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While we’re not sure it’s as fun as The Princess Bride with cats, the chatty duel between Inigo Montoya and Wesley… er… The Dread Pirate Roberts is just a bit more thrilling with lightsabers.

Alan Marsala and Chance McManus combined footage from Halo: Reach with live action – and cheesy acting – to make their short film, You Will Never Get The Power Core.

A crosswalk sign in the city of Spokane, Washington has been spotted flipping the bird instead of just raising a hand. An official says that snow wedged in the sign might be the culprit.

The moral of this story is simple. Never leave your dog alone in the car. At least the driver of this truck didn’t leave the engine on, or else the Bichon behind the wheel might have run someone over.

Like the Stones? Sit back and enjoy this awesome elderly street performer in Brussels as he rocks out his own “special” version of the classic (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction. Stick around for a bonus medley.

Freddie Wong is up to his gun-slinging again – with bullets and blood once again flying across the small screen. Wong claims this 2 minute clip is from a 90 minute film that they lost the first 88 minutes of.

The guys at Team Black Sheep managed to fly a remote-controlled plane through the city’s iconic urban skyline, capturing some incredible aerial shots with a tiny camera mounted on the plane.

If you don’t have the patience to watch Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours, watch this slightly shorter story that pretty much covers the same ground. Say, didn’t we see this on an episode of Sealab?

No animal was harmed to make this video. We don’t think the chicken even noticed the jerks who were messing with her. Nothing they did could take her eyes off whatever she was looking at.

GE Aviation created this amazing video which combines the flight take-off and landing paths of multiple airplanes into a single shot. Hopefully, the FAA won’t start stacking planes this close together.

Google Earth plus Wayback Machine equals Earth Engine. The new technology stores historical and daily satellite imagery and data to allow scientists to observe planetary changes over time.

8-bit fanatic DoctorOctoroc is back on his game with 30 chiptune tracks based on classic TV shows, cartoons and commercials. Ok, Adventures of The Gummi Bears is not a classic.

No, we aren’t tired of projection mapping yet, or TRON for that matter: check out the full projection mapping light show spectacle for TRON: Legacy on the roof of the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.

Invite all your friends over to see your new, beautiful tool: the handforged classic boy scout axe, made by Sweden’s premier axe making firm and using American Hickory for its 15″ handle.

Imagine, if you will, that Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner were a couple of human beings instead of cartoon characters. Thanks to this short, you don’t need to imagine. That’s all Folks!

Fred & Farid made these commercials for citrus drink Orangina. We’re pretty sure they were made with the YouTube generation in mind, because it features talking animals and makes no sense at all.

It is what it says it is, a blog dedicated to posting pictures of Kim Jong-Il looking at random objects. We already got a good chuckle the moment we found out that this blog exists.

We though Mike Wilson’s triple flip was pretty impressive, so we’re not quite sure how to describe his quadruple flip into the icy depths of Lake Tahoe. Dare we say it’s awesome? (Thanks Corey!)

Britain’s Ministry of Defense has put the HMS Invincible, an old aircraft carrier from the Falklands war, up for sale to cut a deficit. Bidders have until January 5 to make an offer, so get cracking.

Spy Films created this awesome commercial for Bahrain Telco. Surely even the best phone or Internet service won’t make everyday life feel this awesome, but it does make for a good ad.

Dragon or dinosaur? No matter: we’re enjoying what the talent from .wav has created on this visitor platform for the “Hafencity” in Hamburg; they’d probably get arrested trying to do it here.

A couple of weeks back, The Late Late Show did a special Doctor Who-themed show, but this musical tribute never aired. Until now. Listen carefully. The crocodile-alligator speaks the truth.

The talented Danny MacAskill lends his street trials skills to make a commercial for Scottish recruitment site s1jobs. We can’t decide if we’d be stoked or terrified to have Danny’s job though.