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How Jurassic World Should’ve Ended

How Jurassic World Should’ve Ended

How It Should Have Ended knows how Idiots vs. Dinosaurs should’ve ended: badly. So if you somehow end up in a dinosaur park, follow these tips. You’ll probably die anyway, but at least you won’t be remembered as a moron.

If Sports Drink Ads Were Honest

If Sports Drink Ads Were Honest

After mocking fast food commercials, Cracked is back to tell us what they really think of so-called sports drinks, which are generally packed with stuff that’s really not very good for us. But it’s not like they call them “health drinks,” right?

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McAvoy & Fassbender’s Love Story

McAvoy & Fassbender’s Love Story

James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender know that the bond between Magneto and Professor X in the X-Men reboots is certainly special. But they’re not as into it as a McBender fan who made a sweet montage of their scenes.

Graphic Design Before Photoshop

Graphic Design Before Photoshop

With the increasingly digital world of image creation, Sean Adams of Lynda.com revisits just what it took to create layouts before tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Quark Express existed. Who remembers Letraset rub-ons?

An Unfortunate Teaser

An Unfortunate Teaser

Netflix is turning Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events into a series. In anticipation, fan Eleanora Poe created this short that captures the spirit of Daniel Handler’s books wonderfully. We’d be happy if this were the title sequence.

Arcade Drum Master

Arcade Drum Master

Machinima maker and game developer James McVinnie saw this dude in Tokyo wilding out to a drumming arcade game. He’s not quite god-level, but he danced and posed for James, and made it a point not to look at the game’s screen.

Bikes on a Bobsled Track

Bikes on a Bobsled Track

Watch these mountain bikers hit speeds up to 39mph down an abandoned bobsled track built for the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. Sure, it would be faster coated with ice, but they probably wouldn’t make it to the first bend.

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Hadfield & Savage as Astronauts

Hadfield & Savage as Astronauts

Adam Savage loves to attend the San Diego Comic-Con in full costume. This year he went as a 2001: A Space Odyssey astronaut with a very special guest: retired astronaut Chris Hadfield. Skip to 9:50 for their “spacewalk.”

Prophetic Tease

Prophetic Tease

(PG-13 Language) A slingshot ride attendant jokes to a pair of nervous passengers that “the ropes are looking a little frayed” as he straps them in. Then his joke became reality. Luckily, it happened before the ride left the ground.

Waffle Iron All the Things

Waffle Iron All the Things

You might think that a waffle iron was designed to make, uhm, Belgian waffles. But you’d be wrong. If the guys from ChefSteps are to be trusted, the waffle iron is the single most versatile (and messy) appliance in your kitchen.

Girl of My Dreams

Girl of My Dreams

If you’re feeling pretty bad about your life, model Jay Alvarrez’s video will only make you feel worse. It’s dedicated to his out of this world girlfriend Alexis Ren and their constant travels, but really it’s a slap to all of our faces.

Nissan HKS R35 vs. R32

Nissan HKS R35 vs. R32

Motorhead teases its “Japan Tuned” issue with a video of the HKS GT-R R35 GT1000 and the legendary HKS R32 Group-A tearing up the Gunsai touge. Get the magazine to access bonus raw in-car footage. Score by Tatreal.

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Conan’s Origin Story

Conan’s Origin Story

Since he was at the San Diego Comic-Con, Conan thought it was the right time to reveal how he became the pervy curmudgeon that he is today. The answer? Chortle beams. Also the DC universe is real, and we’re living in it.

Fan Plays Drums for Foo Fighters

Fan Plays Drums for Foo Fighters

(PG-13 Language) Anthony Bifolchi recently went to a Foo Fighters concert and brought a sign asking if he could play the drums for them as a (very special) birthday gift. Wish granted. Did we mention that Dave Grohl is the greatest?

BMX Quadruple Backflip

BMX Quadruple Backflip

After extensive planning, numerous failures, injuries, and an ample dose of hype, Nitro Circus cyclist Jed Mildon has pulled of what was once thought to be physically impossible – a 1440º backflip on his BMX bike.

Boom Balloons

Boom Balloons

The King of Random is back with another fun, yet dangerous video, as he fills party balloons with extremely flammable, lighter-than-air HHO gas, lights them with a fuse, and sends them airborne. Suffice it to say, this is not FAA approved.

LWT: Stadiums

LWT: Stadiums

Last Week Tonight explains that in the United States, teams are allowed to spend millions of dollars of taxpayer’s money for their stadiums. But studies have shown that those barely have any financial benefit for locals.

Key & Peele: Prepared for Terries

Key & Peele: Prepared for Terries

(PG-13 Language) “We gonna draxx. Them. Sklaunst.” Two airplane passengers are expecting, nay, hoping that terrorists would board their flight because they’re ready to throw down. Yep, those hairstyles are for real.

Hold & Release Bungee Jump

Hold & Release Bungee Jump

Acrobat Damien Walters is back with another crazy stunt – what could only be called the first proper bungee jump. Instead of springing back up when he reaches the bottom, he dismounts. See all the prep that went into the stunt here.

Busker Techno Rave Party

Busker Techno Rave Party

Street performer Dario Rossi demonstrates his impressive rhythm and improv skills as he uses a variety of found objects as surrogate drums on the streets of Rome, Italy. Just one question: is he rushing or dragging?

Martin Woutisseth Showreel

Martin Woutisseth Showreel

Motion and graphic designer Martin Woutisseth shows off his style, which combines elements of anime with flat fields of color resulting in animations which look like living illustrations. The track is Cobra Movement by Cobra Killer.

George R.R. Martin Is Hard at Work

George R.R. Martin Is Hard at Work

Fans of Game of Thrones and the books upon which it is based, are champing at the bit for the next book in the series, The Winds of Winter. Conan aired this secret security footage of author George R.R. Martin as he gets down to work.

Archer Hates Comic-Con

Archer Hates Comic-Con

Pam and Krieger are dressed up and ready to go to the San Diego Comic-Con, but Archer thinks he’s above all the fans and the geeky stuff they love. Watch him trash talk Mad Max, Ant-Man, Batman v Superman and more.

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