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Begging on the Sly

Begging on the Sly

Anthony Jones’ title for his video says it all: “My dog likes to look at me while I eat, until I catch him and he looks away from me.” But we wouldn’t be surprised if his buddy’s actually wondering what on earth the room’s theme is supposed to be.

CBS Horse Race 1979

CBS Horse Race 1979

Stephen Colbert is pulling up The Late Show‘s ratings with his coverage of the US Presidential race. But we’re glad that once in a while the show throws out a curveball, like this “archived footage” of a horse race.

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Bad Doors Are Everywhere

Bad Doors Are Everywhere

Vox and 99% Invisible spoke to human-centered design advocate Don Norman about poorly designed everyday objects such as doors. In summary, we should all be able to tell how a commonly used object works through its form, not through an instruction or a sign.

Junior Boys: Big Black Coat

Junior Boys: Big Black Coat

(Flashing images) The title track from the new album of Canadian technopop duo Junior Boys. The music video for Big Black Coat features industrial glitch art that perfectly complements the song’s smooth buildup.

Mister Rocker’s Neighborhood

Mister Rocker’s Neighborhood

Please won’t you be our neighbor? Musician 331Erock puts on his comfy cardigan, takes off his loafers, and turns the classic childhood theme song from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood into a rock tune.

7:35 in the Morning

7:35 in the Morning

Before thrilling us with his sci-fi movies Timecrimes and Extraterrestrial, writer and director Nacho Vigalondo showed off his mastery at combining the mundane and the surreal in this short film that elevates what would otherwise be a cheesy rom com scene.

Kimmel’s Batman v Superman Scene

Kimmel’s Batman v Superman Scene

Ben Affleck dropped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! to share the talk show host’s deleted scene from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Or not. The skit goes on for way too long, but we can’t help but be grateful that this even exists.

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Diamond Spam

Diamond Spam

After his encounter with the gold spammer, comedian James Veitch spun off his troll trolling into an online series on Mashable’s YouTube channel. His latest victim is “an army intelligent” who offered him a ton of diamonds.

The Marble Race

The Marble Race

Cars, motorcycles, boats, bikes, runners. We love to watch all manner of races. But we never thought a race between a bunch of marbles could be exciting. Marble fanatic Jelle Bakker set off this surprisingly compelling race across a 750 foot-long course carved from sand.

Leo Wins an Oscar

Leo Wins an Oscar

While The Flippist’s short flipbook animation of Leonardo DiCaprio came out before he actually won the Best Actor Academy Award for The Revenant, that doesn’t make it any less hilarious. Buy the original flipbook on eBay, with proceeds going to Leo’s charity.

Chris Rock 2016 Oscars Opener

Chris Rock 2016 Oscars Opener

“There’s no real reason for there to be a man and a woman category in acting. Come on!” Chris Rock’s opening monologue at the 2016 Academy Awards went down just as you’d expect: with lots of sharp digs at racism, punctuated by soft claps and awkward silences.

Stop Robot Cruelty

Stop Robot Cruelty

YouTuber Greg Killian put together clips of robots being stress tested or used in gladiatorial combat in this hilarious – yet still heartbreaking! – parody of ASPCA commercials. “In the arms of the angel…”

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Closet Space

Closet Space

A woman discovers that their new place has an incredibly peculiar closet. Anything she puts in there gets doubled when she re-opens its door. Lotta Losten and her husband David Sandberg made this awesomely minimal and taut short film in their new home.

A Brief History of Manners

A Brief History of Manners

(PG-13) “There is a fine line between being natural about things, and being bothersome to others.” The School of Life looks at some in the milestones of the Western world’s continuously evolving rules of propriety. We hope they do one from the Eastern perspective as well.

Lesley

Lesley

(PG-13: Language) A young and small-time actor intends to unwind in the forest, but his job and his peers dominate his time and thoughts. Arnab Chanda’s character fared better than we would in Craig Ainsley’s pragmatic take on Man vs. Wild.

I Love Box

I Love Box

“Where is Box? I love Box.” Boston Dynamics really hit a nerve with its latest demo video of its Atlas robot. We know it’s all a test, but we can’t help but feel for the guy – er, bot. Auralnauts turns the tables around in this horrifying parody.

The Toilet Paper and Ice Sword

The Toilet Paper and Ice Sword

We’ve seen lots of fancy “making of” videos from blacksmiths making awesome metal weapons. But it turns out that with a mix of frozen water and layered toilet paper, you can make a sword that can also smash helpless fruits – at least until the sun melts it.

Ramen: You’re Eating It Wrong

Ramen: You’re Eating It Wrong

You might think you know how to eat ramen, but this lesson from noodle expert Ivan Orkin of New York’s Ivan Ramen will set you straight on the truth. Bottom line: Don’t delay, slurp away, and have fun, folks!

What Unobtainium Really Means

What Unobtainium Really Means

Many people derided Avatar‘s use of “Unobtainium” as a name for a rare mineral. But the word actually exists in real life, a humorous term coined by engineers for rare or non-existent materials. Which means the movie actually made good use of it.

The Walking Dead x Terminator

The Walking Dead x Terminator

Jason Yang performs a spot-on violin and keyboard medley of two themes which should be immediately familiar to fans of horror and sci-fi – Bear McCreary’s The Walking Dead, and Brad Fiedel’s The Terminator. You got your undead peanut butter in my cyborg chocolate!

Infrastructure Observatory

Infrastructure Observatory

In 2012, just for the heck of it, Tim Hwang fooled a nuclear plant into giving him a tour by setting up a fake organization called Infrastructure Observatory. Tim eventually turned it into a real group that organizes tours for his fellow infrastructure enthusiasts.

We Are the World Face Swap

We Are the World Face Swap

Rhett LeCompte decided to replace his face with the various celebrity performers from the 1985 charity music classic We Are the World, courtesy of Face Swap Live. The results are both hilarious and disturbing.

Hack Attack

Hack Attack

“I am you right now, if I wanted to be.” Fusion writer Kevin Roose asked white hat hackers and computer security professionals to hack him. For common folk like us, the simplest of tricks – pretending to be someone or something else – is the one thing we should all look out for.

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