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Did you stand in line for 5 days for an iPhone 5? Still waiting for your delivery to show up? Then cringe at the wanton destruction of Apple’s latest wonderphone courtesy of the guys at RatedRR.

A follow-up to JamaicanBaconify’s hilarious Gif Sound Compilation, continues the tradition of adding appropriate (and inappropriate sounds) to animated .gifs. Game of Thrones cat, FTW!

Bad Lip Reading takes on The Hunger Games.  Movie companies should have a bad lip read version as a bonus feature in their Blu-ray releases. Sales would go through the roof.

Behold: the power of marketing. Before the iPhone 5 came out, Jimmy Kimmel went to the streets to ask people what they thought about the new iPhone 5. Except they showed them the iPhone 4S.

We just added a fun new feature to the site, which lets you view a totally random post by simply hitting the “R” key on your keyboard. Also new: arrow key navigation between our main pages.

Is there any ride that people can’t do stunts in? Watch Kevin Kartchner, Colby Thomas and their friends pull off stunts that will make your shins and crotch cringe. The latest from Devin Supertramp.

Best known for his 1980s act highlighted by the smashing of watermelons, watch as comedian Gallagher is captured doing what he does in slow motion by a Phantom Miro camera. More here.

Geoff Mackley, Bradley Ambrose and Nathan Berg descended to the lava lake of the Marum volcano in Vanuatu, becoming the first people to ever come this close – about 98ft – to the scorching lake.

YouTuber Swoozie shares a shameful experience back when he was in 5th grade. His dad promised to buy him a TV for his room if he made the honor roll in school. Then French class happened.

John Neeman Tools is a small Latvian-based team that specializes in making woodworking tools and knives by hand. This video shows how they make an axe. The song is Holocene by Bon Iver.

Here’s another feline that must be in demand with parents. Although this time the cat isn’t really taking care of the baby so much as it’s cuddling the little human to submission.

With its wide, upswept axe blade, penetrating spike and paracord-wrapped reinforced handle, ThinkGeek’s lightweight ATT is a great tool to decapitate walkers. Bonus: karambit coming soon.

…and we mean that title literally. Either this elephant was offended that it was being watched, or it has a disgusting sense of humor. “Hello, I am an elephant, and this is jackass.”

Alcohol is one of the leading causes of death in Finland. This chilling Finnish commercial for Lasinen lapsuus (“Fragile childhood”) imagines how inebriated adults appear to their children.

The folks over at Vat19 continue their tradition of bringing all things gummy to market, with these gummy bears spiked with the same amount of caffeine and guarana as an energy drink.

A wonderful animated short that perfectly captures the proverb, “Home is where the heart is.” Made by 3rd year students at Gobelins. English translation of text and dialogue here.

While you could go out and buy yourself a fancy 3D printer, why not build one yourself? Builder Arthur Sacek did just that, with a 3D milling machine made entirely from LEGO (except the drill bit.)

Icon Motorsports sends a couple of its top riders on a global motorcycle odyssey to test out their latest in riding gear. At the end of the day, it’s a 30-minute commercial, but it’s still worth your time.

YouTuber enquaynay reimagined a classic scene in Portal 2, creating humanoid forms for Wheatley and GLaDOS with a Disney-like art style. She should’ve made Chell a robot just for kicks.

Dancer Yash Agrawai (aka “RoboPop“) takes on a tiny humanoid robot, and does his best to replicate all the moves of the little mechanical dude. Or is it the other way around? We’re not sure.

Mr. Wizard may have paved the way for kid-friendly educational shows, but Mike Schuster has lots of evidence proving that we can also pick up tips on sarcasm and trolling from the old man.

Buddhist monks spend days creating an intricate mandala using colored sands. Once complete, they destroy their masterwork in seconds, symbolizing the impermanence of life. More here.

LEGO fanatic Akiyuki has spent years working on complex mechanical LEGO builds, and his latest is a real doozie. The 100-foot-long machine serves no purpose but to shuttle around 500 tiny balls.