flags of the world to black Santa, with the simple push of a button. Scott has promised a longer video to come that will detail his build process.

4chan founder Christopher Poole has sold the anonymous message board to Hiroyuki Nishimura, the founder of the pioneering anonymous online message board 2Channel, who Poole has called the “great-grandfather of 4chan.” Poole announced the sale in a post to 4chan. via The New York Times