Damaged good

This expensive fails compilation of people accidentally losing or destroying stuff might make you feel just a little bit better about your day, if that's your kind of thing.


Meanwhile downriver... deliberately detonating dynamite in a delta makes for a cool effect, no CGI required.

"I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones." -- John Peel

Alter egos

Infant meets his new American god in the form of a smartphone, which exudes the power of instant pacification, else rage when taken away. (Warning: Contains some intense baby-crying noises.)

And the images you get from the likes of Shutterstock or Getty are typically cheesy, staged photos featuring generic-looking people pretending to do generic stuff. But take note -- there's also a dark side of stock photography...

"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens." -- Khalil Gibran

Life is a balancing act

Watch what you can build with 200 coins, a steady hand, and nerves of steel.


ATLAS the humanoid robot is an incredible sophisticated machine, but you'll probably find some humor in him autonomously falling off a stage (at around the 04:00 mark). Get your laughs in now before he and his like become sentient.




And nevermind work-life balance, artist Roman Opałka spent his career painting from 1 to 5607249 (trying to get to infinity).

"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours." -- Dag Hammarskjold

With a flourish

Ded. pic.twitter.com/megUmNqFVd

— Kevin Fox 🦊 (@kfury) August 2, 2017

Cool kitty gives smoother high-fives than most humans.


And no one likes a show-off... check this show-off-ish beer league softball at-bat. (Thanks Mr. G)

"When ambition ends, happiness begins." -- Thomas Merton

Brickfast

Three days and 1,500 still images to create, the most important meal of the day prepared LEGO style.

Wondering how safe your tap water is? Well EWG has a site where you can enter your ZIP code to see all the chemical and heavy metal contaminants in your drinking water. (They've compiled data for all 50 states, and it's much simpler than the EPA's clunky site.)

And if you've ever tried, it's no easy feat to throw away a garbage can.

"I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast anytime'. So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance." -- Steven Wright

Least resistance

Two young women puttering along in the waterslide slow lane get slammed by a human torpedo.


And it might be ill-advised to drop in on a metal slide from 10 feet high.

0 - 100 real quick!🤘🏽 Thanks for filming @rainerkleive 🙂

A post shared by Benjamin Forthun (@benjaminforthun) on Jul 21, 2017 at 9:56am PDT

"Summer has set in with its usual severity." -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Race to the bottom

Humorous short clip called The Shipping gives a glimpse of where things might be going in the race for faster home delivery.


And which squares will fill with fluid first?





Finally, 100 movies 100 numbers 100 seconds seems kind of ridiculous at first, but...

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." -- Oscar Wilde

Keep count

Like a real-life clown car, watch as nine people jump out of this unexpectedly capacious Honda Civic after an accident.


And how many circles do you see in the Coffer Illusion, from this a trio of optical illusions over at Relatively Interesting?

"Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life." -- Simone Weil

Whenceforth

600 million years of human evolution in a flipbook from educationalgifs

Check out this flipbook animation of 600 million years of human evolution, available from the EVO evolution webshop. Though I'm not sure why it goes in reverse.

And if this AI movie-poster generator is any indication, we don't yet have much to worry about from Skynet.

"Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire." -- Robert Brault

Shattered expectations

Security cam footage from the Colorado office of Argonics, Inc. shows that its break-in was actually just a vandal goat doing a disorderly deed.


And on the topic, is this a ridiculously photogenic goat or what?

Today I met a ridiculously photogenic goat. from pics

"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived." -- Abraham Lincoln

Upstanding effort

Construction workers prank a colleague at the job site... "Hey, let's kick field goals with these pieces of copper pipe."

Wait for it

And is this the best-ever custom toilet installation?

"You can only trust yourself... and barely that." -- Paige Wilson

Keeping the peace

Sledgehammer-wielding robbers thwarted by tough glass in attempted jewelry store smash-and-grab.


Poised veteran cop calmly keeps his cool dealing with a roadside d-bag, handling the stop with aplomb. (Note: copious profanity.)




And how the heck did smugglers get bags of pills inside these apparently uncut onions?

"It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any." -- Mae West

Goings on about town

Strange enough that this car driving down the street gets hit by lightning or zapped by a UFO, but then it gets really bizarre and eerie when the swarms of zombies dressed in black arrive out of nowhere.

And that solar eclipse everyone is making such a big deal about is almost upon us. Here's what you'll see where you live.

From Why (AZ) to Whynot (NC), some top funny town names in all 50 states.

"Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light." -- Norman B. Rice

OSHA-it

Scary scene with a rope of molten metal barely missing a man working on the steel mill floor.


And a roundup of delightfully dark clever cartoons from Russian artist Gudim. (If you enjoy his work, check out his Facebook and Instagram.)

"Safety doesn't happen by accident." -- Standard Oil Company of California

The hurt locker

Pet bird opens a box and immediately regrets it, but has the last word.

Detained for assault from youseeingthisshit

And why not try this elegant "F.U." pinstripe suit on for size. (At over six grand, it'll take sorta like "F.U. money" to buy it.)

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." -- John Powell

Have it your way

For reasons unknown, someone created this "historically accurate" Burger King animation short, maybe just in case you didn't think he was creepy enough before.

And see the detailed racial makeup of basically every neighborhood in the U.S. with this map created by astrophysicist Tomasz Stepinski.

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." -- Confucius

Fashioning form

Don't try to understand it, but MAKIN' MOVES is a breathtaking run of dancing, swimming, flying, and morphing all rolled into one.


Nagato Iwasaki combs the beach looking for driftwood he can use to create these beautiful human form sculptures.



Can you name all 26 bands whose fonts were used to make this Alphabet of Rock?

"Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable." -- Kenyan Proverb

Leisure pursuits

Fascinating, I think, that this swan's hobby is gardening.


And likely the fifth most famous in history, this beetle is an artist. (I suppose it's true because one of his works sold on eBay.)

he's back, and improving his form.
good luck! pic.twitter.com/6v0CpdJVQP

— Spike the Beetle (@SpikeTheBeetle) July 4, 2017

"Gardening requires lots of water — most of it in the form of perspiration." -- Lou Erickson