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SpaceX: Falling Back to Earth

SpaceX: Falling Back to Earth

SpaceX shares this brief GoPro footage of the Falcon 9 rocket twirling in space as it descends back to Earth after a test flight, capturing the sun and our planet in the process, set to the Blue Danube waltz – a nod to 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Breaking Sponge

Breaking Sponge

An amusing mashup of scenes from Breaking Bad, with animation from SpongeBob Squarepants by YouTuber RunningFlannel. Without benefit of the original imagery, we are yet again reminded just how brilliant Bryan Cranston was.

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Disney Animation Short Films

Disney Animation Short Films

Disney offers up a collection of a dozen of its finest short animated films, including Academy Award winners Paperman and Feast, along with behind the scenes interviews with their creators.

LWT: A Disgusting Promise Fulfilled

LWT: A Disgusting Promise Fulfilled

Shady FIFA President Sepp Blatter resigned on 6/2/15 – a day after John Oliver pledged to consume the products of US FIFA sponsors if they helped oust Blatter. Coincidence? John doesn’t know, but he’s a man of his word.

Duck Game

Duck Game

Adult Swim continues its winning streak of publishing wacky and fun games. Duck Game is a retro 2D multiplayer shooter with lots of hats and even more weapons. Think Smash Bros, but with ducks. And shenanigans.

Leaping Leopard!

Leaping Leopard!

Kaba, a snow leopard in captivity at the Seneca Park Zoo shows off his instinctive desire to hunt for his prey as he takes a flying leap towards his lunch – a hunk of meat dangling from the ceiling. We would not want to be this cat’s zookeeper.

Goblin Deuce

Goblin Deuce

The Goblin Deuce is a stylish double-barreled airsoft and paintball gun. It can fire 12BB pellets or one paintball pellet per shell. It has a safety switch and single and double firing modes. Thumbnail image via DudeIWantThat.

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Lazy Corgi

Lazy Corgi

We’ve seen a cat who figured out how to drink while lying down. YouTube chrwaa’s portly corgi on the other hand figured out how to play fetch while lying down. The secret? Imagination.

John Waters 2015 RISD Speech

John Waters 2015 RISD Speech

(PG-13 Language) “It’s time to cause trouble… and this time, from the inside.” Risqué artist John Waters told the 2015 RISD graduates to not just be creative, but to infiltrate established institutions and revolutionize them from within.

London Underground by Drone

London Underground by Drone

Truly mesmerizing time-lapse footage captured on foot and via a drone flying through London’s Crossrail project, in which a crew of over 10,000 excavated 26 miles of underground railway tunnels beneath London, England.

Lavish Handcrafted Brain Soap

Lavish Handcrafted Brain Soap
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A more affordable and realistic-looking alternative to the Abby Normal brain soap. Each soap weighs 1.1oz and is made from glycerin with buttercream and snickerdoodle fragrance. Also available in larger packs.

LWT: Bail

LWT: Bail

(PG-13 Language) John Oliver looks at the arguably unconstitutional U.S. bail system, where courts often set bail amounts that defendants can’t afford. This leads to harmless people going to jail or turning to sketchy bail bondsmen.

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Everest (Trailer)

Everest (Trailer)

Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Jason Clarke, Kiera Knightley, John Hawkes and Sam Worthington star in this movie based on Into Thin Air, an account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster by journalist and mountaineer Jon Krakauer.

The Voices of Scooby Doo

The Voices of Scooby Doo

A great bit of footage from a 2001 documentary featuring interviews with the actors behind the voices of the Hannah-Barbera cartoon classic Scooby Doo and Dinomutt. Could you imagine Shaggy and Fred’s voices being reversed?

Ferruccio Carbon Fiber Sunglasses

Ferruccio Carbon Fiber Sunglasses
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Made from real carbon fiber handcrafted in Italy, these sunglasses are as functional as they are stylish. The arms are attached with rose gold spring hinges, and the dark lenses are unpolarized so as not to affect viewing of LCD screens.

Action Henk

Action Henk

A Sonic the Hedgehog style platformer coming to PS3, PS4 and PS Vita, in which action figures run, jump and butt-slide through complicated courses made of toys and other everyday objects. It’s already available for PC and Mac on Steam.

Robots Falling Down

Robots Falling Down

While the DARPA Robotics Challenge is a showcase for cutting-edge tech, not everything always goes according to plan. Here’s a comical reel from IEEE Spectrum of some of this year’s entrants in their more humbling moments.

Fast Laser Etching

Fast Laser Etching

Watch an incredibly detailed work of art emerge from a sheet of metal at LasX Industries Inc. as it’s burned using an impressively quick computer-guided laser beam. The sound it makes is nearly as satisfying as the visuals.

The Martian (Trailer)

The Martian (Trailer)

Ridley Scott and Drew Goddard’s adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel. In The Martian, astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is left stranded on the red planet, and must survive on his own. Yep, it’s Castaway in space. Meet the crew here.

The Enginemobile

The Enginemobile

We’re not entirely sure of the purpose of this thing, since it’s basically just a massive Rolls Royce V12 tank engine without a drivetrain, but the red-hot, flame-spitting exhaust pipes are eye and ear candy for any gearhead.

Glukos Energy Products

Glukos Energy Products

The bar for sports nutrition has been raised with the GLUKOS line of energy products. Made without sucrose or fructose, the not-too-sweet goods provide a natural boost of energy in half the time of harsh sports drinks. Available here.

Pikachu Rave

Pikachu Rave

We’re equally perplexed and enthralled by this video of a plethora of Pikachu dancing at a rave in what amounts to the most satisfying costumed choreography we’ve seen since Left Shark appeared at the Super Bowl.

Artya Son of a Gun Watches

Artya Son of a Gun Watches
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While rumor has it that the TSA won’t let you through security with Yvan Arpa’s precision Swiss timepieces, they’re still pretty awesome, with components made from real bullets. In stainless, PVD, technical resin or 18K gold.

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