Awesome Etc

We all know that cats can see way better in the dark than we can. Perhaps that’s why this kitteh prefers to have the lights turned off, despite its human’s best efforts to shine a light on things.

(NSFW) Thanks (or no thanks) to Twitter, us common folk can talk directly to celebrities. Jimmy Kimmel had a bunch of actors read the horrible tweets about them. People can be so nasty.

The Hunger Games Board Game is the most enjoyable way for girls to learn more about two of the most intimidating phases of adolescence: dating and fighting to the death. Wait what?

We already know how Chuck would handle Angry Birds, now see how he makes quick work of Inky, Blinky, Pinky, Clyde and rocks their world, freeing them from their maze/prison in the process.

DeviantART member paperbeatsscissors matches characters from comics, videogames and cartoons and captions them with the sympathetic meme. Can you guess all the character connections?

A POV montage of Crazy Horst catching his RC plane in different locations, some of them beautiful scenery, others chosen for the challenge. Props for including a blooper reel at the end.

Help Don Draper regain his confidence in this tongue-in-cheek point and click YouTube game by The Fine Bros. It’s made of more than 40 videos and has 3 endings. The music is by Doctor Octoroc.

Gamers rejoice, this project is coming closer to life: 100 Yen: The Japanese Arcade Experience, Brad Crawford’s historical documentary about the evolution and culture of Japanese arcades.

When he wasn’t declaring independence or discovering electricity (or not), Ben Franklin wrote. He even assembled a list of 220 ways to describe a drunk. Our fave: “his head is full of bees.”

Alex Rivest assembled publicly available videos and images gathered by the NASA Johnson Space Center to create this time-lapse video showing the lights both above and on our planet.

The TekRMD robotic mobilization device aims to revolutionize mobility for paraplegics, enabling them to not only to expand their horizons, but to be able to stand up and sit down without assistance.

Walk Off the Earth performs Little Boxes using instruments made from boxes. It’s not as novel as their first cover, but we’re not going to pass up a chance to see Captain Haddock’s doppelgänger.

Cats will be cats, and sometimes they just need to work things out. But there are times when claws and paws aren’t enough, and they require some bigger weapons. Here, these should do the trick.

A documentary by Doug Nichol about John Benet, an American ad man working in Shanghai, whose empty gaze betrays the price of his lucrative job. A bit like Lost in Translation meets Mad Men.

Saturn’s rings are beautiful – at least from a distance. But did you ever wonder what the Earth would look like if it had rings? Roy Prol decided to show us. Reminds us of Halo for some reason.

Think you’ve got it hard when you do pushups at the gym? Get a proper schooling from Xie Guizhong as he breaks the record for most single-finger pushups in a 30 second period: Forty-one.

(NSFW: Language) Writer and director Shawn Wines imagines how a first date would end if both parties were to be totally honest with each other. The result? Sheldon and Amy, but with sex.

The Escort Daggers are made of nothing but carbon fiber, making them very lightweight. They’re not as good as steel knives when it comes to cutting, rather they’re made for stabbing (for self-defense).

YouTuber Paolody combined Jason Yang’s violin cover with Roger Lima’s rockin’ rendition of Ramin Djawadi’s stellar Game of Thrones opening theme to create this awesome mega-mix.

Two year-old William Stokkebroe is the son of dancesport champions, but for now he only has a peculiar style, which we’re calling The Drunken Grandpa. At least he’s got mad stage presence.

Designer Chris Myles made this kick-ass replica of the Omni Tool used by Shepard and the other characters in the Mass Effect universe. It’s made of sheet acrylic and has a swing out Omni Blade.

Nathan Barnatt’s alter-ego Keith Apicary can’t stand pretty boy pro-wrestler Dolph Ziggler. Keith’s got the skills, and is ready to take him on. He won World Rumble 13 times (on Sega Genesis) after all.

Whether you think it looks awesome or awesomely bad, we still want to play Kinect Star Wars – if only to stomp around as a Rancor so we can crush Jake Lloyd and Jar Jar in Mos Eisley.