Laughing Squid
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Global No Pants Subway Ride 2013
The 12th annual No Pants Subway Ride takes place on January 13. The event traces its origins to an Improv Everywhere mission in New York…
Just a Second, One Man’s Year in 1 Second Daily Increments
Photographer Kent Frost has created Just a Second, an entire year (2012), one day at a time, in one-second increments.
Red Hot Ball of Nickel Reacts Most Curiously To Water
A red hot ball of nickel is dropped in a cup of water, resulting in a most unexpected reaction, in this demonstration of the Leidenfrost…
53 Terrible Jokes Told in 4 Minutes by Hank Green
Hank Green of the VlogBrothers and EcoGeek compiled a funny four minute video where he quickly tells 53 Terrible Jokes. The list of jokes used…
Life-Size Replica of HAL 9000 Interface From 2001: A Space Odyssey
The HAL 9000 Life-Size Replica by ThinkGeek is an impressively accurate, voice-activated recreation of HAL 9000, the AI computer villain from the 1968 sci-fi film…
New Year’s Resolution
New Year’s Resolution on Bizarro
Giant Fully-Operational LEGO NES Video Game Controller
New York designer and custom LEGO builder Julius von Brunk (aka “Baron von Brunk“) has created an impressive fully-operational 5 foot replication of an original…
Wonderful View of Trombone Playing As Seen From the Perspective of a GoPro Camera Mounted on the Slide
David Finlayson, second trombonist for the New York Philharmonic, recorded a great up close view video of him playing music on his trombone by attaching…
A Dollhouse Built Inside of an Acoustic Guitar
Lorraine Robinson of Fairy Meadow Miniatures in Australia created this beautiful dollhouse inside of an acoustic guitar as a thoughtful birthday gift for daughter Cathryn…
BBC Cameraman Has a Very Close Encounter with a Polar Bear
While filming The Polar Bear Family & Me in Svalbard, Norway, BBC cameraman Gordon Buchanan had a close encounter with a female polar bear .