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Chuck Norris vs. Angry Birds

Chuck Norris vs. Angry Birds

If you’ve still got a few Angry Birds levels you could never complete, watch this and you’ll wish that Chuck Norris really was a playable character in the game. Think Mighty Eagle, but with facial hair.

Collapsing Cooling Towers

Collapsing Cooling Towers

Green UK energy company Ecotricity would like to put an end to dependence on traditional energy sources. Let’s say goodbye to the old by knocking down some anthropomorphized cooling towers.

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Sit Ski Backflip

Sit Ski Backflip

Skier Josh Dueck suffered a catastrophic injury in 2004, breaking his back, leaving him a paraplegic. Through sheer perseverance, Josh has come back to do the world’s first backflip on a seated ski rig.

Red Bull Stratos 2012

Red Bull Stratos 2012

It looks like the Stratos project was delayed, but Felix Baumgartner and the Red Bull team are still set on sending him to the edge of space and ensuring he survives the hypersonic fall.

Banjo Kid

Banjo Kid

Nine year old Jonny Mizzone twangs the hell out on his banjo. And that’s just practice. Jonny and his brothers Robbie (age 12) and Tommy (age 14) are the bluegrass trio Sleepy Man Banjo Boys.

Bobcat Ninja: Beer Bottles

Bobcat Ninja: Beer Bottles

If you’ve ever used a construction excavator, you know they’re not the most precise vehicles. That didn’t stop this talented Bobcat driver from using one to delicately stack beer bottles and a golf ball.

Weatherman Extraordinaire

Weatherman Extraordinaire

Dos Equis, meet Tom Murphy – the most interesting weatherman in the world. Be enthralled as he drops pop culture references while delivering the low-down on the weather.

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Next Level Pies

Next Level Pies

The Culinary OGs of Epic Meal Time bake the most absurd pies this side of a Cherpumple, including liquor-infused apple pie, whole chicken pie, pad thai pie, mac and cheese pie and pizza pie pie.

A Day Made of Glass 2

A Day Made of Glass 2

Corning’s follow up to its vision of a fancy future will regale you with glass that projects holograms, light-sensitive glass and more. It looks like the pen and paper are about to go extinct.

Double Fine Adventure

Double Fine Adventure

Double Fine Productions – maker of Psychonauts, Stacking and more – are asking for your help to make a new point-and-click adventure game and a documentary covering the game’s development.

Self-Referential Television

Self-Referential Television

There was a time when one TV show would never dream of mentioning the existence of another. These days, however, it seems that all of these fake realities are connected in a giant Möbius loop.

The Death & Return of Superman

The Death & Return of Superman

(NSFW: Language) Max Landis’ short film about DC Comics’ various attempts to make Superman more interesting. Look for cameos from Elijah Wood, Mandy Moore, Ron Howard, and Simon Pegg.

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SSSS

SSSS

Jorge Jimenez and Diego Gutierrez developed Separable Subsurface Scattering, a technique that renders realistic skin in real-time. Jimenez hopes that SSSS will lead to more engaging video games.

Apple Scotland

Apple Scotland

(NSFW: Language) You’ve probably already seen news coverage on Siri’s troubles with Scottish accents. Gavin McInnes provides a little insight to the problem with his own Apple commercial.

The Great Battle of Skyrim

The Great Battle of Skyrim

Tyrannicon’s epic machinima makes use of Skyrim, various mods, 500 Draugr, 200 skeletons, 500 Dwarven Warriors and a dragon. Our graphic cards would melt if we tried to run this in real time.

Faking Before & After Photos

Faking Before & After Photos

Furious Pete shows us a possible way of faking before and after shots in a short amount of time even with minimal usage of photo-editing software. The secret? You have to already be ripped.

Lindsey Stirling: Shadows

Lindsey Stirling: Shadows

We’ve seen shadows move on their own before, but with sweet moves like this, we’d welcome another chance to see rock and hip hop violinist Lindsey Stirling and her shadow bust a move.

Badass Crab

Badass Crab

Injured in a failed attempt to steal a booby chick from its parents, this crab intentionally amputates its broken limb because he has dishonored his clan safe in the knowledge that it will grow again.

LEGO Captain America

LEGO Captain America

Sorry Chris Evans, but this minifig does a better job of portraying the Star Spangled Avenger. Watch him tear the flesh out of his enemies. This Cap would have punched his way out of the ice.

Glassboy

Glassboy

Israeli television commercial director Roni Kleiner’s 45 second live action PSA is enhanced with a dramatic visual effect, and is beautiful in its execution of a strong yet simple message.

St. Bernards Out for a Walk

St. Bernards Out for a Walk

The dogs in this video aren’t doing anything special. But they make up for it with sheer quantity – there’s 42 of them, spreading drool all over the forest and scaring trees with their saw-like bark.

Halftime Show Reaction

Halftime Show Reaction

FoD’s Billy Eichner went to the Super Bowl for Conan O’Brien to find out what everyone thought of Madonna, and the reactions are pretty priceless. Yup, we think her show was long enough too.

M.I.A.: Bad Girls

M.I.A.: Bad Girls

Electro-hip-hop artist and humanitarian Maya Arulpragasam aka M.I.A. chills on top of a raised BMW in this swag-packed video for her new and straight-up dope single Bad Girls.

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