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A thirsty elephant caught photographer Carina Blofield and other guests at the Elephant Sands Lodge Botswana by surprise when, out of nowhere, a giant trunk came over the wall to drink the (luckily) clean water from the toilet. According to Blofield, this was a lower ranking elephant who didn’t want to wait her turn on […]

“Mission: Implausible” is a Mission: Impossible parody, created by Sneaky Zebra and presented by Nerdist, about a team of clueless “B team” agents who go over the top as they tackle mundane assignments, like carefully acquiring a thermos of green tea for their boss. Hamilton, Gomez, Benny, and the over-the-top “Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) wannabe” […]

In this three-minute time-lapse video by Mode Glam, a naked well-muscled model named Matty Watts dons (and removes) 100 years of men’s swimwear decade by decade, commencing with the twirly moustache and striped romper swimsuit of 2015 and culminating with the scruffy beard and pastel shorts of 2015. Watts also added in a few humorously […]

An incredibly acrobatic Boston terrier named Rose kept an orange balloon aloft with her nose for over one and half minutes while doing backflips across the width of her yard at breakneck speed. Rose doesn’t need to be outside to do her backflips either. Here she is, playing with a ball indoors. via Tastefully Offensive

Jon Stewart hosted his final episode of The Daily Show on August 6, 2015 after more than 16 years on the show. During the special hour-long farewell episode, Stewart was joined by many of the past correspondents like Ed Helms, Steve Carell, Nancy Carell (formerly Walls), Kristen Schaal, and many more who all bid Stewart […]

Redditor dusanman1 recently shared a photo of a Dairy Queen that installed a special little door just for kids to go through and enter the Playland area. photo via dusanman1 via reddit

In a recent episode of The Atlantic series If Our Bodies Could Talk, host James Hamblin tests an exoskeleton designed to make the wearer feel as if they are 75 years old. The suit is the Genworth R70i, and besides adding weight, the suit also alters range of motion, limits vision and hearing, and simulates conditions like arthritis […]

RADiUS-TWC has released the first official trailer for Goodnight Mommy, an upcoming thriller film directed by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz. The creepy, nightmare-inducing trailer follows two nine-year-old twin brothers who are suspicious of their bandaged mother after she returns home from a cosmetic surgery operation. She just doesn’t seem to be herself… at all. […]

A pair of super-strong neodymium magnets are used to crush a series of objects like an iPhone, a juice box, and an apple in a video posted by magnet retailer First4magnets.com. The video shows the items being destroyed both at regular speed and in slow motion. via Sploid

The Pokémon Company will be hosting another giant Pikachu Outbreak! event in Yokohama, Japan this August where numerous people, dressed as the yellow video game character, will parade through the city streets. To get people prepared for this year, they shared an intense five-minute instructional video where a nimble young man gives viewers a lesson, […]

Fast Company has put together a really terrific supercut of 16 years worth of Jon Stewart’s best moments on The Daily Show, of which are sadly coming to an end this very eve. Jon Stewart began hosting The Daily Show in 1999, and there have been many hilarious, memorable moments in his time there. From […]

Ben Millam, a man who describes himself as an “aspiring geek” built an amazing feline feeding machine that requires his cat Monkey to hunt for RFID-tagged white plastic balls placed strategically around the house. Whenever Monkey finds a ball, he takes it over to the machine and inserts it into a blue bowl fitted on […]

St. Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow The photographers of AirPano, the wonderful Russian not-for-profit photo project, have captured stunning aerial stills of some of the biggest cities on earth including Paris, Amsterdam, Moscow, Prague Barcelona, Rome, Berlin and New York. In addition to these and other beautiful photos, AirPano offers their Travel Book 360° which is available […]

The ThyssenKrupp test tower in Rottweil, Germany is a 246 meter concrete tower built by the ThyssenKrupp elevator company to test their new Multi magnetic levitation elevator design. The tower features 12 elevator shafts, three of which are going to be used specifically for the Multi project which allows multiple cabins to occupy the same shaft. […]

Waterford, Michigan-based metal artist Todd Johnson (a.k.a. “Darth Alice“) of Darth Alice Sabers did an impressive job of upgrading and modifying a Redeemer LED Lightsaber from Saberforge in November 2014. In Todd’s video walkthrough, he shows off the numerous modifications added to the new version of his Saberforge lightsaber, such as a “precision fit Delrin […]

Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, stars and creators of the Comedy Central series Broad City, fight it out in an episode of the Spike series Lip Sync Battle. Glazer performs Outkast‘s “Hey Ya” and Jacobson performs “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” from Dreamgirls. Elliott Morgan and Greg Miller provide a behind-the-scenes look at the […]

A 6-month old yellow Lab puppy named Maddie attempted to fill up a blue plastic kiddie pool with the running water hose that was in her mouth, with only some degree of success. According to her human Charlie Osgard, Maddie was “trying to fill up her pool to cool off” on a hot summer’s day. […]

Banana Stand On April 20, 2011, art director and photographer Tatsuya Tanaka created the Miniature Calendar as a way to craft scenes for his diorama dolls. Since that time, the calendar has taken a life of its own and Tanaka has kept up, using common household items and food to create intricate, beautiful and humorous […]

“And So It Begins” is the latest in the long-running series of over-the-top Old Spice commercials. The spot sees the return of former Old Spice spokesman Isaiah Mustafa as he does battle with his replacement Terry Crews over which Old Spice scent is superior. Mustafa is fighting on behalf of the Timber scent, and Crews is […]

Nacogdoches, Texas-based Deric Peveto of Wood By Hand has created a beautiful Millennium Falcon snack tray out of exotic woods that’s just right for smuggling some chips, dip, and veggies. The made to order snack tray, fit for any sort of Star Wars party, is currently available to purchase online from Peveto’s Etsy store, WoodByHandLLC. […]

CLS Videos has compiled a four-part montage “Meet the Villain”, their sinister tribute to evil villains in movies. Here’s the full list of films in the order they appear in the video. Do we really appreciate our scoundrels more than our saints? In movies we most often do. This video weaves together years of memorable […]

Troy Redington of the shopping site FatWallet has shared an illustrated chart that compares the speeds of some of the fastest real NASA spacecrafts and fictional sci-fi spaceships in the universe. Redington’s full chart and detailed write-up are available to view on the FatWallet blog. From the Millennium Falcon to the USS Enterprise, science fiction […]

During a recent episode of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver shared a series of real British House of Lords members and their titles paired with photographs of animals who look like they would have those names. via Neatorama

Mary Norris, known as the “Comma Queen” at the New Yorker, premiered her video series in March 2015 and regularly posts helpful hints around the often-confounding subject of English grammar. For example, Norris explains the difference between a dash (em dash) and a hyphen and the hybrid of the two (en-dash) before concluding that em […]

Placement pranksters Obvious Plant recently left a hilarious fake ‘driver carries only’ sign in a Los Angeles taxi cab that included a list of absurd things that most would-be robbers would not be interested in. photo via Obvious Plant

In the sixth video of his San Diego Studies series, filmmaker Cy Kuckenbaken cleverly edited 20 minutes of kite flying footage into a a single shot, making it appear as if a flock of red kites were swooping over his head. The footage was taken at Tijuana Slough on a cloudy June day. This was […]

Two peppers in a bowl do impressions for each other on episode 13 of You Suck at Cooking.

Tesla Motors released an impressive demo video showing how their tentacle-like “Snakebot” charger prototype can find it’s way to the charge port on a Model S sedan to start charging the electric car. Tesla Snakebot autocharger prototype. Does seem kinda wrong :) https://t.co/vXpCrKNdlV — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 6, 2015

Billboard announced yesterday that the remaining members of the legendary band The Grateful Dead will be performing with musician John Mayer. The band, called Dead & Company, will kick off the tour with a Halloween show at Madison Square Garden in New York City. …three of the Dead’s “core four” players — guitarist Bob Weir […]

Hetfield is an ongoing series of parody comic strips, created by cartoonist Jimmy Two Hands, that mashup memorable characters from the Garfield comics with heavy metal members of Metallica. The comics follow a goatee-sporting cat named Hetfield, who sort of resembles the real James Hetfield. Hetfield’s owner is named Lars and, thanks to the unique […]

In a recent video by Kurzgesagt, they explain what science knows, and more importantly doesn’t know, about dark matter and dark energy. The current understanding of these two elements of the Universe is extremely limited, but the episode focuses on how the scientific community came to its current understanding.

An orphaned kangaroo joey named Doodlebug who had been released into the wild, returned to his former home at WIRES Wildlife Rescue Center in South Australia in order to give a big hug to a plush teddy bear. The picture was taken by Gillian Abbot, a wildlife caretaker at the center and tweeted out by […]

The Unicorn Head Squirrel Feeder by Archie McPhee is a great hanging feeder that transforms hungry woodland creatures into a legendary animal. Archie McPhee‘s overhead feeder is designed to “uplift” the squirrels, instead of humiliating them like their previous feeders. It is available to purchase online. With our other feeders we humiliated squirrels, but the […]

As Dale Houghton Jr. found out during a recent stay, the Aloft Hotel in Cupertino, California has a robot butler that delivers room service orders to guests. The robot is a SaviOne created by Savioke, which was deployed to the hotel as part of a pilot program to test the robot. The SaviOne travels at a walking […]

Before Chris Farley passed away in 1997, he was the original actor cast as the fictional green ogre in DreamWorks Studios‘ 2001 animated film Shrek. In the previously unreleased video, shared by film producer John Garbett, you can hear Farley and other voice actors reciting their lines. According to Lost Media Wiki, the cast of […]

We’re not sure why, but we’ll miss you. Arby’s has bid goodbye to the outgoing host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, with a meaty rendition of “Thank You for Being a Friend,” the theme from the classic sitcom The Golden Girls. The fast food chain was a frequent punchline for Stewart during his more than 15-year […]

photo via The Muppets After recently announcing their breakup, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy have each joined the swipe-based dating site Tinder. Each of their profiles include their interests and an unflattering comment about the other. The couple’s split is a plot point of the new series The Muppets premiering on ABC on September 22, […]

Internet puppets Fafa the Groundhog and Mario talk about Hollywood’s upcoming Ghostbusters reboots films and share ten more alternate reboot ideas of their own in a recent episode of Glove and Boots.

Oltedal, Norway-based musician Leo Moracchioli of Frog Leap Studios recently performed an awesome heavy metal cover of the original Ghostbusters theme song, which was recorded by Ray Parker, Jr. in 1984. The Ghosbusters cover is currently available to purchase online from Amazon, Loudr, and Google Play. Fans of Leo‘s work can support the future release […]

“London Minute” is a time-lapse video by British photographer Paul Richardson for Marriott International that captured some of the city’s most iconic features and sights in just a shade over one minute. Richardson had made a similar film about Paris in 2014. Zoom from the London Eye to Big Ben, coast over the River Thames […]

A graceful Denso VS-050-S2 robot performs a rhythmic gymnastics routine using a blue ribbon. The robotic arm performs a number of different maneuvers, and the video ends by showing the maneuvers next to a visualization of how they appear to the computer. The Denso VS-050-S2 robot was designed to have applications in the pharmaceutical and […]

Filmmakers Claire&Max, whose work we’ve previously posted, wanted to look at their city a little differently. After a bit of thought they decided to set the viewpoint of their camera at different angles to make the hills of Paris appear to flatten out. In line with our experimental films, here “Paris – Viewpoint angle” or […]

Chris Poole, the loving and dedicated human to Cole and Marmalade, demonstrates how to make yummy frozen treats for kitties who get very warm in the summer heat. The treats taste good and provide the extra water our furry friends need during these hot months. Summer’s here! … We all know cats love to be […]

In “Turnsmile“, stock footage company Dissolve has created a toothy compilation featuring people who repeatedly break the fourth wall by turning and smiling at an invisible audience. They turn … they see you … and they smile. Even through a screen, these gestures make us feel acknowledged, special, likable — and more open to the […]

An inventive father wanted to give his daughter a memory, rather than a toy, for her fifth birthday. While she was napping on the special day, he assembled a 50-meter crazy straw, a section of which spelled out “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” in straws, and gave her one end of it when she woke up. It took […]

In the new trailer for the second season of the HBO series The Leftovers, a beleaguered Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux) and the rest of his family set their sights for Miracle, Texas, a place that touts itself as having zero departures. But as the narrator says, “there are no miracles in Miracle.” More than three […]

The PowerUp 3.0 smartphone-controlled paper airplane by PowerUp Toys is a small device that turns a regular paper airplane into a powered, remote-controlled flyer. The device pairs with a smartphone app that lets the user easily control their plane within a 180-foot range. The durable materials and construction of the PowerUp 3.0 are designed to be […]

“Chop, Where Are You!” is a fun video by BTZ where he recreates the opening credits to Hanna-Barbera‘s classic Saturday morning cartoon series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, in Grand Theft Auto V. I loved this show and I haven’t seen anybody doing a remake. I did what had to be done. Here is a side-by-side […]

“Gotta hide your stash or a bag of cash. Who you gonna call? Saul Goodman!” Austin, Texas-based musician Jeff Dutton (a.k.a. “Bonecage“) has created a musical 1980s parody of AMC’s Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul television series that is set to a Saul Goodman-themed remix of the original Ghostbusters theme song. We previously wrote […]

Cultivated Wit has begun an online campaign to build a 300-mile wall around San Francisco and the Bay Area during the week of Burning Man so that festival attendees can’t get back into the city. The ambitious project is seeking $7,300,000,000 to build the wall from Point Reyes or Santa Cruz through the crowdfunding site MegaGoGo, which […]