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Patrick Thrillems produced a super cute video of kids cosplaying at San Diego Comic-Con 2015, as interviewed by cosplay correspondent Kendra Pettis. via Tastefully Offensive

Crazy DIY created a clever compact disk powered launcher for paper airplanes, as demonstrated in this sound effects enhanced video. via reddit

10 Cats presents their ten cats licking and playing with a giant ball of ice. Previously: The Oddly Soothing Sound of 9 Cats and A Kitten Eating Dinner Together At The Same Time

Hawaiian professional surfer Jamie O’Brien surfed a giant wave at Teahupo’o in Tahiti while lit on fire! RedBull.com: Jamie! You’re still standing. How did everything go in the water today? Jamie O’Brien: I caught the best wave of my life today. It was a dream wave, and I was on fire. It was the biggest […]

AsapSCIENCE takes a look at some of the science associated with dogs.

Philadephia-based film review site CutPrintFilm assembled a mesmerizing montage of tracking shots from Stanley Kubrick films in honor of his birthday, which is today (July 26th). A montage of tracking shots (or in some cases, shots meant to emulate tracking shots) from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and Eyes […]

Jeremy Husted has a Canary security camera setup in his kitchen that recently caught one of his cats sneaking around the top of the cabinets then suddenly jumping down to the center island right into the chicken he was about to put into the oven. Husted was then faced with the decision to go ahead […]

Six little pug puppies blissfully sleep on their backs in a row in this adorable video uploaded by ignoramusky.

Firebox is selling a cute battery-powered, glowing red Balloon Dog Light that they refer to as a “dashing tribute to balloon benders across the globe”. photos via Firebox via Firebox

Los Angeles based comedian and voice actor Brock Baker delivers spot-on impressions of 24 different characters from Pixar movies.

Episode 11 of You Suck at Cooking explores some of the heinous “Nacho Crimes” people commit.

deisel1984 uploaded an insane video of a Sabula, Iowa police officer requesting Iowa Department of Transportation to help with a swarm of millions of mayflies (shadflies) that had taken over the Sabula-Savanna Bridge that crosses the Mississippi River. The DOT had to use a snowplow to clear the bridge. Sabula Iowa Police department was called […]

Will Smith of Tested takes a behind-the-scenes look at how BattleBots competitor Will Bales and his HyperShock team built their HyperShock robot. What does it take to build a BattleBot, and what technology makes a good combat robot? We chat with BattleBots competitor Will Bales about his matches and examine the parts of his HyperShock […]

Barely Productions is back with their 2015 installment of “YouTube Complaints”, where YouTube users show up at the YouTube headquarters and register their biggest complaints about the service. Check out the previous YouTube Complaints videos from 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Slow Mo Lab shows what it is like to have giant water balloon explode on a person’s face in super slow-motion shot at 10,000 fps.

In celebration of their fortieth wedding anniversary, redditor magic976‘s parents recreated two wonderful photos from their wedding four decades ago, down to the very last detail. My parents celebrate their 40th Anniversary today. Some things never change. …Yes, it’s the same wedding dress and jacket my mom made for my dad. photos via magic976 via […]

Artist Zane Uzklinge of Pomegranate Wolf has created “Grumpy Catipus” a fabulous knit figure that combines the adorable surliness of Grumpy Cat with the multiple limbs of an octopus. One day on some fun page I found a photoshopped image where there was a Cat with Octopus tentacles. I found that so funny and in […]

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine is a documentary about the late Apple founder by filmmaker Alex Gibney, the director of the Scientology documentary Going Clear. The trailer focuses on the difference between how Jobs was perceived in private and public lives. It will be released in theaters and online on September 4, 2015. […]

One & Two is a science fiction thriller about two children with supernatural abilities who are kept isolated from the world by their father. The film stars Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men) and Timothée Chalamet (Homeland), and will be released in theaters on online on August 14, 2015 through IFC Films. Imprisoned by their own father […]

An elderly chihuahua who became blind from cataracts tests out his brand new “Bumper Buddy” – a homemade safety harness that that his wonderful human created that allows him to bump into things without harming himself and figure out his placement as he moves about the house. Our dog Buddy has become blind because of […]

Steve Onotera, aka samuraiguitarist, recorded a wonderful cover of the Super Mario Bros. 3 soundtrack, creating all the sounds effects with a guitar. The song is available for download on Loudr.

image via xkcd xkcd author Randall Munroe has updated his comic “Exoplanet Names” about suggested names for exoplanets to include some of the newly discovered exoplanets like Earth’s “older cousin,” Kepler 452-b, which Munroe would like to rename “Pluto.” The updated strip adds dozens of suggestions for names of exoplanets around more than a dozen […]

A creative team at the Warsaw production house Ars Thanea created “The Ash“, a gorgeous photo tribute to the determination of dreams as represented by a smoldering bouquet of roses, covered in ash and lit by a burning fire below. We all dream sometimes, about something we want to have or do. Luckily, if we […]

Digg has created a cacophonous video featuring all of the music videos nominated for the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards played at the same time. I would suggest setting this on repeat until the awards ceremony on August 30.

The Fine Brothers give a group of kids the first generation iPod from 2001 to see how they react to it.

Columbus, Ohio-based Thomas Richner, an associate professor of animation at the Columbus College of Art and Design, has built a highly detailed five-foot long model of the Millennium Falcon out of nothing but cardboard in 140 hours. Richner’s full collection of process and final photos of the legendary starship model are available to view on […]

FOX has released a short promo for the X-Files revival where Fox Mulder asks Dana Scully “Are you ready for this Scully?”. I know that we are ready for it. The series premiers on January 24, 2016.

Diplomacy is so overrated. “The House of Picards” uses very clever editing by doubleg1701 to portray the normally genial Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation appear to be as ruthless, scheming and duplicitous as House of Cards anti-hero Frank Underwood. via A.V. Club Thanks Brad!

Blind film critic Tommy Edison, who has been blind since birth, is back with a second video where he tries to sculpt things using Play-Doh. Here’s his first Play-Doh sculpting video from last year.

Espadaysantacruz Studio, a hybrid creative studio located in Madrid, created a fascinating stop-motion video of a motorcycle engine being sanded down one inch at a time, layer by layer, to promote Cubitron II industrial abrasives by 3M. via Sploid

(interactive version) Writers Richard Kreitner and Steven Melendez of Atlas Obscura have compiled an amazingly detailed interactive map. The pair used Google Maps to painstakingly plot the different routes of twelve epic road trips taken by adventurous characters in American literature. The above map is the result of a painstaking and admittedly quixotic effort to […]

The QuickLock is a padlock that unlocks using Bluetooth and NFC technology rather than a traditional key or combination. The lock can be paired with a Bluetooth-enabled smartphone, or users can unlock the device with the included NFC key fob or RF/NFC cards. For a limited time, the QuickLock padlock is available in our Laughing […]

unReal is a feature-length mountain bike film, created by Teton Gravity Research and Anthill Films, filled with mesmerizing footage of bikers cruising down glaciers and other beautiful landscapes. They released an amazing segment from the film, shot in a single take, that has professional mountain biker Brandon Semenuk bombing down the side of a grassy […]

A tiny little owl named Trude bobs around in a warm bath in Kimura Hidetoshi‘s bathroom sink, pretending to be just like the rubber ducky that Ernie from Sesame Street sang about in 1978. It appears that Trude loves to get in a good bath whenever he can. via reddit, Daily Picks and Flicks

Inspired by a chase scene in George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, Michael Mirasol of Movie Mezzanine created “The Chase”, an action-packed supercut tribute to car chase scenes in movies. This video was borne out of a single shot in George Miller’s action epic Mad Max: Fury Road, when the biker gang chases Furiosa’s war […]

Magicians Richard Young and Sam Strange of the comedy magic duo Young & Strange appear to have performed an impressive illusion behind a live Sky News broadcast. In the illusion, Young is seemingly crushed inside a box only to emerge fully sized and unharmed. The duo recently took the illusion to a number of television networks […]

Smarty Pins is a new trivia game built on Google Maps where players answer location-based questions by dropping pins on a map. Players begin with a bank of 1,000 “miles” and try to see how many questions they can answer before they run out. Miles are deducted from the player’s bank for the distance from […]

FOX’s Animation Domination High-Def has created a new animated music video where they add amusing lyrics to The Legend of Zelda video game theme song. It’s all about the side quests, finding rupees, and roughing up the crazy cuccos (chickens). What is the Legend of Zelda? It’s the legend of a little moron, who can’t […]

To keep with his tradition of walking the San Diego Comic-Con floors in costume, Mythbusters host and Tested scientist Adam Savage recently went incognito to this year’s event dressed up as an intimidating version of Judge Dredd from the 2012 Dredd film. His helmet, tactical vest, Lawgiver pistol, and all the other pieces of the […]

In a recent video, Taras Kulakov the Crazy Russian Hacker demonstrates how coins react to being inserted into a block of dry ice. Kulakov is delighted by the way the coins shake, but does not offer an explanation. Instead, he asks viewer to explain it to him in the comments of the video. The cause of the motion […]

San Clemente, California-based artist Camden Remington of 6S Films recently took footage from Mad Max: Fury Road and set it to Eric Calderone‘s heavy metal cover of the 1963 song “Yakety Sax,” which is most commonly known as the theme song to The Benny Hill Show. Camden appropriately titled his adrenaline-fueled mashup “Yakety Max.” The […]

A Japanese high school baseball player shows off his skills, while in the batter’s box awaiting a pitch, by skillfully dancing around and swinging his bat around like a champ. After each pitch, he tries a new move to either prepare for his next chance at hitting the ball or to just confuse the pitcher. […]

The Skysphere is a futuristic-looking living space created by designer and engineer Jono Williams. Its circular design features 270 square feet in the living area which includes a bed, custom couches, and even a “couch integrated beer dispenser.” The Skysphere is powered entirely by solar panels, and the electronics are controlled using a version of the Android […]

Summer=crowds. Protect your stuff. We @ 24 r not the fashion police but fanny packs present a special case. pic.twitter.com/OuyuaTL33U — NYPD 24th Precinct (@NYPD24Pct) July 22, 2015 Here’s some helpful advice from the NYPD 24th Precinct on how to wear your fanny pack in the front so that you are at least protected while […]

Tambo is a Japanese art form where people create huge pictures by planting various rice types and colors in a paddy field. This year, a group of Japanese residents from the Inakadate Village in Aomori Prefecture worked together to create a beautiful Star Wars-themed rice paddy art display to celebrate the future release of The […]

For their latest experiment, Carsandwater dropped a red hot nickel ball into Crazy Aaron’s Magnetic Thinking Putty to see how it would react.

Android Police discovered a amusing easter egg in the latest version of Google Maps on Android when you repeatedly ask “Are we there yet?” while in navigation mode. via Android Police

Star Trek fan LordRicco666 has edited clips from Star Trek: The Original Series together to create a music video for William Shatner‘s cover version of the song “Common People” from his album Has Been. The video features several instances where lyrics in the song sync up with lines from the show, and often the visual elements pair […]

An Italian designer who goes by the name Inspirational Gecko has created an adorable line of corner bookmarks that were made to look like sections of oranges, lemons, watermelons, kiwis and even a slice of pizza. Each bookmark is made with only felt and thread. It is a very resistant bookmark, made of multiple layers […]

Sad news, Don Joyce of the experimental music group Negativland passed away on July 22nd in Oakland, CA of heart failure at age 71. Here’s the announcement from the Negativland website. For the last 34 years Joyce was the host of his weekly radio program “Over the Edge” on KPFA Berkeley, that he broadcast live […]