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A video documenting daily life in Afghanistan by Augustin Pictures. It’s an enlightening – and necessary –  counterpoint to the scenes of war, drugs and poverty that we see in the news.

While dubstep might not be everyone’s favorite musical genre, you have to hand it to beatboxer David Crowe for his vocal talents, as he pulls off this incredible live performance.

Despite the fact that cats can occasionally be trained like dogs, most of the time they’re way too stubborn and self-centered to do the bidding of us humans. There’s a reason you don’t walk cats.

A while back, Peter Clute dug deep within his warped mind to create his Buzz Lightyear x T-800 mashup. Guess Woody was feeling left out, so he became one with the machines too.

Everyone’s favorite fully-loaded Russian whips out the big guns, with a car-mounted 50 cal. Dragon M-50 automatic, loaded with explosive ammo. We feel sorry for that tree, though.

A man encounters a demonic spirit on a train and does his best to send it back to where it came from. A wonderfully animated, if slightly twisted one-minute short film from Giant Creative.

Surfing off the coast of Santa Cruz, California, a woman comes dangerously close to becoming an accidental whale Happy Meal, as a pod of humpbacks start lunge feeding for fish.

If you thought Siri had problems understanding a Japanese accent, well, you might as well give up on the idea of her making sense out of Furbish. This is how Skynet was born, you know.

No, we haven’t seen Evelyn, but we have seen this music video for Evelyn Evelyn’s single, and it is a perfect fit for the song. Hoku Uchiyama’s animation is clever and looks so natural.

(Gore) It’s Exorcist meets Desperado in this award-winning horror flick by Nerdhaus Films. If you liked Welcome to Hoxford, you’ll love Deus Irae. We want to see a full-length version!

We’re a little late to the party, but here’s the music video for Midnight City, the single from M83’s latest album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. Also available in double CD and vinyl formats. Must buy.

(NSFW: Language) Joel Bukiewicz is the owner and operator of Cut Brooklyn, a lucky and talented man who makes a living doing something he loves. From the new, awesome web series Made by Hand.

We don’t know where this guy got the idea to tape pieces of lettuce together and punch holes in them so they could be used to play Paranoid Android, but this is the Internet, so we’ve stopped asking.

Behold the magic, beauty and poetry that nature surrounds us all with in this video, which shows a chance encounter and shared moment between two humans and a collection of starlings. (Thanks Raz!)

Saxton Hale would approve of these versatile thank you cards. Just in time for the coming gift-receiving – okay, and giving – season. Show people just how grateful you are, i.e. not so much.

Jimmy Kimmel has a cruel sense of humor, asking asked parents to tell their kids that they ate all of their Halloween candy and video their reactions. Thankfully, none of the kids had weapons.

Do you constantly put things off until tomorrow? Then watch this brief typographic animation for a little explanation – and advice – on procrastination. Watch now, and don’t bookmark it for later.

Conan O’Brien says you can get Chinese food anywhere in NYC in 5 minutes. But with Conan himself taking on role of King Wok delivery man, we wouldn’t count on it showing up any time soon.

(NSFW) On one hand, we have this awesome cover of Chris Brown’s song Look at Me Now. On the other hand, we have this awesome video based on Chris Brown’s Look at Me Now. RIP Big Wayne.

We’ve seen the PIT maneuver used on a thousand episodes of COPS before, but we can honestly say that this is the first time we’ve seen the police stop an airplane by smashing into it.

YouTuber Slacktory feeds Siri a special cookie and lets her ramble and like, say what’s really on her mind, man. It’s obviously fake, but dude, she’s right about that hurricane naming scheme.

Corey Thomas is working on a Kinect-based voice-assisted control interface for PCs. So far it can open programs and websites, play media and shut itself down. And it speaks with GLaDOS’ voice.

Rip Curl teamed up with TimeSlice Films to capture “full-tilt surfing action” similar to the bullet time scenes from The Matrix. The effect was achieved by using an array of 30 GoPro HD cameras .