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