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Nordnet Bank Commercial Offers a Comically Transparent Look at Bank Commercials to Promote Their Transparent Banking
Nordnet, a bank based in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, has created a commercial that offers a comically transparent look at bank…
‘MinuteEarth’ Explains How Rivers Develop Curves
MinuteEarth (previously) has a new video explaining how rivers develop curves. Given a long enough time, even the smallest of factors can have a major…
An Undead Set of Four Zombie Christmas Ornaments
ThinkGeek has created an undead set of four zombie Christmas ornaments (Santa, snowman, reindeer, and an elf) that are dying to be hung from a…
A Supercut of Babies Stumbling and Spilling Like Tiny Drunk Adults
BuzzFeedVideo teamed up with America’s Funniest Home Videos to create a supercut of babies–taken from videos submitted to the show–proving they are just tiny drunk adults.…
‘A Whole New World’, A Supercut of Computer Hacking Scenes From 1990s Films
FoundItemClothing has created a followup to its 1980s hacker movie supercut, delving into the 1990s with “A Whole New World,” which features entertainingly dated hacking…
‘Tie Fighters’, An Action-Packed Short Where Jimmy Kimmel & Freddie Wong Fight Over Their Neckties in a Restroom
The skilled team at RocketJump has created “Tie Fighters“, an action-packed short where late night host Jimmy Kimmel and filmmaker Freddie Wong fight over their…
Contributor by Google, A New Service That Removes Ads From Popular Websites for a Monthly Fee
Contributor is a new “experimental” service by Google that removes advertisements from popular sites when users pay a set monthly fee, allowing sites to monetize…
51-Foot-Long Fire-Breathing Dragon Is Declared the World’s Largest Walking Robot
A 51-foot-long fire-breathing robotic dragon built by Zollner Elektronik AG of Zandt, Germany was declared the World’s Largest Walking Robot by Guinness World Records. The…
‘Friends of the Galaxy’, A Mashup of ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ and the ‘Friends’ Theme Song
Robert Jones (previously) has created “Friends of the Galaxy,” a fantastic mashup of clips from Marvel‘s Guardians of the Galaxy and the Friends theme song.…
Holocaust Survivor Ela Stein Weissberger Offers a Message of Hope & Resistance in a Revival of the Opera ‘Brundibár’
Park Ridge, Illinois-based Petite Opera Productions has revived the children’s opera Brundibár, a piece written before World War II by Jewish Czech composer Hans Krása…