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The world has lost a great innovator and a man who brought joy, insight, and knowledge to millions. This fitting video is for the man who taught us all to Think Differently. R.I.P., Steve Jobs.

What happens when you carefully interlace 1,000 wooden popsicle sticks, then flick just one of them? If you know what you’re doing – something pretty spectacular, as is evidenced by this video clip.

Check out this supercool functional Gears of War Lancer MK2 built by the Plumbrothers; it can shoot rubberbands and has a motorized chainsaw. The action in the vid begins at 1:30. (Thanks David!)

Good artists copy, great artists steal. We learn that yet again in this examination of the Wachowski’s 1999 classic The Matrix, which clearly found plenty of inspiration in many earlier films.

From YouTuber NinjaZ3R0 comes a Grand Theft Auto machinima featuring two detectives who go by their own one of the detectives’ own rules, resulting in either bad-ass stunts or bad-ass injuries.

Two Ninjas battle to the death in this awesomely tight bit of stop-motion animation by Olivier Trudeau. It’s short, but sweet, and ends with style (and a splash of blood).

Five minutes of fun: Rhett and Link play a goofy game of telephone with the YouTube captioning – not once, but twice – in their latest skit. We love how the computer interprets the word Ke$ha.

NPR’s Adam Cole and Robert Krulwich take us on a literary and historical tour as they sing a song about eponyms and whether or not it is a good or bad thing to become a noun. Go forth and Google.

Have trouble getting out of bed? Well you could just get a louder alarm clock, or maybe your own personal rooster, or you could do what this guy does, and risk spinal trauma every morning.

(NSFW: Language) Julien Mokrani’s adaptation of Welcome to Hoxford, a comic book mini-series about a delusional murderer sent to a correctional institution that has a terrible secret.

(NSFW: Language) FPS Russia is back with a variety of unusual, yet potent weapons, including the world’s most powerful handgun, a tube-shaped rifle and something that involves a bowling ball.

BadLipReading creates vids with well dubbed nonsensical word substitutions, like this one here of the President talking about peanut butter, whipping pintos and tricking the bridesmaid. (Thanks Zeee!)

This poor cat seems to be using the only English word it knows in an attempt to tell its owner to get his friend’s daughter away. And yes, stop right there, the Internet knows what you’re thinking.

Are you trapped in your room? Looking for a way out? Watch and learn from this 1979 Finnish instructional video. Still lost? Try turning on the captions for some extra assistance.

We’re usually too busy being distracted by Maru’s tomfoolery to appreciate his silky grey fur and big green eyes. That all changes with this loving, up-close look at the Internet’s favorite feline.

The music video for Portugal. The Man’s single Sleep Forever is a beautiful tour of the Alaskan wilderness and a haunting treatise on isolation rolled into one. Directed by Michael Ragen.

These strange videos chronicling the rough-and-tumble lives of a bushman and his loyal buffalo steed might be lost on us without the enlightening commentary provided by the The Possum Posse.

A group of guys in Moscow decide to take a motorcycle ride, and play a little concert while they head down the highway. We’d feel better if they were wearing helmets, though.

If you ever find yourself face-to-face with an horde of zombies without a shotgun, the Cold Steel Throwing Shovel is your weapon of choice. Modeled after an actual Soviet special forces weapon.

The trademark sounds of dubstep are typically achieved with electronic effects, but Pinn Panelle manages to reproduce the musical stylings of Skrillex with guitars, drum and bass (mostly).

This cool stop-motion film by animator Sarah Wickens was made using rays of reflected sunlight as the primary medium. We’ve never seen light grow fingernails before, though.

The Simpsons had another guest animator for its couch gag, John Kricfalusi, better known as the creator of Ren & Stimpy, proving that John K. just gets weirder with age.

World-famous beatboxer Darren Foreman aka BeardyMan wowed the Montreal Comedy Festival crowd with his impromptu mix of beatbox, stand-up comedy, reggae, country and classical music.