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(NSFW) At once hypnotic and annoying, Evan Roth’s video for Girl Talk’s Cache Rules Everything Around Me was made entirely from animated GIFs he found around the web. Nice Pixies sample too.

Digital camera too confusing to use? Don’t know what to do with all those buttons and settings? Tired of viewing your pictures on their small screen? Then try the new 35mm Film Camera!

In this teaser for the new season of The Amazing Race, a contestant makes a mockery of launching a watermelon out of a supersized slingshot. “Ouch” doesn’t even begin to describe it. (Thanks Jeremy!)

Ninjamoped (formerly known as Rymdreglage) are back with more chiptunes, video games and LEGO. Their latest stop-motion videos feature popular NES games recreated using LEGO.

Raphael Biagini caught this 30lb. orange koi carp after ten minutes of reeling in a lake in France. Biagini put the fish back in the water after a quick photo-op. We wonder if it could get any bigger.

A handful of pictures taken from the upcoming Capt. America movie have leaked, and even though it’s not Chris Evans wearing Cap’s gear, they still give us a good look at his WWII look.

Daniel L. Smith’s short film won “Best Animation” from the Star Wars Fan Film Movie Challenge, and rightly so. We guarantee you’ll love the ending. Shame that it’s in anaglyphic 3D.

Live out your childhood fantasy, eating only the best part of cereal, the sweet, crunchy, colorful “marshmallows” found in faves like Lucky Charms. Pimp out your All Bran, or eat ’em from the bag.

The talented Matthew Inman has created a laugh-out-loud comic about the 6 main reasons we should ride polar bears to work; like the other work on his website, it’s good, silly fun. (Thanks Josh!)

The recipe for these “ridiculously delicious” and “easy for the kids to make” homemade cherry Pop Tarts on a stick is available online, so ditch that crummy one you got at the store and get crackin’.

(NSFW) Mashing up two of our favorite flicks, Morpheus explains everything there is to know about The Matrix to The Dude from The Big Lebowski. Take the red pill, Dude, take the red pill.

Contains over 700 famous lines from movies. Use it as a perfect bathroom reader, coffee table book, a quick icebreaker, or you know, find out where that one line is from. Not everyone’s a film buff.

Add dashes of your humor to your walls and furniture with Trine Andersen’s Sewing Kit WallSticker. The removable decal kit comes with 33 feet of dotted cutting lines and 4 scissors.

Popular Mechanics rounded up 8 of the best LEGO mods that they’ve seen, including a telescope, an ATM and an air conditioner. They may still look like toys, but all of the gadgets are functional.

While it’s a bit of an unorthodox way to order your food, former American Idol candidate Todrick Hall likes to sing his order at the drive-thru. Amazingly, the order taker didn’t screw it up like normal.

London-based Laurie Lipton has developed her own peculiar drawing technique building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. Insane, haunting, and inspired.

This incredible footage was captured on the CCTV cameras on the Pacific Sun cruise liner when it hit choppy waters. After watching it, life on The Deadliest Catch is starting to look calm to us.

The Gregory Brothers songify the testimony of Diana from Kansas City, who witnessed a botched hold-up. Watch the original here; Diana has some tips on what to do in hold-up situations.

The Blu-ray edition of one of the greatest horror movies ever made includes both the director’s cut and the theatrical edition, plus a documentary. Classics like this deserve to be owned, not rented.

79-year old Philip Warren started making matchstick versions of the Royal Navy’s ships when he was just 17, way back in 1948. So far he’s made 432 ships. More pics here and here.

NBC 5 reporter Bobbie Wygant’s 1977 interview of Harrison Ford for his breakout role as Han Solo in Star Wars. Ford says that to him, Star Wars is “finally about people, not finally about science.”

(NSFW) A 15 minute time investment here rewards you with a fluidly written, at times brutal, tightly directed 15 minute short film about a lottery ticket by the talented Dan Brown. (Thanks Duncan!)

What would you do if you were stuck on a desert island with nothing more than your wits and an IKEA store? Helmut Smit shows us how to assemble an IKEA fire without matches or a lighter.