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An industrious raccoon named Gosha went to work washing some of his human’s favorite things in a little green tub filled with water. Unfortunately, this also included her smartphone and one of her favorite shoes, both of which she rescued in very short order. Needless to say, Gosha’s human was not very happy with him […]

Tice Ledbetter was flying his drone over a pier on Pacific Beach in San Diego which caught the eye of an annoyed fisherman below, who then cast his line at the drone, successfully hooking it. Ledbetter posted a follow-up video showing him removing the tangled fishing line from the drone’s propeller. via UPI

gameranx presents some interesting facts about the video game series Fallout that people may not know about. via GeekTyrant

In their latest video, the “family that vlogs” Sam and Nia, find out that they’re going to have a baby, but it was Sam who made the announcement to Nia and not the other way around. Earlier that morning Sam snuck a pregnancy test into the bathroom, tested it with urine in the toilet bowl […]

NUKEMAP is a tool created by Alex Wellerstein built on Google Maps that shows users the damage a nuclear detonation would cause anywhere in the world. Users can pick from a list of major cities and historic detonation sites, or search Google Maps to see results for a specific location. The tool also lets users […]

In May, a tiny long-haired tabby polydactyl kitten named Winnie danced around on a bed at her foster home through Shelter Cats and Kittens, bopping her head to the beat of “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars. Watch this cat as she gets more and more into the beat! Winnie was 1 of […]

After bumping into an unassuming lizard, a tiny kitten desperately tried to get away. Unfortunately, the frantic feline wasn’t able to get solid footing onto the shiny wood floors and just slid and flipped around the room. A couple of years after this adorable incident, Blackhawk added a few effects to the scene, making it […]

@Seinfeld2000, an absurd Twitter account that asks the question, “What if Seinfeld were still on the air?”, interviewed actor Wayne Knight who played the character “Newman” on Seinfeld for a profile in Vice. The interview goes over Knight’s work on Seinfeld, the 2014 Twitter hoax that pronounced him dead, and even his work as a private […]

In episode nine of the asdfmovie cartoon series by digital media producer Thomas “TomSka” Ridgewell and animator Ben “Wonchop” Smallman, they run through a funny collection of animated clips that feature a strange talking dog, a hungry little girl, spontaneous explosions, and more. We’ve previously written about TomSka’s clever ongoing cartoon series that is based […]

American Hacker has new design that lets you turn a smartphone or tablet into a 3D hologram projector using the Palm Top Theater app and three CD jewel cases (their previous design used only one CD case).

Daniel Barassi of Brat Productions has mashed together the audio from “Easy” by The Commodores with “Just Like Heaven” by The Cure – two very different songs from two very different music genres – that come together seamlessly, as if they were made for one another. The song is also available to download in MP3 […]

“Feet Up” is the first single off astronaut Chris Hadfield‘s album Space Sessions: Songs From a Tin Can which he recorded during his time in space on board the International Space Station for Expeditions 34 and 35 from November 2012 to May 2013. The album is available now for preorder through Hadfield’s website with merchandise […]

Richard Stevens of Diesel Sweeties has created “O.G.: Original Girls,” a Golden Girls tribute t-shirt design that lists the first names of the four main ladies from NBC‘s classic sitcom. His shirt design is based off of the popular Beatles-themed “John & Paul & Ringo & George” name shirt created by Experimental Jetset in 2001. […]

photo via Anita-Alistair Campbell Alistair Campbell from Taupo, New Zealand recently got a large tattoo on his head to match his six-year-old daughter Charlotte’s cochlear implant so that the young lady wouldn’t feel different. Charlotte’s mother Anita-Alistair Campbell, who also wears a cochlear implant, shared a photo on her Facebook page of father and daughter […]

Vox expertly explains the concept of Pareidolia, a fairly common phenomenon of consistently finding familiar images (faces, animals, letters) within inanimate objects and random patterns, particularly when none actually exist. When we look at something like concrete floor, our brains pick up the stuff that makes sense like a letter of the alphabet or two […]

HBO has released the first teaser for Vinyl, an upcoming series that focuses on the New York City music scene in the 1970s as viewed by a single character played by Bobby Cannavale, who narrates the action through flashbacks. The series was developed by Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger. HBO alumni Terence Winter (The Sopranos,Boardwalk […]

3D streetpainting artist Leon Keer has created a brilliant 3D pavement drawing of sad gummy bears, displayed at the Malta Street Art Festival 2015, who are mourning the death of their sweet green friend. Keer also captured photos of people that made it look like they were actually interacting and joining in with his chalk […]

A photograph by Ama la Vida TV captures a pair of Dryas iulia butterflies drinking the tears of turtles in Ecuador. The behavior is known as lachryphagy (tear drinking), and is done as a way to gain nutrients and moisture. The photograph won the 2014 Wikimedia Picture of the Year competition. photo via Wikimedia via Twisted Sifter

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 […]