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