Awesome Etc

Another work week’s over. While some people just have to get down on Friday, we know many of simply want to lie down and pass out, just like Maru here after a day spent playing.

Ever wanted to know what it looked like from the point of view of a bottle rocket? In preparation for this weekend’s Independence Day festivities, let’s go for a ride-along with some fireworks and see.

While Transformers: Dark of the Moon won’t be winning any Oscars for its plot, you still have to admire the work of the guys who create the cacophonous sounds throughout the film.

What if after FOXHOUND was disbanded, Solid Snake decided to enter a more normal profession instead of joining Philanthrophy? Apparently the result would be Metal Gear Solid meets The Office.

Artist (or so she says) Charlotte Young does an oral equivalent of the Arty Bollocks Generator, mocking herself and all other pretentious bastards who butter up the truth with shallow verbiage.

(NSFW: Language & Content) CollegeHumor points out one of the most sexist aspects of a lot of geeky media, from fantasy books to video games – female armor are nothing but glorified underwear.

Directors Tuomas Vauhkonen and Jeremias Nieminen take us on a visually and aurally compelling journey to a Lahti, Finland for a little visit with the local police force.

YouTuber Brusspup built a 7+ foot-tall Jenga tower, then lowered his iPod inside to capture the view from the inside – before letting it all crash to the ground. A simple trick for an unusual perspective.

The classic lobby gun fight sequence from The Matrix gets its sounds effects replaced by a single dude, making noises with his mouth. A little silly, but Matt Mulholland gets an ‘A’ for effort.

(Warning: Loud Audio) Somebody forgot to tell this guy that you’re not supposed to take your Segway through the car wash. Shampooing your head with brushes and hot wax looks awfully painful.

(NSFW: Language) An efficient way of dealing with the people who give you grief. This notepad has a pretty comprehensive checklist of complaints, from laziness to mooching to being creepy.

Check yourself before you wreck yourself. Slip on the Stress Beater and give it your best squeeze. It may look like a set of menacing brass knuckles, but it’s actually a rubber stress reliever.

Patrick Warburton prepares us for a safe ride on Zero Gravity Gulch, the rootinest, tootinest, gosh-darn good time of a roller coaster East (or is it West?) of the Mississippi.

File this under the “why didn’t we think of this?” By combining the pop-top with the bottle cap, designer Gonglue Jiang eliminates the need for bottle openers. Of course, there is always the twist-off.

We’ve seen plenty of first pitches thrown out at baseball games, but never with the style and grace of Cirque du Soleil Kà performer Gabryel Nogueira da Silva, at a recent Padres-Royals matchup.

The latest version of Apple’s media editing software has been panned by hardcore users. But not Conan’s video editors. They’re in love with it. In fact they made this video using Final Cut Pro X.

After watching this ten second clip of this sleepy feline, we can’t help but wonder if anyone else besides us out there is envious of how easy this furry guy makes it seem to fall asleep?

Electronic test tools maker Fluke Corporation commissioned this video (shot with a Phantom HD Gold camera) to better show one of the parameters that the company’s products measure – vibrations.

This severe flooding may have brought traffic to a standstill, but that didn’t stop this bus driver and his balls of steel from continuing to run his route on time. Hope the passengers had swim trunks.

A fan film that pays homage to the late Dave Stevens, who, in creating The Rocketeer gave form to the childhood dream of little boys around the world: find a rocket-pack and become a superhero.

(NSFW: Language) Daniel Craig is a pretty badass cowboy, but he’s got nothing on The Man With No Name, who doesn’t need a wrist-thingamajig to send those blasted extraterrestrials to hell.

All of your life you probably thought of koalas as kind and gentle creatures meant for hugging. Wrong. Watch as these deceptive eucalyptus fiends reveal their true, darker nature.

This little boy is so flexible that he can Limbo – on rollerskates – under cars. And here we thought this guy was limber. The insanity continues here. We need to start taking up yoga after watching that.