Awesome Etc

An otter at the San Diego Zoo gleefully matches a kid’s unending supply of energy. Son, the next time you visit, we ask this of you: try running away from the aquarium. Let’s see what happens then.

Now that we’ve seen this talented kid and his super rockin’ performance with a diabolo, what we suspected is confirmed: walking and chewing gum at the same time isn’t really a skill.

While not quite at the level of action figure stop motion master Patrick Boivin’s works, Kyle Roberts’ Battle of the Bonds is still a hoot to watch, if only for Sean Connery’s crude jokes.

To paraphrase one of his commenters, Andrew Huang’s latest effort is the playful twist of his musical alter ego Songs To Wear Pants To – this time he does Pants to Make Songs With.

There are green vehicles that are as fast and sexy as gas-fed ones, and we wouldn’t trade our planet for even the most bad-ass ride. Neither of those beliefs stopped us from laughing at this spoof ad.

(NSFW: Language) YouTube member vidproject found a Florida softshell turtle just chillin’ on his backyard. The camera shy reptile then reveals why the old fable features a tortoise and not his kind.

Babysitter Cat may look like she couldn’t care less about her ward, but she does. So much so that she’s willing to sacrifice herself just to keep the playful little human amused.

(NSFW: Language) As if the trailer for CoD: Modern Warfare 3 wasn’t awesome enough on its own, it’s now amped up just that much more, thanks to the obligatory Team America: World Police dub.

If any of you bronies out there ever wondered if the physics in My Little Pony were possible, all your questions are finally answered by MLP geek Beatledude64. Grab the full Powerpoint deck here.

Celebration of the Hindu festival Holi aka Festival of Colors at the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah. Shot by Brian Thomson on a Canon 7D. The song is Optimist by Zoe Keating.

Behold this demo of the 40mm Machine Gun by FPSRussia, the most powerful machine gun a civilian can own: it can fire a 4 pound projectile (or a giant bullet) at 2800 feet/second. (Thanks Ben!)

This twenty second commercial for Aldi in Britain starts out in typical explanatory fashion, but it’s well worth watching the whole thing just for the hilarious punchline at the end. (Thanks Andrew!)

We’re always forgetting birthdays around here, so the fact that yesterday was Maru the cat’s 4th birthday and we’re just posting this today is just par for the course. Happy 4th and a day, Maru!

(NSFW: Language) It starts with a missing line from a play and quickly descends into a mind-warping meta-conversation fueled by intense memorization, childhood issues and comedic timing.

Dateline NBC’s Chris Hansen tells a bike shop owner who allegedly does business with bike thieves to have a bike seat over there in his candidly classic confrontational style.

In Hambuster, food eats you. A fun, gory and masterfully made short film from the minds of five deranged and talented graduating students from the computer graphics university Supinfocom Arles.

Oh Mylo. The way your owner has put this goofy video together of your finest cat moments just makes us all wish we could come back as a housecat in our next life. (Thanks Adam!)

This music video for Goldfish is full of win. Not only does it have an awesome retro video game motif, the tune is totally groovin’. See if you can spot all the pop culture and gaming references in the clip.

For Disney’s Star Wars Weekends 2011, Chewbacca lets loose on stage with a little Axl Rose, while one of the Ewoks does his best Slash impression. Welcome to the jungle (of Endor.)

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” Ogilvy Brazil asked the perennial question to kids in this ad for the Red Balloon English School and turned their answers into business cards.

Annodomino2007 spent 30 hours total working on his huge domino pyramid. It was 96% complete, with just 439 dominoes yet to be placed out of the 13,482 total. But, dominoes being dominoes…

(NSFW) Two couples unwittingly summon a horde of zombies in this gory, chaotic and funny short film by Lee Hardcastle. The fast-paced action and goofy characters belie the smooth animation.

We enjoyed the first clever episode of Kid History, so here’s their latest installment for your enjoyment – just in case you need to remember how hardheaded you used to be as a youth.