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