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7 Ways to Chop an Onion You Suck At Cooking is a wonderfully acerbic video series that offers humorous advice on such culinary tasks as chopping onions, making tuna salad and mixing up a quick bean dip. The series premiered in early January 2015 with a recipe for an easy guacamole, “4 ingredients plus salt […]

LADYBABY is a Japanese entertainment group that features two teen girls (17-year-old Rie Kaneko and 14-year-old Rei Kuromiya) and Ladybeard, a relatively famous cross-dressing bearded man. The group has released a series of videos, and have a CD available to pre-order on Amazon Japan. image via LADYBABY via Dorkly

Eddie Codel, a long-time friend of Laughing Squid, has just announced The Flying Robot International Film Festival, an open competitive film festival showcasing films made using drones. They will be opening for submissions soon, so sign up via their website, follow on Twitter and join their Facebook group. The Flying Robot International Film Festival is […]

Professional movie trailer editor indrancole3 takes us down memory lane with a nostalgic supercut of 1990s Disney films. via reddit

Luís Azevedo of The A to Z Review has created a fantastic video essay and detailed write-up that explores the many father figures present in films by director Wes Anderson. We previously wrote about Azevedo’s video essay that looks at the books in Wes Anderson movies. Throughout Wes Anderson’s filmography there’s a constant search for […]

RealBigBoys reminds us of the unforgettable scene from the 1994 film Forrest Gump where he beatboxes with his dying mother. via reddit

Happy, an excited and appropriately named Jack Russell terrier with generalized ataxia, a neurological disorder that causes mobility issues, recently went for a swim at a nearby lake with her brand new life vest. At all times, Happy remained under the watchful eye of her human from Animal Hope, a Fort Worth, Texas rescue organization […]

Animator Filipe Costa of PipocaVFX and artist Matheus Muniz teamed up to create “All Pixels Must Die”, an animated pixel art compilation video of some of the most shocking death scenes in HBO‘s television series Game of Thrones. The 8-bit music and sounds for their video were created by Paulo Bohrer II. via The Roosevelts

Inventor Izzy Swan of Think Woodworks has created a whimsical drill-powered walking machine. In a video posted to his YouTube page, he explains the build process and demonstrates how it works as he rides it around his neighborhood. The machine was inspired by the mechanism of the walking sculpture Strandbeest by artist Theo Jansen. Swan has created a […]

Facebook is updating their controls for News Feed, the personalized stream of posts you see when you’re on Facebook. You now have the ability to select which friends and pages you see first. To help prioritize stories, and make sure you don’t miss posts from particular friends and Pages, you can now select which friends […]

“Driving at Night” is a supercut by Jack Mugglestone that seamlessly combines scenes from the excellent films Drive and Nightcrawler, both of which rely heavily on driving through the streets of Los Angeles as a major plot theme. via Indiewire, GeekTyrant

Mashd N Kutcher had fun trolling the entire crowd at a club with surprise bass drop. via reddit

“One-Minute Time Machine” is a charming short film about love and time travel written by Sean Crouch and directed by Devon Avery. The movie stars Brian Dietzen and Erinn Hayes as two people meeting for the first time. Dietzen uses his one-minute time machine to give himself multiple chances at winning over Hayes, but he learns time […]

Disney recently released an official Star Wars app for iOS and Android devices that allows fans to view the latest Star Wars news, play sounds from the movies and television shows, take selfies with Yoda and Boba Fett, check the weather, plus much more. The interactive app is currently available to download from the iTunes […]

Jewelbots are a line of Arduino friendship bracelets created to get girls excited about learning to code. The bracelets feature some out-of-the-box functionality like alerting the wearer to nearby friends and the ability to send secret messages. Users can also take advantage of the open source nature of the Jewelbots line and the Arduino IDE to […]

San Diego-based R/C builder Otto Dieffenbach of Flyguy Promotions recently built a high-flying custom remote-controlled quadcopter that looks like R2-D2, the iconic astromech droid from the Star Wars films. Dieffenbach will be showing off his collection of custom remote-controlled creations, which includes his impressive R/C Snoopy flying on a doghouse, at the 2015 San Diego […]

Conan O’Brien (The Doof Warrior) and Andy Richter (Immortan Joe) take a Mad Max-themed drive down the “Fury Road” to Comic-Con in San Diego where they are taping Conan this week.

Psyched Substance presents “everything you need to know about” the psychedelic drug LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide) in a three-minute video.

A message from the Supply Lord of The Afterscape. Stephen Colbert broadcasts a message from his bunker after surviving today’s tech-apocalypse. Bunker Selfie! http://t.co/x4pUoP7BBO #LSSC pic.twitter.com/vFXbnF7az3 — Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) July 9, 2015

In early June 2015, the Japan-based couple Rachel and Jun visited Kitsune Mura Fox Village in Miyagi, Japan and captured absolutely wonderful footage of the over 200 resident vulpine creatures, who were surprisingly human-friendly and incredibly adorable. Rachel certainly had a good time. A real place where you can legit play with 200+ foxes!! I […]

“Here to There” by The Atlantic, a lovely animated history of transportation from 8000 BC to 2015. Ever since the first hominids left Africa, human beings have been on the move. The canoe was invented in 8,000 B.C. and the first form of public transportation was a stagecoach operated in Paris in 1662. Fast forward […]

CollegeHumor created this helpful video that updates popular teen slang to be relevant for adults.

On July 18, the Bay Area Infrastructure Observatory (BAIO) is organizing Gruen Day 2015 at the Bay Fair Shopping Mall in San Leandro, California to celebrate the birthday of Austrian-born Victor Gruen (1903 -1980), the father of the modern climate-controlled enclosed shopping mall. On July 18, the Bay Area Infrastructure Observatory (BAIO) invites you to […]

PBS Space Time host Gabe Perez-Giz explores whether a circle can be a straight line in a recent episode. The answer is rather complicated, and is the first part of Perez-Giz’s three-part explanation of general relativity. General Relativity! Spacetime! And… Curved Lines? On this week’s episode of Spacetime, Gabe talks about what it actually means […]

image via Jakub Geltner on Facebook Czech artist Jakub Geltner keeps his eyes on the street with “Nests”, a series that features groups of surveillance cameras installed into urban and outdoor spaces in such a way that they blend into naturally into their environment. The project is Geltner’s way of denouncing the constant scrutiny under […]

Engineer Guy Bill Hammack provides a detailed breakdown of the mechanics of a film projector. Hammack covers how a projector syncs audio and video, how the shutter create the illusion of smooth motion, and more. Bill tears apart a film projector to reveal the amazing mechanisms used in the pre-digital age to trick the mind […]

BuzzFeed has posted 10 paintings that depict celebrity chef Guy Fieri as a series of Renaissance babies. The exact reason why BuzzFeed or anyone else would do this is unclear. images via BuzzFeed via BuzzFeed

HypeLead has uploaded a video that poses the question “What is zero divided by zero?” to the electronic assistant Siri found on Apple products with somewhat unexpected results. via Viral Viral Videos

ThinkGeek has released an officially licensed USB car charger that looks like KITT‘s voice box from the classic Knight Rider television series. The light bars on their KITT USB charger sync to audio, which also plays back noises and 11 different phrases from the TV show. It is available to purchase online. We previously wrote […]

The Mino Shoe Life Tracker is a device that fits into a runner’s shoe and alerts them when it’s time to get a new pair. The device slips in under the sock-liner and easily shows the life left in the shoe with a series of indicator lights. The goal of the device is to prevent […]

Lisa Murphy, founder of Sosu Sauces in Oakland, CA, shows how to make a spicy fermented Sriracha sauce at home in a recent video by Munchies.

Luis Azevedo of The A to Z Review has created Bibliophilia, a wonderful video-essay that takes looks at the books in Wes Anderson films. Azevedo also published a detailed write-up to go along with the video-essay. In the work of Wes Anderson, books and art in general have a strong connection with memory. The Royal […]

To celebrate the upcoming return of The X-Files with a limited event series, Fox is scheduled to air every episode of the show’s first nine seasons one per day in order for 201 Days of The X-Files beginning on July 7, 2015 with the show’s pilot episode, and ending on January 1, 2016 with the series finale. The […]

Developer Roelof Pieters fantastically processed a short scene from the 1998 film adaptation of the Hunter S. Thompson novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas through Google’s artificial neural network. Pieters applied a similar process that Google recently used to create a gallery of “inceptionist” images by having the artificial brain process and try to interpret the scene. The […]

io9 has released a new video that goes over every Terminator machine model featured in the films, the television series, and numerous video games. Editing and voice-over was done by Chris Person with animation by Emily Edwards. WARNING: Some spoilers for Terminator Genisys that appeared in the second trailer for the movie are in this […]

Paul Feig, the director of Sony‘s upcoming Ghostbusters reboot film, recently shared photos of the new Ecto-1 vehicle and proton pack that will be worn by the team of awesome female ghost exterminators (Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones). The new film is currently scheduled to release in theaters on July 22, […]

A cat innocently eating its food is suddenly surprised by a cucumber that is sneaking up from behind. via Nothing To Do With Arbroath, Tastefully Offensive

After being inspired by a viral video from April, Instructables member UpgradeTech created a record out of a laser-etched tortilla that plays “Jarabe Tapatío”–perhaps better known as “The Mexican Hat Dance”–as it spins. The full details behind making the record are available at Instructables, and UpgradeTech has gone on to make a series of playable […]

British Pathé has uploaded a glamorous marionette fashion show from 1960 that took place at The Cypress Club in London.

MI6 superspy James Bond could be making his way to Broadway in James Bond: The Musical, which is expected to premiere in late 2017 or early 2018. The project is being produced by Merry Saltzman, the daughter of Bond film producer Harry Saltzman, who says her company Placeholder Productions has obtained the rights to the franchise for a […]

YouTube user daveachuk took over 400,000 high-resolution images captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope and combined them into an impressive simulation of the Milky Way Galaxy from the telescope’s point of view. They explained in detail how the simulation–which took five months to create–came together over on reddit. There were two techniques — one was […]

A talented engineer and bicycle fabricator in Portland, Oregon has created a giant rideable Tyrannosaurus rex-shaped dinosaur bike, which he has named Sue. The wonderful 8.5-foot tall and 12-foot long bike is currently available to purchase from the creator’s listing on Portland’s Craiglist. Specs: – Head is a marionette that turns side to side and […]

Pat Stay and Rone square off in an epic rap battle where they exchange compliments with each other in this 2014 video by King Of The Dot Entertainment shot at last year’s Hopscotch Celebration in Halifax, Nova Scotia. via reddit

A new commercial for Pampers by advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi London captures the “pooface” of infants in detailed slow motion. The action is set to “Sunrise” from Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss. via Fast Company

IJ Review has created a two minute video showing the evolution of United States Army uniforms over the last 240 years, from the Revolutionary War to modern day.

In the second episode of the new series Secret History of Television, Vulture looks at television “bottle episodes,” which are episodes that make use of limited sets and cast to bring a show in under budget. The term originated with Star Trek, when cast and crew began referring to episodes set mainly on the Enterprise as “ship-in-a-bottle episodes.” […]

Eleven year-old Alexis Davidson of Aurora, Colorado used a slingbow to extract a tooth that was ready to come out in a slow-motion video shot by her father Jason Mcdonald. via The Daily What, Neatorama

AMC has released a new featurette that gives fans a behind-the-scenes look at the Los Angeles set of Fear the Walking Dead, an upcoming six-episode companion series to The Walking Dead. Fear the Walking Dead is scheduled to premiere in August 2015, with a second season airing in 2016. What did the world look like […]

Voice actor Harry Shearer, who provides the voices of Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, and Reverend Lovejoy among others, will be returning to The Simpsons after all. It was announced in May 2015 that Shearer would be leaving the show over a dispute with show producers over what he called, “the freedom to do other work.” Showrunner Al Jean said […]

USAopoly has teamed up with Hasbro and HBO to create Risk: Game of Thrones, a special edition of the classic Risk board game based on the HBO’s popular television series Game of Thrones. The board game is available to pre-order online from Entertainment Earth and Amazon and is scheduled to release in August 2015. ‘RISK: […]