Thrown for a bloop

So much local news out there, and turns out it *is* good for something, like these best news bloopers, for instance.

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again." -- Maya Angelou

Shredder rip

This ultra-slow-mo video of gumballs getting torn to shreds in a blender is nearly festive and sorta cool.

"When in doubt, do it." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

World foam-ous

Never would have thought a promotional video for foam pads would be this not-boring, but this English upholstery company is full of surprises.

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road." -- Henry Ward Beecher

Something fishy

Really strange but pretty damn cool concept, this fish made of sushi, which looks too real to eat.

And finally, a restaurant spiciness scale that's honest and accurate.

"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three." -- Laurence J. Peter

Chute, the gap

Exhilarating ski run through a ridiculously narrow crevice that the good Lord clearly did not intend to be skied through.

And if you think you're good at that sort of thing, see if you can dodge zombies. Easy at first but tough to keep going; just like in the movies. Good luck surviving for more than a couple-three minutes.

"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done." -- Lucille Ball

Embrace the season

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Cruelty to plants, maybe, but what's done is done, as in the case of this Venus fly trap in a googly-eye Santa Claus costume.

"Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind." -- Mary Ellen Chase

Great again

Ever wonder what Donald Trump would sound like if he ranted in a British accent rather than his trademark intonation? Me neither, but someone did.

And also from the other side of the Atlantic, The Guardian's quiz on how well you know your country, by the numbers.

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." -- Groucho Marx

Grass roots

Enjoy some local color with this most excellent crazy-ass rant unleashed at a City Council meeting. Scratchy toilet paper...?

And a quiz: Do you know in which state these TV shows are set?

"One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening." -- Franklin P. Jones

A matter of perspective

Even with the close-ups, can you tell the difference between what's real and what's not in these illusions?

And other things illusory, here's what a thousand bucks in rent (give or take) gets you, from coast to coast.

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -- Albert Einstein

Amateur auteur

This beautiful and powerful advertisement for Johnnie Walker called "Dear Brother" is all the more impressive because it was created by two talented film students.

No spoilers; make sure to watch it all the way through.

"Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough." -- Groucho Marx

Paper pushrod

You need the hands of a surgeon to build this ping-pong-ball-size working paper model of a V8 engine that really gets cranking when you hook up a can of compressed air.

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." -- R. Buckminster Fuller

Future imperfect

"Blade Runner" scene amusingly reenacted with Deckard attempting to analyze the photo he found using somewhat-lacking 2015 technology.

"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Home of the rave?

Another incredible, intricate, and over-engineered Christmas lights show, this time with dubstep, EDM, and other less traditional tunes for its soundtrack.

And the cultural differences between East and West, according to one artist, in simple graphical form. It's amazing what you can learn from a few pictures with no words.

"The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live." -- George Carlin

Helmet head

Yeah, yeah... another day and yet another "Star Wars" parody. But this one is different. "Darth Trump" uses only 100%-natural Trump audio clips, and just might restore your faith and hope in the fountain of YouTube.

"You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own." -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Wired weird

Parodic production reinterprets Lou Reed's classic counterculture composition "Walk on the Wild Side", artfully employing Twitter profiles to "sing" the lyrics.

"Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality." -- Joseph Conrad

Pound for pound

This 5-year-old percussion prodigy proffers a pro-style performance of System of a Down's "Toxicity" that will almost surely make you feel inadequate about any musical skill you may think you have.

"Do whatever you do intensely." -- Robert Henri

Hands-free

This 60-year old "granddude" demonstrates how he's mastered the art of beer yoga, placing a frothy cup on his head and drinking it without using his hands or arms.

"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." -- Miguel de Cervantes

Found in space

Nice little claymation video makes an excellent primer explaining asteroids, comets, meteors, and meteorites if you're in need of an intro to space rocks and such.

And an interactive map to help you answer the question, "Should I hate daylight saving time?".

"There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part." -- Bram Stoker

Silent night

It's that time of year again, so why not get yourself into the Christmas spirit with 45 minutes of Nick Offerman sipping whisky in silence by a yule log. Quite relaxing, especially for him.

"A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet." -- Truman Capote

Roundtrip

Who needs drones, anyway? Putting a new spin on things, this guy mounted a video camera on a three-blade boomerang and let 'er rip. The resulting footage is surprisingly stable.

"Doubt is the father of invention." -- Ambrose Bierce

Smashcam

Doe doh! A carefree deer in Kenton County, Kentucky gets lucky (?) after colliding with a police cruiser. (In the deer's defense, I guess it was a busy intersection.)

"It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious." -- Bill Hicks

Hope to it

What's the story? "It's going to be okay" from The Oatmeal puts a new face on an old (and true) tale.

"A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists." -- Don Marquis

Pipe it

A novel use for the ocean, this 230-foot-wide "sea organ" perpetually plays music as waves come in to shore. If left for a near-eternity, will it eventually play all the great works of Beethoven, Mozart, etc.?

"The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever." -- Herb Caen

Stroke of luck

Check this clip of a lightning bolt striking a car. Or maybe it's a new Tesla in-flight recharging innovation.

"If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron." -- Lee Trevino

"Hello" again (and again)

In case you haven't had enough of this song... impressive impersonator sings Adele's "Hello" in the styles of 25 different artists, from Janis Joplin, to Backstreet Boys, to Guns 'N Roses. Hey, at least it's a change of pace.

"Music can change the world because it can change people." -- Bono

On the upswing

How well can you buy low and sell high? Play this stock market trading game and find out.

And two-thirds of the world can’t pass this basic financial literacy test. Can you?

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is." -- Oscar Wilde

Fraidy

I'm a little behind on news, but apparently cats are afraid of cucumbers. Who woulda thought. Cat owners: Don't (or do) try this at home.

"It's not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it." -- Hans Selye

Line of fire

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Check out this mongous row of leaves light up in a badass backyard line explosion (with a little help from some gasoline).

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." -- Albert Camus

Birdbrain

From the BBC comes this clip showing off the puissant problem-solving prowess of the crow. Almost too impressive to believe.

"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." -- Jeff Valdez

Rockin' McRoll

"Will It Sushi?" poses the question to a Big Mac. And the answer? It sure will.

"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are." -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Tough enough

If you wanted to crush a car, you probably wouldn't immediately think "mechanical manure spreader". But the Artex CB1200 packs the gear to do just that. And to demonstrate its power, someone sacrificed a Geo Metro to the farm equipment gods. (Alright, no engine, but still...)

"What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible." -- Theodore Roethke

Final answers

If you have a little time on your hands, check out Infinite Final Jeopardy!, which has (almost) every final answer from the past 30+ years, exactly as it originally aired, on a random loop.

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." -- Benjamin Franklin

Tug o' war

You might suffer vicarious seasickness watching this tugboat attempt to tow this broken-down Russian aircraft carrier in rough waters. [Details at Jalopnik Alpha Foxtrot.]

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." -- Muhammad Ali

Looking glass

This trippy late-60s government-sponsored "Alice in Wonderland" anti-drug PSA makes it all look fun, with whatever's in that bottle transporting you to a color-filled psychedelic world inhabited by fantastic creatures. (Sounds something like whatever this couple took, only better.)

And to make sure you're ready, play this quick game to test your color vision. (Apparently being red/green colorblind isn't a handicap here.)

"No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten." -- Hunter S. Thompson,

Forethought

An 18-year-old interviews himself 38 years later in this "time-travel talk show" clip from a movie he's making. Cool concept.

"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late." -- William Shakespeare

Upgrade

Alanis Morissette reprises her 1995 hit "Ironic", updated with lyrics for the Internet age, on The Late Late Show with James Corden.

And a little musicological quiz... can you pick the final word in these song titles?

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons." -- R. Buckminster Fuller

Anyone you know?

Nic De Houwer from Belgium does 50 fairly decent voice impersonations in 5 minutes, and it sounds like he can sound like just about anybody.

"We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free." -- Jiddu Krishnamurti

A walk in the park

Float like a butterfly, sting like a ..........spotted skunk? Like the other three groups of skunks, spotted skunks are capable of spraying a strong unpleasant scent as a form of defense. But before spraying, spotted skunks will sometimes go into a handstand and attempt to intimidate any would be aggressors like this wildlife camera, placed in Happy Valley.Biotech Nic Perkins NPS video

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Video clip of a spotted skunk dancing in a handstand doing his intimidation routine before getting ready to blast you with a dose of nature's cologne.

"Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself." -- Andrew Carnegie

Jet set

A classic video with a classic end to a classic toy... watch Tickle Me Elmo meet his fate, obliterated by a jet engine.

And not really related, life spans of the animal kingdom. (Spoiler: jellyfish wins. How can you beat immortal?)

"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent." -- Carl Sagan

Moving moving-pictures pictures

This gallery of classic movie posters brought to life is far better than sitting through 30 minutes of previews.

"If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right." -- Woody Allen

Over it

Sir David Attenborough marshals his unmistakable and unmatched voice-over talents to narrate Adele's new video for her song "Hello".

"It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist." -- Muriel Spark

You make the call

Many of us need the Logical Fallacy Ref to throw the flag every now and again.

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." -- Albert Einstein

Let it grain

Glue together two panes of glass with sand in between them and you get some surreal sandscape art.

"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone." -- Jorge Luis Borges

A little loopy

Riding a motorcycle is probably dangerous enough in the best of circumstances, but riding one on a roller coaster? Sheer lunacy.

"My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me." -- Franz Kafka

Fright right

For your Halloween viewing enjoyment, a short and somewhat disturbing video called "Bedfellows", along with the 17 others listed here.

"Have the courage to act instead of react." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Foley and completely

The imagination of a Foley artist recreating the sounds of everyday life becomes more and more absurd until...

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." -- Theodore Roosevelt

Book smart

Don't judge a book by its cover, lest ye be judged.

And two thumbs down... see if you can match the review to the contemporary classic novel.

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx

It will make your skin crawl

Check out how these tattoos transform into living animations, courtesy of some 3D body mapping.

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles." -- Charlie Chaplin

Misdirection

People running backwards, in reverse, look like they're being slowly chased by something vaguely threatening.

"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass." -- Martin Mull

Dog eat dog

This first-canine video of a dog battling two wolves might be slightly disturbing, but you can feel better knowing the dog survived. (Some background in English at this Gizmodo post.)

"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees." -- Joseph Joubert

Saturday AM cartoons

Awesome edit of trippy Spongebob episodes set to "Warpigs", the Black Sabbath classic.

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." -- Maya Angelou

Apparition

Musicless music video featuring Ray Parker, Jr.'s "Ghostbusters" is a work of silent sinister genius. Or the ghost of Huey Lewis?​

"Originality is the art of concealing your source." -- Franklin P. Jones

DBA

Check out this crowdsourced map of punny business names, some wry, some cringeworthy.

"The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'" -- Jeff Bezos

Cupbeat

Dig this quick video of McDonalds cup dubstep goodness.

And a quiz: Is it an '80s band or super PAC?

"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars." -- Charles Kuralt

Showman

You might not think about Liberace as a virtuoso pianist, but check out this display of speed and dexterity on the ivories.

"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." -- Frank Herbert

Flightpath

Nice work on this time-lapsed, tilt-shifted look at a day in the life of Japan's Haneda Airport.

"There are no facts, only interpretations." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Tithing around

Catchy dance remix from music producer and mashup genius Pogo is something of a sequel to the classic viral video "Farting Priest" starring the fraudulent televangelist Robert Tilton.

"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others." -- Buddha

Claymotion

Apparently this clay morphing to the beat of Bach is an essay, rather an enthralling and Rorschachian stop-motion animation. Either way.

"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing." -- Salvador Dali

Happy accidents

Despite having perfectly good scripts at their disposal, these 10 movie bloopers made it to the final cut.

"Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else." -- Sean Connery

Attack attack

Courtesy of BBC Earth, a bevy of "killer animals" showing off their unique methods of acquiring dinner in slow motion.

"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside." -- Mark Twain

Four left feet

Not even mildly surprising, freestyle dancing with dogs is yet another interesting pastime uncovered only on the interwebs.

"It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found." -- Wilson Mizner

Keys to life

Studly schoolkids from the Louisville Leopard Percussionists rock the xylophones to the tune of Led Zep's "Kashmir" and "The Immigrant Song". (They also do a pretty mean version of "Crazy Train".)

This outfit offers low/no-cost extracurricular music opportunities to kids and seems worthy of supporting, if you're so inclined.

"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune." -- Kin Hubbard

Troubled bridge

Amazing action video of a bridge collapsing over a river in New Zealand, shot by one of the falling hikers.

"In short, Luck's always to blame." -- Jean de La Fontaine

Squatter's rights

Get your, uh, act together -- get one of these stools for your stool. Unicorn not included. (Thanks Kate)

And a quiz: can you guess these inventions based on their patent illustrations?

"Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet." -- Scott Adams

Pushy

One man's successful collaboration with his girlfriend's pet rabbit results in pushcart beer delivery and a new type of utility performance art.

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Legal history

In this episode of Judge Judy, "Dumb and Dumber", the accused pulls off the defense of the century. Doh!

"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished." -- Jeremy Bentham

Effortless

The Cure's "Just Like Heaven" vs. The Commodores' "Easy" results in some mashup wonderment that makes an unexpected connection.

"I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears." -- Adele

Overextended

This Pizza Hut "PSA" attempts to expose the little known dangers of selfie sticks. The Hut just might have succeeded, as the video is almost as stupid as the thing it mocks.

"I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity." -- Diana Vreeland

A matter of degree

Lack of sleep, cherry pits, and other things that can kill you.

"Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'" -- Bill Maher

Spammy dreams

What if all your email spam was actually true? Would your life be any different?

And a look back at what your favorite websites used to look like in that thing called the past.

"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar." -- Jerome K. Jerome

Putting the I in paint

Take a ride on a three-minute time-lapse rollercoaster and watch this Dutch artist create.

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun." -- Pablo Picasso

100-to-1

Scenes from a hundred movies fluidly mashed up into one "Uptown Funk" dance video.

"The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me. I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance." -- Johnny Depp

G-zuz

Watch this major badass take it to a 9G centrifuge test. Shock and awe.

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence." -- Vince Lombardi

Bricks rock

He wood if he could, but check out the craftsmanship of this guitar made out of Legos. Now let's see them do that with a trumpet. Or a piano.

"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master." -- Duke Ellington

Saved by the bell

Kid walks away from possible death with just seconds to spare.

"The idea is to die young as late as possible." -- Ashley Montagu

Take 'er for a spin

Insane biker does a backflip over a low-flying airplane in an amazing and seriously risky stunt. A few thrilling seconds that required two years of planning.

"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing." -- Warren Buffett

ham-donkey-mock

Just like the sign says, it's a donkey chillin' in a hammock. (I'll mercifully skip the obvious puerile @ss jokes.)

And, an interactive graphic that shows how many years you have left to live, probably.

"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it." -- Sydney J. Harris

Ready, set, goat

And down on the farm, unexpected athletic prowess demo'd in some tiny goat parkour, performed on a stack of straw bales.

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination." -- Tommy Lasorda

Dragon breath

As if it didn't look badass enough in regular mo, fire breathing in bullet-time is all that and then some.

"Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within." -- Miguel de Cervantes

The key of H2O

A so-called videosong, where the music is made with plastic water bottles, from noises as building blocks. And probably not quite how you were thinking it was.

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder

Within reach

Observe a 20-inch tongue in action -- on a giraffe. Gene Simmons eat your heart (or whatever) out.

"There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it." -- Van Morrison

Mini mundus

Crocodile goes on a 360° trip of the planet Berlin.


And fun with maps... see areas with populations equal to New York City, Los Angeles, and more.

"The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate." -- O. Henry

And over on Oxford...

Why did Contrix cross the road? Because he could do it like this.

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things." -- Ray Bradbury

Cosmetagic

Watch as this makeup artist transforms herself into her Siberian Husky, proving that old bit about people looking like their pets.

"Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is." -- Jorge Luis Borges

Wah wah wah

Guitar pedals aren't usually considered funny, but this Korg Miku "singing" effects pedal review has to rate somewhere in the neighborhood.

"I praise loudly. I blame softly." -- Catherine the Great

Wholesome ingredients

A well-worn meme, but Mary Poppins singing death metal gratifies nonetheless.

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." -- Albert Camus

Mixed emotions

From some "animals eating animals" channel, this Wildebeest nature video re-edited to lessen the sorrow is funny but also telling about the power of labels.

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yeast I could do

With all the opening, rising, and plumping that goes on, bread baking in slow-mo timelapse could be rated for mature audiences only. (Money shot is at the 00:27 mark.)

"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature." -- Edmund Burke

Sit and spin

Video of the incredible bicycle gymnast might be an early warning sign that the Olympics finally has hit bottom.

"She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life." -- Susan B. Anthony

Redirection

Magician Jose Ahonen performed some sleight-of-hand on dogs, successfully fooling them with the ol' disappearing treat trick. (Dare try that with my dogs and risk making one of your fingers disappear.)

"In art, the obvious is a sin." -- Edward Dmytryk

Flameboyant

Valentin Guérin performs Arthur Pryor's "Fantastic Polka" on the pyro-trombone, as they call it. Wonder how they lit the candelabra...?

"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible." -- T. E. Lawrence

Once removed

Tired of web "surfing" the old-fashioned way? Then try Random Useful Websites, a useful website that takes you to another useful website, selected at random.


And speaking of random, take the xkcd Survey to help find weird correlations from answers to random questions.

"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Personal space

Hot tub time... seven capybaras chill (?) in a steaming spa at the Saitama Children's Zoo in Japan.

"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival." – Aristotle

Down with that

Quick diversion in this little run of brain-bending, gravity-defying parkour-esque illusions.

"I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five."-- Steven Wright

Nasty habits

Charlie the badass venus fly trap takes 10 minutes off his life.

"Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lingua franca

Comedic video runs down the massive collection of overused and clichéd business buzzwords that cubicle-dwelling folk use every day. Just another day at Avaya, I 'spose.

"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows." -- Aristotle Onassis

Rock of Ages

Straight outta Phoenix... Okilly Dokilly is a conundrum and the world’s first and only "Nedal" band, an unlikely combo of God-fearing neighborino Ned Flanders from "The Simpsons" and some ilk of (so-called) heavy metal.

"You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside -- so be it. But at least you know you've tried." -- Robert Plant

Headwinds

Faces look crazy when being blown back in extreme slow motion. Or, the worst family bbq ever.

"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." -- Voltaire

Animal crackers

Use your eyes to watch this internet madness -- a self-proclaimed acid flashback simulator, apparently made in Bollywood. Your regret will be eternal.

"The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are." -- Reggie Jackson

Mother of invention

Mom offers food to baby if he can say "mama", but hungry dog beats him to it.

"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill." -- Buddha

What a drag

Magnus effect makes for an interesting basketball trick and "world's highest score".

And an easy way to write your own science news story, Mad Libs style.

"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science." -- Edwin Powell Hubble

One toe over the line

Sweet Jesus. Check out the world record for free solo insane slacklining.

And a map quiz: Can you name the next bordering state on a U.S. map without backtracking? Easy enough.

"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." -- Aristotle

Diamond dogs

Know what your pooch is up to at night? Maybe a Puppy Rave...? (And of course it's fake; it's based on this original video.)

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -- Abraham Lincoln

Airspace

Eagle swoops in for a little snatch & grab and takes down a drone.

And ever try herding cats? Good luck with this new puzzle game.

"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in." -- Andrew Jackson

Hot air

Event at the National Balloon Classic balloon festival called "Dawn Patrol" makes for a pretty fair (and short) time-lapse video.

"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." -- Dalai Lama

Opening statement

First impressions last... can you identify movies based on their opening shots?

"The beginning is the most important part of the work." -- Plato

Dream with the fishes

Not sure what to say about this strange and discomforting piece of video magic about How To Revive a Fish.

Also, how to stop a mad dog, and other "life hacks" from 100 years ago. Ah, the good old days.

"If you can't convince them, confuse them." -- Harry S. Truman

Motley media

Another cool art school project called Embroidered Zoetrope from Elliot Schultz that entails creating discs with embroidered animation sequences that are played on a turntable under a strobe light.

"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success." -- Pablo Picasso

Ultimate sacrifice

The Vegan Black Metal Chef started it all with Pad Thai, and the rest is for the ages.

"I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?" -- Leo Durocher

Roadwork

Yeah, I'd yield to this peeved bicyclist who lifts and moves a car that's blocking the bike lane.

Also for those who like things just so, a gallery of OCD-delighting symmetry.

"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Space and time

Take a journey through space, time and FM radio music on Lightyear.fm. Nice presentation, and nostalgia provoking. Where do you want to be?

And an infotaining way to kill a little time... play "Who is Bigger?" and rank the importance and fame of historical figures.

"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies." -- Alexis de Tocqueville

Oy, Robot

Amusing compilation reel of robots showing off their chops. It's never too early to be paranoid, but if robots are the future, bring it on.

And in case you were wondering or worrying about the singularity, no need to fear Skynet -- yet.

"You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands." -- Hunter S. Thompson

Avant-garde

Don't ask why, but this guy recorded his flatulence and (again, don't ask why) noticed something distinctly musical about it and (again...) recorded a symphony of sorts in the key of A-fart minor.

Also up a musical alley, the Jazz Computer is moderately entertaining interactive HTML5 musical art.

"I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big." -- Larry David

Crapnado

Sharks punctuate this entertaining supercut video of the worst movie special effects of all time. We've come a long way.

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self." -- Ernest Hemingway

Inside the box

I'll bet the good folks at Avaya say none of these all-too-overused b*11sh!t bingo terms that they mock in Stuff Business People Say.

And speaking of mocking, classic jokes explained, McSweeney's style.

"In a time of universal deceit -- telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell

Out of school

Puppy speaks, though inappropriately so. (NSFW)

And a recipe for disasters, in case you want to know the odds.

"When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful." -- Malala Yousafzai

Freestylin'

Check out this recorder+beatboxing performance so amazing that it seems like he must be cheating.

"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion." -- Jack Kerouac

Flight club

Air traffic in and out of London airports is hypno-art-ic. (Amazingly, over 3,000 flights a day with no ATC-related delay.)

And why does Carpets for Airports deeply and affectionately celebrate "the floor beneath the sky above your feet"? (In case you wonder... this is why.)

"You can observe a lot by just watching." -- Yogi Berra

Hydrate

Some half-marathoners in Tennessee get a dose of Deliverance-style encouragement from the Bailey Bottom Boys.

"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless." -- Bill Watterson

B-slide

Slippery driveway incident inadvertently recreates the distinctive opening from Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

"A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled." -- Raymond Chandler

Carry-on baggage

Small cat takes unexpected short trip on tiny plane.

"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew." -- Marshall McLuhan

Wholly moley

Construction workers (or maybe just some guys at a construction site?) play whack-a-mole in some real-life virtual reality.

And there're two kinds of people in this world... some enjoyable, well-observed illustrations.

"You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig." -- Blondie, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"

Hitting bottom

"Limbo Queen" Shemika Charles holds the Guinness World Record for the female limbo at 8.5 inches. Here she is doing a multi-point car inspection the hard way.

"Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done." -- Amelia Earhart

Trace evidence

Some Aussie animation students were given a project to rotoscope Taylor Swift's "Shake it Off" music vid, which they completed to pretty fair results.

And for some mock hand-drawn fun, coloring books for grown-ups.

"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones." -- John Maynard Keynes

Man of a thousand voices

This pencil-horned man is better at making animal sounds than you are, and likely better than some of the animals, too.


And in the same kingdom, some sad animal facts.

"There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway." -- Paul McCartney

Weird on top

If Kubrick met Lynch, you'd have this "Blue Shining" mashup. In heaven, everything is fine.

"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open." -- Alexander Graham Bell

As seen on teevee

Putting the fanatic in fan fiction, this guy built the next-best thing to the flamethrowing guitar in "Mad Max: Fury Road": a flamethrowing ukulele.

And try this boundless compendium of future predictions from the past for a dose of fun with your nostalgia.

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." -- Doug Larson

City delights

A video Paris vs. New York, a tally of two cities. You decide the winner.

"No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination." -- James Joyce

Let it roll

Owls rather graphically reenact one of life's well-known axioms.

"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door." -- Charles Dickens

Office, space

The classic movie "Alien" remade with an office stapler delivers the same nearly unbearable tension as the original.

"I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact." -- Elon Musk

Positive ID

Perhaps one of the more touching commercials I've seen in a while. What does the cat say? (Thanks Bomser)

And some famous fictional and historical lives, from Darth Vader to Jesus, depicted through minimalist pictogram flowcharts.

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men that died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived." -- George S. Patton

Digital dancing

Drunken wedding video shows impressive finger dancing skills, aided by the camera stability control. Either that or it's an effusive toast in ASL.

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Corn or vinyl?

Ever wonder what a tortilla sounds like when spun on a record player. Who'd have thought it?

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." -- Groucho Marx

Attention get

The slogan "Keep [My City] Weird" might have originated in Austin, but those folks in Texas got nothing on Portland, as witnessed by this bizarre bagpiping ball balancer.

And some good gifs as Mad Men meets modern age digital advertising in this well-done Tumblr.

"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of." -- John Stuart Mill

Writeous

Seb Lester knocks out some freehand corporate logos that bear uncanny resemblance to the originals. (More at his Instagram.)

And use that power wisely... self-publishing mishaps yield horrendous ebook cover designs (and in some cases, plots).

"I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art." -- Willem de Kooning

Ledge end

Video of an insane lunatic doing some parkour jumps across building ledges is 15 seconds of spine tingling. Featured comment: "He's very brave. I wouldn't be caught dead in cutoff jean shorts."

And what must be a popular Japanese game show features two women, a cockroach, and a clear plastic tube. Up to you to make your stomach turn with just one click.

"Always do what you are afraid to do." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Nam flashback

You will not laugh. You will not cry. Two popular alterations to a Full Metal Jacket scene combined in a liquidy form.

And a quick quiz... can you name the presidents for every applicable letter in the alphabet in under a minute?

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story." -- Orson Welles

Firewater

This "epic" battle between firehose vs. flamethrower reminds of comic book characters facing off with power streams or whatever. Just a few silly string cans away from real-life rochambeaux.

"Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that." -- George Carlin

Eleventh plague

Hilarious-ish and true short animation mocks humanity's near universal addiction to smartphones.

Or just embrace it and send (presumably) unwanted goat messages to other people's phones.

"I invented the cordless extension cord." -- Steven Wright

Dog gets beat

Passive pooch plays percussion to White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army". (And does a fine job of it.)

"Where words fail, music speaks." -- Hans Christian Andersen

Gravi-tea

Is this man pouring tea, pulling taffy, or just testing the boundaries of street vendor physics?

"If it wasn't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever." -- David Letterman

Nailed it

Intramedullary nails are quite the workout to work out, and the removal is more than a little off-putting. These doctors should spend more time at the batting cages than the golf course.

And a Tumblr of not just facts, but ultrafacts.

"I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places." -- Henny Youngman

Do unto others

Short-fused monkey takes no guff from his antagonist and delivers swift and merciless jumpkick-to-the-face justice. Almost seemed like they had a long-running beef...

Type in your age and find out what David Bowie was doing at the same time.

"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance." -- Thomas Huxley

Musical tubes

Bach's Prelude No. 1, boomwhacker-style, doesn't quite have the orchestra's typical fluid precision. Maybe a tubular version of the William Tell Overture is more your speed.

"A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again." -- W. E. B. Du Bois

The stuff of dreams

What does schadenfreude sound like? Poor, poor zillionaire pop-star backers... all the high hopes, yet Tidal is getting its proverbial @ss kicked by Spotify and other streaming services. But you can help for just pennies a day.

"Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal." – Don Shula

Jockey shorts

It's not the Super Bowl halftime show, but rider Blake Shinn had a small wardrobe malfunction in the first race.

And this guy asked the Internet to photoshop the Eiffel Tower under his finger. The Internet responded just as you would expect.

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." -- Thomas Jefferson

GoProne

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These guys put a GoPro on a sparrow and captured some incredible video.

And some impressive zoom profferred on this (relatively) cheap camera with no special equipment.

"The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That's why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, 'Bye!'" -- Jerry Seinfeld

Sabotage

Two guys infiltrate an Apple Store and pretend to work there, recommending that customers buy Microsoft products instead, as they strive to become Apple's "number two" employees. (But really, a $10K digital watch...?)

"Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion." -- Thornton Wilder

Paddle battle

It's not football but Polish Dragon Boat Rowing: Tug of Oar edition is a clever idea for a competition.

"Sports is the toy department of human life." -- Howard Cosell

Good fences

If you've ever had upstairs neighbors and wondered, this is what they're really up to.

And what the tech...? 25 pictures that perfectly sum up the state of the Bay Area.

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." -- Mahatma Gandhi

Stay off the furniture

Strange catch of the day: a silent video of three dogs tearing a wooden chair to shreds. Why, you ask? Beats me, but a fascinating oddity indeed.

And "Alien vs. Pooh" a literary mashup that'll probably end up published by Penguin.

"Every dogma has its day." -- Anthony Burgess

Roll with it

As if not creepy and haunting in their own right, black-and-white Teletubbies + Joy Division = stranger things indeed. I never really understood what was going on with them before, and I'm sure not any closer now.

"If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer." -- Yogi Berra

With a flourish

Five guys who call themselves The Virts shuffle (and spin, and twirl, and flip) cards to the point of higher art form.

"Moonlight is sculpture." -- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Eagle doers

POV video captures an eagle's descent from the world's tallest building with breathtaking views of Dubai before he breaks into a dive and returns to his trainer.

And file this under "Insane" -- a fantastically detailed Boeing 777 scale model made from manila folders.

"What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?" -- George Carlin

Test pattern

For those aficionados of major-network TV, a faux fall TV lineup nearly as funny as the actual crappy shows it lampoons.

And in case you're ever on the show, where to find "Jeopardy" daily doubles.

"My folks came to [the] U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien." -- Leonard Nimoy

Ear opener

Watch this touching moment when a father of four experiences silence for the first time in more than ten years.

Also, play Google Feud and guess how Google autocompletes certain queries. Not predictable and not easy.

"While there is life, there is hope." -- Jules Verne

K9 Five-O

Transform your mutt into a police dog with this one simple trick that the cops don't want you to know. Surprising that PETA isn't all over it.

And seems there's a new "premiere marketplace for privilege" called WellDeserved, that even as comedy is somewhat nauseating. But I guess we deserve it.

"Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize." -- James Joyce

Drop kick

The magic of video puts you right up front in the world's tallest and fastest "giga coaster", which is modeled after a hornet's flight and destined for a Charlotte, NC, amusement park. Viewing not recommended after eating.

And scroll slow, have fun, which might leave you wanting more when you're done.

"There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option." -- Dean Smith

Worst case

Last I checked, advertising is supposed to stimulate a consumer's desire for whatever it is that you're selling. Who knows what the Halifax (Nova Scotia) Downtown Business Commission is thinking. But it's funny.

And see where "Chinstrap" and the "Lip Quilt" fall in the rankings of the best men's facial hair, from top to bottom.

"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers -- six if one went to Harvard." -- Edgar Fiedler

Lone wolf

Uncomfortable man caught seeing "50 Shades Of Grey" seems more like he's walking out of a peep show.

And unrelated, the nihilism of Werner Herzog's thoughts, presented as a series of inspirational posters.

"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." - P. J. O'Rourke

Reverse psychology

Finally accepting the facts about YouTube viewers, Geico makes you an ad you can't refuse.

"Genius is eternal patience." -- Michelangelo

Soporific

Cat with a touch of sleep apnea snores a pillow into submission, likely keeping any bedmates wide awake.

And these hypnotic geometric GIFs probably wouldn't be of much help fighting that battle.

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone." -- Anthony Burgess

Don't fear the retriever

Don't fear the (Golden) Retriever. An amusing Vine with enough cowbell, maybe(?).

"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." -- Jeanne Moreau

A little help from my friends

Nifty demonstration by "Physics Girl" of how to make a golf ball bounce 8X higher than its drop point and how this relates to supernovas, of all things.

"All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work." -- Thomas J. Watson

Striptese

What happens if you adhere Bach's "Crab Canon", a musical sequence designed to be played played front to back and back to front, on a looping Möbius strip? Genius.

And "Free Strips of Paper" is but one in this list of amusing fliers posted on a bulletin board near you.

"Music is the strongest form of magic." -- Marilyn Manson

Distant shores

Oddball video unveils a new (for me, anyway) form of internet weirdness, replete with much messy gunge. Go ahead, keep watching and thinking it'll make sense...

"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water." -- Carl Reiner

Clouded judgment

Not a bad morning commute, just 1,768 feet. Straight up. I suppose there are worse jobs.

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." -- George Burns

Art rustler

Drone flies over cattle while ranchers try their hand at Cow Art with the feed truck.

And the nifty alleged features of the supposedly (but not really) forthcoming Apple Car.

"My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me." -- David Lynch

Remakes

Just in time for the Oscars, check out "Scenes You've Seen", the Award Winners Edition, where you can try to guess the Oscar-winning movies from clips recreated using stock footage. (The original with 14 classic movies might be a little easier.)

And Name that Beep lets you try your luck at matching sounds to gadgets.

"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder." -- Alfred Hitchcock

Unsung hero

Holy mother of pearl -- imagine the practice that must have gone into playing John Coltrane's "Blue Train" note for note on a recorder, clearly the most underrated member of the woodwind family.

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater." -- Albert Einstein