Awesome Etc

YouTube user myeyedeleon shows us how she puts on and removes her prosthetic eye. This video is definitely not for the squeamish, but it’s very interesting and actually not that freaky.

We’re lucky if we can play Chopsticks on our toy piano, but this girl manages to play a violin, piano, and an exotic string instrument at the same time. We wonder if she’s playing two more with her feet.

After a woman has her house broken into, she invites two officers into her home to help identify the perp. Thanks to the skills of their sketch artist, one more baddie could be off the street soon.

If you think the idea of falling down the side of a mountain sounds intense, just watch this video of a rider whose snowmobile wipes out and leaves him tumbling for what seems like an eternity.

We’ve posted our share of silly animal videos, but we want to know if you love ’em or hate ’em. State your case over on Facebook, then check out something else that people either love or hate.

StoryCorps is a nonprofit organization that archives stories told by American citizens, like this one from Kay Wang, who was reluctantly taken by her son and granddaughter to share her stories.

We’ve seen the da Vinci surgical robot fold tiny paper airplanes, so it should be plenty accurate to perform surgery on humans – or to remove your wish bone without making your nose light up.

A short excerpt from the documentary Lessons for the Living, featuring 10 hospice volunteers sharing their experiences and what they have learned from their time with dying people. Trailer here.

A priest is called to help a young lady who is being tormented and controlled by a devil – a Dirt Devil. Produced by Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg for the Centrino Clean Control vacuum cleaner.

Sprung from the nerdy genius mind of Conner Anderson, here’s an extremely amusing parody of Like A G6 by The Far East Movement – with lots and lots of D&D references. (Thanks, Dylan!)

Martin Woutisseth made this chronological list of some Stanley Kubrick’s most memorable films, shown in the form of animated movie posters. A great reminder of Kubrick’s talent.

Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus. The word “Uranus” usually brings a little giggle to our juvenile inner-selves. This recent clip from Who Wants to be a Millionaire just about made us spit out our coffee.

The horrifying story of a domesticated whale, content to serve his bosses Dial and Wade, happy in his small world, until a little psycho named Jesse comes and kidnaps him. Wait what?

(NSFW: Language) Made by the team behind Nuka Break, Captain America: The Fighting Avenger puts a squad of soldiers in a life-or-death battle. For them anyway. For Cap, it’s just another day.

(NSFW: Language) We’re not going to like everything we come across in the world (and on the Internet). Fine. But the world doesn’t exist to please us either, so let’s cut back on the hate.

Probably the weirdest video you’ll see all week, The S From Hell by Rodney Ascher is a short documentary-cum-horror film about the 1964 Screen Gems logo and the effect it had on children.

If you didn’t have the 3 hours or the patience to watch The Royal Wedding, here’s an amusing, overdubbed version to bring you up to speed, conveniently abbreviated to 1:30. (Thanks Maffin!)

Conan is concerned about the casting of Chris Hemsworth as Thor, but that’s because he saw the wrong video yet again. He saw the same trailer that we did, but he didn’t hear the same thing.

A couple of burglars break in to Freddie Wong’s house, but he’s ready for them, planting traps all over the place. Maybe if Kevin McCallister was this brutal we wouldn’t have all those crappy sequels.

Weird Al’s latest single, a spoof of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way, was not initially approved, but it’s a go now – good thing, since any song immortalized by Weird Al is classic. (Thanks Daniel!)

MC Mr Napkins has put together an entertaining vid about a mean and annoying bee who used to dive-bomb him outside his residence; too bad he doesn’t know he inspired a song. (Thanks Martin!)

This close-up video by Ahmet Özkan shows an ant being hog-tied by a spider. Not only is the photographic detail incredible, there’s an extra-special surprise if you stick around until the end.

Firefox users – find out what the preference options in the about:config screen do with this add-on. Simply right-click on a preference and you’ll see a link to its entry in the MozillaZine Wiki.