Hoarse feathers

Cockatoo barks like a dog, and I'm sure the owner's looking forward to the next 60 years of it.

"God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages." -- Jacques Deval

Twist beginning

Check out this clever and unique short thriller called "Rewind", created by Atul Taishete, where the story is told backward and unfolds entirely in reverse.

"I'd always rather be lucky than smart." -- Donald Luskin

Digital fortitude

Got 18 hours you don't know what to do with? Then watch the full and uncut video of a guy setting the world record for fastest to click a mouse one million times. Impressive in a strange way that only humans can be.

And if you've got more time to kill, here's 10 hours of never-ending fractal video with falling Shepard's Tone soundtrack if you want to unhinge your mind for some reason.

"How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on." -- Zall's Second Law

Shell shock

Stand back and watch this fellow smash 124 coconuts. In under a minute. With his bare hands.

And take out a little frustration with Slap Kirk, which allows you to "refresh" the captain of the Starship Enterprise until the man comes to his senses. (Warning: slapping noises.)

"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one." -- E. B. White

Armed robbery

Cat attempts goal line interception of dog treat, and is promptly penalized for encroachment.

And cat bowling, sort of... the "Dim Dim" is a see-through chair, swing, and bed for your feline that's looking to be kickstarted.

"Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental." -- Doug Plank

Egg-ceptional

It's not a miracle, but it is rare... feel for the poor chicken that produced this egg-inside-an-egg.

And along the same lines, a hidden drawer-in-a-drawer.

A hidden drawer in a drawer

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths." -- Steven Wright

Pocket change

I think Rube Goldberg would approve of this absurdly protracted billiards trick shot that took two full minutes to complete, covering two floors and nine different pool tables at a pub in the UK.

"It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans." -- Robert Lynd

Fast food flambe

Dashcam footage from a quick-thinking police officer saving a Jack-in-the-Box from a cooking fate worse than its food.

And probably unrelated to the incident, there's a Google Docs spreadsheet where people are posting texts they want to send their exes.

"Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love." -- Ovid

It's all in the reflexes

Jesus saves baby at ifly

Quick-acting employee saves toddler from head-plant, and saves distracted father's bacon.

And this eyeless, brainless, scary-ass worm that snatches its dinner from a hole in the ocean floor could bill itself as nature's death trap.

"Be great in act, as you have been in thought." -- Jean Paul

Mind over matter

Smartass

Brainy burro takes the old "work smarter, not harder" saying to heart; and with manners to boot.

And some say you eat with your eyes first. So an enterprising student did an experiment to see if sight affected taste, concocting these appetizing poop-shaped brownies. The nuts and caramel sauce are a nice touch.

My Daughters Science Project.  She wanted to see if sight effected taste.

"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education." -- Mark Twain

Slapstick shot

No matter how good you think you are at ping pong, you'll marvel at this compilation of table tennis trick shots that both amazes and entertains with a healthy helping of humor. (They've also got a Vine account where all their tricks and skits are posted.)

"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." -- Oscar Wilde

Swing of things

Why not a working Whac-a-Mole game made from Legos to get out all your frustrations? And it even keeps score.

And a Newton's Cradle made from light bulbs might bring perpetual motion, as long as they don't break.

"Idleness is the beginning of all vices." -- Proverb

Glowing reviews

Kayakers covered with LED lights paddling down a waterfall in the pitch dark make for a very cool effect on film.

"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you." -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Get packing

Take a whirlwind trip around the world and sightsee famous landmarks, virtually, in a little over two minutes, courtesy of a hyperlapse made from more than three thousand Google Earth screenshots.

And FamilyBreakFinder created this map with the slogans of every country's official tourism board.

"A great way to learn about your country is to leave it." -- Henry Rollins

Locking horns

In Anchorage, Alaska, a couple of moose duke it out in the front yard of a random suburban house.

And while antlers with laser beams would be a step up, you'll have to settle for a 100,000-RPM top with razor blades and seeing what it can destroy.

"If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year." -- Mark Twain

Errant boy

This might look like a chase scene from an action movie, but it's just a lunatic on a scooter provoking traffic accidents and near-death experiences.

And 30 minutes of morning arrivals -- "rush hour" at London's Heathrow Airport -- amounts to a plane landing every other minute.

"Most motorcycle problems are caused by the nut that connects the handlebars to the saddle." -- Unknown

The persistence of imagery

I don't know if this fellow's idea for a tattoo is worthy of permanence, this line of animated figures that turns him into a living zoetrope when he spins around.

And the Sun, a tree, and a garage door conspire to make cool pareidolia.

The garage door is staring at me

"I want to get a tattoo of myself on my entire body, only two inches taller." -- Steven Wright

Backyard blues

can you see why the dogs are barking?

Got any idea why these dogs are barking? Take a guess.

And a quiz from Smithsonian magazine that'll tell you how much you know about presidential food.

"Food is an important part of a balanced diet." -- Fran Lebowitz

Nailbiter

"Fingers of Steel" chronicles the gnarly world of finger skateboarding with phenomenal filming to bring you all its flips and tricks.

And how much art can you fit on on Oreo? A lot, it seems.

"I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another." -- Al Oerter

Dark forces

Harness the power of static electricity to levitate objects, bend water, and other fun tricks that may get you burned at the stake.

And why spend all that dough on a pair of Nike HyperAdapt when you can make your own self-lacing shoes with -- you guessed it -- Legos.

"Science does not know its debt to imagination." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flipoholic

Unstoppable loony hamster does backflip after backflip for no apparent reason while his friends pay him no mind.

And whatever he's thinking might be explained in this video from The School of Life about the German knack for coming up with nifty-isms that condense a hard-to-pin-down feeling into a single word.

"I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain." -- Jane Wagner

Winter wonder walk

Check out how you can trek across the crystal-clear transparent ice on Lake Silvaplana in Switzerland and see all the way through to the lakebed.

And this is quite a sight -- a man with small dogs in his pockets out for a walk with his duck, which by the way is wearing shoes. (The man is wearing flip-flops.)

Huh. Man with dogs in his pockets walking his duck, which has shoes on pic.twitter.com/DnMC01JNvX

— Santero (@djsantero) February 2, 2017

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Workaround

Guy rushes to open gate for firefighters as wind rises a forest fire in Chile

Frantic man battles valiantly to break through a padlocked gate, but firefighters somehow manage to find another way to get past it. Kind of reminiscent of this blocking measure...



And things that a bird, a plane and Superman have in common, combined into a handy chart courtesy of your friends at xkcd.

"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun." -- Katharine Hepburn

Gifception

Slightly mindbending, this guy recursively made a flip book of a GIF of him flipping through a GIF that he printed into a flip book. Watch and it will make more sense. [Gizmodo]

And strange dreaming at the supermarket, courtesy of running a video through Deep Dream, Google's neural net that generates algorithmic pareidolia in the form of weird creatures. Soon to be a feature of the new version of Google Glass.

"Be obscure clearly." -- E. B. White

Duel purpose

Not a scene from @HarryPotterFilm: Two guys launch firework fight during the Spring Festival pic.twitter.com/mJqye2QoxV

— People's Daily,China (@PDChina) January 31, 2017

Mortars at midnight, just a couple of guys celebrating Chinese New Year with a Harry Potter-like fireworks fight in the middle of an empty street.

And the grand finale of man + sodium metal vs. toilet is likewise impressively explosive.

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction." -- Douglas MacArthur