Old Spice follows up on its totally wacked out Mom Song with a tune by FotC’s Bret McKenzie about a little boy growing up to be a man because he used scented body sprays. Dad seems a lot happier that Junior has grown up than Mom does.

Ever needed to cut a piece of rope or string, but didn’t have an scissors or a knife on hand? Lifehacker DaveHax shows a brilliantly simple technique that lets you cut through stringy stuff – with itself.

Inspired by 19th c. recipe, Slow & Low starts out with straight rye whiskey, then introduces orange peel, raw honey and horehound, resulting in a perfectly balanced, slightly sweet cocktail with a wondrous fragrance. Just pour and enjoy.

Mental Floss explains the origins of some last names. Many are hilariously direct. Your last name is Hill? Then your ancestors lived on a hill. Then there are the sons. Makes you wonder why there are no sonsons. And sonsonsons. And…

“Iron from ice.” In this point-and-click Game of Thrones adventure, you’ll get to play as five members of House Forrester and interact with the series’ characters, many of them voiced by their respective actors in the TV show.

Unless you need to move quickly between construction sites, we can see no practical reason to build a backhoe that can drive 73mph. But that didn’t stop JCB from proving it could be done, with pro driver Matthew Lucas at its controls.

Invented by Peter Goncalves and the Quirky community, the PowerShell is a power strip that doubles as a lamp. It has six LEDs, three outlets, a thick and durable 8ft. power cord and a built-in handle.

DIY site Handimania shows off a fun and simple way to take the outline of your hand and turn it into a simulated 3-dimensional image. We suppose this would work with your foot too if you can bend over to reach it.

Secret Cinema turned part of London into Hill Valley for its time-traveling Back to the Future screening. The screening itself was accompanied by live action scene reenactments. The show will be coming to Los Angeles in 2015.

“Im picking up strong hints of coffee.” Conan O’Brien takes his associate producer and snotty robot Jordan Schlansky to a popular coffee shop chain to sample coffee. Conan ended up horrifying the staff and Jordan got rekt.

If Belle & Sebastian make sad bastard music, John Wesley Coleman III makes drunk bastard music. Love Drinks is from the self-proclaimed trash poet’s new EP The Love That You Own. His mixtape is worth crying along to as well.

The ladies of Saturday Night Live rap about one of their favorite holiday pastimes – visiting their parents and livin’ large under Mom and Dad’s roof once again. Really, what is it with Moms and their obsession with putting out bowls full of things?

“His face is like a brick wall! A brick wall that feels pain and cries a lot.” A hilariously painful comedy sketch from Studio C in which a soccer goalkeeper manages to stop each and every penalty shot kicked his way… with his face.

The newest version of Sony’s 24.3MP full-frame mirrorless camera adds 5-axis optical image stabilization for both still images and video. The α7 II also has up to 30% faster autofocus than the α7. Hits Japan & Europe 1/2015. U.S. TBD.

If there’s one thing that you never really want to do, it’s drive your car underneath a big rig. But that’s exactly what EMC and the Lotus F1 Team did, as they jumped a semi tractor trailer right over a moving F1 racer. BTS footage here.

An Android media stick that plugs in between your cable box and HDTV. Switch between live TV and digital content by snapping, clapping, whistling or by shaking your phone. A small window shows live TV when you’re on Playmute.

“They chose me because I’m more handsome than their real CEO.” Norweigan bank Nordnet’s metafictional commercial pokes fun at banking commercials. Imagine if they hired Archer instead. Norway. Norway! Norwaaaay!!!

Lauren O’Brien makes the most out of being stuck in traffic by impersonating celebrities. She nails Angelina Jolie’s look without any makeup or costume, mimics Taylor Swift without singing and mocks Kristen Stewart without talking.

A couple of years back, John Collins broke the world’s record for the longest paper airplane flight. Earlier this year, John revealed how to make the same sort of plane for ourselves. Now, just try to break his 226 foot world record flight.

Magnetic boards made from planks and poles found along European and West Asian beaches, as indicated by the geographical coordinates branded on each board. Each board even comes with a photo taken when it was found.

Floyd’s flagship detachable table legs are ideal for making small to medium tables. Now the company has the Floyd Utility Set for larger surfaces. The 29.5″ legs have rubber feet and are reinforced with adjustable cross-bracing straps.

Nope, this isn’t another Star Wars video clip. Freddie Wong runs into Jimmy Kimmel in the men’s room, and get into an argument about who knows how to tie a tie better. Things escalate quickly from there.

This handheld gadget from Feiyu lets you shoot professional quality smooth video with your GoPro Hero 2, 3 or 4 action camera. It uses three motors and gyroscopic sensors to continually stabilize your shots like a real Steadicam.