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Guitar Tips from The Doof Warrior

Guitar Tips from The Doof Warrior

(PG-13 language) Coma, the flamethrower guitar wielding freak from Mad Max: Fury Road, provides guitarists with tips and tricks to help them Doof out with their Doofs out. Man, we didn’t even think about all the bugs.

Lexus Slide Hoverboard (Teaser)

Lexus Slide Hoverboard (Teaser)

Lexus claims it has developed an honest-to-goodness hoverboard. The Slide is equipped with a liquid nitrogen reserve and magnets to attain frictionless movement. Don’t play with our hearts Lexus. Let this be legit.

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They Might Be Destiny’s Child

They Might Be Destiny’s Child

From the “unlikely covers” bin comes a remake of the 2009 Destiny’s Child hit Bills, Bills, Bills as performed by Brooklyn’s finest, They Might Be Giants. It’s a combination that makes no sense on paper, but works quite brilliantly in action.

Marvin Giraffe

Marvin Giraffe

Puppeteer Sebastian “Party Animal” Mayer sticks his neck out to prove there’s always something you’ve never seen before on the Internet, as he performs a lip-sync of Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On, dressed as a giraffe. That is all.

Amazing Guitar Harmonics

Amazing Guitar Harmonics

Guitarist Miguel Rivera turns in an incredible acoustic rendition of Michael Jackson’s classic Beat It, finessing out wondrous rhythms and crazy harmonics along the way. You can download his originals over on Bandcamp.

Powered by Evaporation

Powered by Evaporation

A team at Columbia University have come up with a new way to capture energy. The tech uses bacteria that expand and contract based on the level of humidity. With enough linked together, they can propel a machine. More on Quartz.

Fight Club for Kids

Fight Club for Kids

Once there was a boy who had no name… He couldn’t sleep, and that was a shame. Author Chuck Palahniuk pokes fun at his darkly satirical novel Fight Club with a softened up version targeted at his aging audience and their kids.

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Batman Arkham Origins Cosplay

Batman Arkham Origins Cosplay

An incredibly accurate cosplay of Batman’s armor from Arkham Origins made by Julian Chekley and his crew at Order 66. Julian’s Darth Malgus is equally awesome. Photos by Kamil Krawczak. Video here.

The Voyage

The Voyage

Photographer and cinematographer Beno Saradzic made this haunting short film out of several time-lapse sequences shot separately over several months at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Center in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Pit Stops Compared

Pit Stops Compared

YouTuber Rdwomack2 presents examples of pit stops across different motorsports: Formula One, Indycar, Formula E, NASCAR and the WEC. The transition from the deathly silence of Formula E to the chaos of NASCAR is hilarious.

Stop-Motion Karate

Stop-Motion Karate

Corridor Digital is back at it again, this time creating a fun top-down action flick that has two suitors duking it out over the object of their affection in a fight that reminds us of the old video game Karateka. BTS footage here.

JC & The Voidz: Human Sadness

JC & The Voidz: Human Sadness

(PG-13) The Strokes’ frontman teamed up with another set of talented and handsome bums. Seriously though, Julian Casablancas and The Voidz are legit, as evidenced by this epic noise rock single from their album Tyranny.

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Wheel of Impressions: Seth MacFarlane

Wheel of Impressions: Seth MacFarlane

Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon and Seth MacFarlane square off in a battle to do the best vocal impressions paired up with everyday topics. It’s worth watching if only for the Bobcat Goldthwait bit.

Pentatonix x Michael Jackson

Pentatonix x Michael Jackson

The incredibly talented a Capella vocalists of Pentatonix present a medley of hit songs spanning Michael Jackson’s expansive career, from I Want You Back to Thriller to You Are Not Alone.

Jump-starting a Car with AA Batteries

Jump-starting a Car with AA Batteries

Comic engineer Mehdi Sadaghdar tests if he can jump-start a car using only a dozen AA batteries. Yes, his car’s battery was actually dead and yes, he’s going to intentionally do something stupid so you won’t.

Largest Minecraft Pixel Art

Largest Minecraft Pixel Art

Believe it or not, this image is made of virtual blocks. Minecraft streamer Thorlar spent 23 and a half weeks manually laying 1,128,960 blocks to create this replica of a Blizzard wallpaper.

44 Pull-ups in 1 Minute

44 Pull-ups in 1 Minute

On 6/6/15, Yeo Kim Yeong set a new Guinness World Record for most pull-ups in a minute. Guinness counted 44 valid ones in Yeo’s attempt, topping the previous record by 2. And our lifetime record by 40.

Golf Trick Shots POV

Golf Trick Shots POV

Donning a GoPro, golf pro Karsten Maas shows off a variety of trick shots done with his collection of silly custom golf clubs, which range from a hammer club to a crazy 14-foot-long driver. He certainly knows how to keep his eye on the ball.

FPV Drone Racing

FPV Drone Racing

Awesome footage from an indoor competition between 30 drones as they race through the air for supremacy in an old warehouse in Melbourne, Australia. Looks like a great way to spend an afternoon. BTS footage here.

Freerunning China

Freerunning China

For the last month or so, freerunner Ronnie Shalvis has been pulling his gymnastic moves on the beaches, rooftops, towers, and walls of China. For Ronnie, the entire world is his playground, so even the most mundane places he visits look fun.

Musical Logs

Musical Logs

A group of baby goats vie for position atop some logs. Since there are more goats than logs, it turns into a game of musical chairs – sans music – and sans chairs. There, we fixed it.

LWT: Online Harassment

LWT: Online Harassment

(PG-13 Language) Last Week Tonight and Slowpoke Spiderhands John Oliver remind us that online harassment can have real and grave effects on its victims. Worse, today’s laws and law enforcers are ill-equipped to handle the issue.

The Transforming Drone

The Transforming Drone

NASA’s experimental Greased Lightning GL-10 is one of the coolest drone designs we’ve seen. The unmanned vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) craft is propelled by 10 engines, and has a giant wing that rotates in flight to propel it forward.

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