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So, we’re scratching our heads over here at TA while being entertained, wondering how Wax Audio’s Lady Gaga-Judas Priest mashup works. No, really, it’s all wrong. So why does this work?

Scottie Pippen recently said that LeBron James may become the greatest player ever. YouTuber lcmj23 makes a case for His Airness, juxtaposing pundits’ opinions with classic MJ moments.

A wild and trippy POV shot taken from a GoPro camera attached to the outside of a hula hoop. We’re still a little dizzy after watching the clip – and no, not from the girl’s asymmetrical hairdo.

This is without a doubt the world’s most pumped up and positive kid. He’s rallying for people who don’t know how to ride a bike, but his message is for all of us. And thumbs up for rock & roll!

The guy on the right has a handful of videos online showing him scaring people by having them ride shotgun while he drifts. In this video his passenger claims he’s familiar with drifting. Word?

Freddie Wong aces Skee Ball, races on two motorbikes at once and wins in that blasted coin dropping machine, proving that he’s great at something else other than special effects. Oh wait.

It’s WWDC week, so when we saw the title of this video, we thought it might be legit. It’s not. But that doesn’t make the magical new iPad features in this video any less fun.

Want to drive one of your pals really insane? Next time you’re in the locker room, sneak up behind him with a little extra shampoo, and let the wacky hijinks ensue. Now lather, rinse, repeat. Repeat.

Awesome People Hanging Out Together has star-studded pics and vids, some of them expected – Dylan and Cash – and others hilariously random. Col. Sanders and Alice Cooper ftw!

Finished just in time for the National Ice Cream Week, the HMS Flake 99 is the world’s first amphibious ice cream van. It will tour the beaches of the UK and the canals of Venice next year.

It’s all fun and games until you run out of ammo. That and then some. 3D Animator Scott Thierauf ended up making this funny animated short while learning to use a rendering program.

Scott, a dude inspired by Jonathan Crawford, has created a sick playable flamethrower trombone, made from plumbing, torch, and compressed air parts, with fire on demand. (Thanks Steve!)

Just because you’re a little kid doesn’t mean you can’t dream of the day you’ll be tearing down the road in a convertible Mustang, with a girl on your arm, drifting around cones. Actually, why wait?

Over the course of about a month, Photographer Josh Owens (aka “mindrelic”) shot this dizzying and dramatic time-lapse footage from various hotel balconies around New York City.

This… THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING. This fake trailer for a fake movie by Slick Gigolo reveals why all of the Star Wars prequels sucked – the real George Lucas was imprisoned for the last 20 years.

British rapper Dan Bull mashed up The Next Generation with The Next Episode, adding a flow into Lieutenant Commander Data’s recital of his Ode to Spot worthy of the Positronic Pimp.

(Spoiler Alert) What if the original Portal ended differently? A tired, paranoid and lazy Chell tries to start anew after managing to escape from Aperture’s Labs, in this fan film by Eisen Feuer.

The guys behind this brain-twisting video describe the clip as what might happen if the time-bending game Braid were a first-person shooter. Confused? Ask the creators your questions over on Reddit.

The Fine Brothers have amassed an amusing collection of opinions from kids in the latest installment of Kids React: this time the subject is the poptart cat that farts a rainbow, aka Nyan Cat.

Bunk the dog recently celebrated his second birthday. In celebration of the big day, his owners gave him a roomful of balloons and let him go to town… and Bunk + balloons = a poppin’ good time.

Luke Cage channels the Old Spice Guy while he’s at Avengers headquarters. Actually he is the Old Spice Guy, Isaiah Mustafa, who incidentally was in talks with Marvel to play Luke Cage in a movie.

Despite the seemingly ominous screen cap and title, this just might be the most adorable video you’ll see, er, hear all year, with fear, innocence, love and relief in spades. I’m coming Milesy!

(NSFW) Leonard Nimoy has lived long and prospered, now watch him act like a grouchy recluse and just be chillin’ like a Vulcan in the alternate music video for Bruno Mars’ Lazy Song.