Stress relief...?

...or stress test?

Putting the flat in flat screen, it looks like crushing 17 LCD monitors with a steamroller could help vent some of that pent up office frustration.

Also, for whatever reason, this guy used gasoline to torch every generation of iPhone. (BTW, seems the older models survived better.)




And with all due respect to DoD standards, here's a superior way to erase a hard drive.

"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." -- Thomas Sowell

Strike one

Lightning strike obliterates telegraph pole: pic.twitter.com/8UIsFk3qg3

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Watch a lightning strike completely decimate this telephone pole, which obviously must have deserved it.

Also bad for your health, Australian cigarette packages do their best to dissuade with gruesome disease symptom labeling.

"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences." -- Robert Green Ingersoll

Bright idea

Though it's meant to turn night into day on a large-scale film set, this guy lit up a 20,000 watt light bulb indoors just for the heck of it. (The eyeball-searing action starts around eight minutes in.)

"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -- Ronald Reagan

Down on the upside

How does this ball defy the laws of physics and not roll off this roof? Look again. Perspective is everything.

And from the same source, an Escher-esque illusion along the same lines

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." -- John Lubbock

Discomfort zone

A bonanza of awkward and uncomfortable moments in this 15-minute cringe-inducing blooper reel sourced from the fertile ground of local TV news programs.

And weird news story of the day: Is there a toilet-themed restaurant in our future? Or maybe a new look for Chipotle?

"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober." -- William Butler Yeats

Arts and crafts

See what 90 hours of artist David Bayo's painstaking work drawing a million-dot stippling portrait looks like.


And lots of people can crochet, but Jayna Grassel can crochet fast.

"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor." -- Henry A. Kissinger

Bombardier

This accomplished bartender can pour 17 Jägerbombs at once in expectedly dramatic fashion.

And here's one good reason not to steal from the office fridge.

"Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times." -- W. C. Fields

Craftsmanship

Check out this guy's nifty stop-motion video "Woodoo" that makes it looks like he is cutting, stretching, and shaping plywood.

And someone went and built a wall around Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star.

"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." -- Isaac Asimov

Uber #2

A new entrant in the "gig economy" -- an on-demand clean-up-after-your-dog app called Pooper. Either hilarious or scary, depending.

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'" -- Don Marquis

Who nose?

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Woman creatively puts her nose and a Sharpie to use as a twerking puppet.

And some photos of people who will do a better job of applying sunscreen next time.

"Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling." -- Carlos Santana

Fastest gun in the East

Impressive, this Japanese gunslinger's slinging skills, despite the distinctly non-Western setting. And he's in Japan -- where gun laws are very strict -- so he has to practice with toy pistols.

"Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off." -- Phyllis Diller

Reshaping the world

Adorable and creative little animated short movie called "Deathigner" (like "designer" with a lisp, I guess) shows how each of us has to find our own way.

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." -- William Butler Yeats

Pattern matching

There's a cell phone lying somewhere on this carpet. Can you find it?


Watch 32 out-of-sync metronomes synchronize themselves through the magic of physics.




And see how your brain processes patterns by blinking at different speeds while looking at this trippy GIF.

"Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits." -- Barry Manilow

Hamster selfie machine

Small rodents put that little plastic treadmill to use with this self-powered Spirograph-esque drawing machine.

And if you're good with faces, then take this test to see if you're a "super recognizer".

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." -- Mother Teresa

Squared away

The Useless Duck Company has an improved version of its automatic toilet paper dispenser that might shave a few seconds (and fingers) off your bathroom activities.

And why just look at your photos when you can print them as pancakes?

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -- Mahatma Gandhi

Crack attic

Fissure in apartment ceiling turns out to be a bit more than a cosmetic blemish. Call the super.

And on that topic, check out this extremely slow-motion video of a ball hitting a pane of glass at 10 million frames per second.

"What you don't do can be a destructive force." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Sight unseen

I don't know if it's the effect of video cameras, but this artist's jaw-dropping 3D painting boggles the mind.

"Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art." -- Anselm Kiefer

Memorable lines

See if you can take four minutes of Matthew McConaughey making weird noises in his movies, courtesy of the same folks who realized that Owen Wilson is contractually obligated to say "wow" in every film.




Also H-wood-related, a fan used data to find the exact moment that Robert De Niro threw in the towel.

"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing." -- Robert Benchley

Paper chase

What would cause you to hear this automatic paper towel dispenser and know that it would groove perfectly with House of Pain's "Jump Around"?

And for other feats of paper, how about MOMO, the Museum of Modern Origami, which features everything from human figures to creepy insects.

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." -- Mark Twain

Got your number

Novel approach to beatboxing with Siri -- the advanced math version -- and it's a duet to boot.

And listen up: Every Noise at Once has a map of music genres that you can sample and click into to see/hear all the bands.

"When there are dogs and music, people have a good time." -- Emmylou Harris

Hang in there

Unsettling video footage shows a hang glider's hang glider collapsing in mid-flight, causing him to spiral towards the lake below. But for that emergency chute...

And this near-fearless maniac walked a record-breaking 3,346 feet of slackline between mountains. But for those safety lines...

"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will." -- W. Clement Stone

Medium well

Adding a degree of difficulty to his 4th of July BBQing, this guy used a drone to grill his steak. (Better than the kale-eating contest they're going to have at the Taste of Buffalo food festival.)

And only vaguely related, here's a site that's all about airline food.

"Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct." -- Denis Leary

Motion notion

Check out these bizarro dancing avatars, animations modeled on human dancers by Method Studios using a computer graphics technique called motion capture.

And other strange exteriors can be found in this McDonald's fashion catalog from 1987, a clothing fright show available to daring employees back when.

"Art is too serious to be taken seriously." -- Ad Reinhardt

Going once, going twice...

Check out these Auctioneer Beats, laid'down fresh, bringing the heat to the auction (or so it claims).

"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said." -- Peter Drucker

Eggs over-engineered

A retired airline pilot spent 1,000 hours building this Sunday morning breakfast-making contraption that can serve you eggs, toast, tea, and the newspaper.

"Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity." -- Samuel Richardson

Level two

Now there's a reason for Roombas to be sold in a two-pack: Roomba pong, better living through technology. Now if only it could clean up after the game is over...

And you decide -- is this ball-kicking man drunk or a master acrobat?

"No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity." -- Jacques Yves Cousteau

Civil union

Who'd ever have thought that Carl Sagan narration + Grand Theft Auto V scenes would make such beautiful and haunting machinima?

And an infographic of infographics -- the most popular ones mockingly generalized into their few basic types.

"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision." -- Helen Keller