Awesome Videos

Mario and Fafa give us a multitude of reasons why time travel may not be such a good idea, but it looks like whether we’re coming or going, it’s pretty darn amusing. (Thanks John!)

Mental Floss’ The List Show returns with one of its most practical episodes yet. All websites should require people to watch this video before giving away commenting privileges.

The classic Russian theme song to Tetris gets a catchy ragtime redo by musician Scott Bradlee. We can close our eyes and visualize countless bricks dropping into perfect lines already.

While we’re firm proponets of letting our brains wander aimlessly on the Internet, the guys at Epipheo and author Nicholas Carr say that today’s approach to consuming information may not be the best thing for our grey matter.

Motor Trend’s Epic Drive show takes a trip to a Caribbean museum of 1950s American cars – Cuba. Even if you’re not a gearhead, it’s still worth watching, because it meanders and looks at the culture of the island nation.

(Gore) From the darkest corner of YouTube and the mind of filmmaker Robert Morgan comes this short film about a cat who wants to be like us. Awww right? More like awww crap. The title is not metaphorical by the way.

YouTuber MrSolidSnake745 cranks out another Daft Punk classic on the most appropriate of musical instruments – a set of eight floppy drives. He also offers up One More Time, Something About Us and some Digital Love.

Darth Vader hunts down two unlucky Jedi in The Stunt People’s follow-up to their viral hit. If you want more, pledge to their Kickstarter to help fund a mini-series. Best watched in full screen and high-def with headphones on.

(NSFW: Language) What will you search for in this video? Is it meaning? Purpose? Or perhaps just a point? All we can say is that YouTuber videogamedunkey is not parodying what you think he’s parodying.

This video is the centerpiece of RIT student Michael Lacanilao’s attempt at starting an urban legend – that somewhere on the RIT campus, there is a space-bending stairwell that was made by a mysterious architect.

Red Bull scored the drive of a lifetime, closing off New Zealand’s hairpin-filled Crown Range highway so driver “Mad Mike” Whiddett could burn it up with his 750hp Mazda RX7 as a helicopter captured his hooning from above.

This Labrador Retriever is a lot smarter than this poor fellow. At least he knows what an actual human looks – or smells – like. But he is a dog after all. This is the limit of his understanding right here.

The Gregory Brothers jumped onto the story of Cleveland’s heroic Charles Ramsay quicker than you can say “big testicles,” with their songified version of his colorful post-rescue interview. So grab some ribs and sing along!

Boston-based artist Jake Fried has created a very entertaining, minute long animation with ink, gouache, white-out and coffee, drawn by hand. You might want to watch it more than once – the details are rich and fleeting.

An inexperienced user tries on an Oculus Rift head-mounted display, and goes for a virtual roller coaster ride – while standing up. Next time you try and simulate a seated activity, you might want to remain seated.

An impressive DIY build in which R/C enthusiast TheMiro59 built a model of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D which can actually fly. It even has fiber-optic lighting. Though it flies using a propeller, not warp nacelles.

Charles Ramsey became a hero after he helped rescue three women who were abducted more than a decade ago from his neighbor. But he’ll become an Internet sensation because of his biting sense of humor at 2:20.

Professor Sam Scott Lapin was shooting a promo video for something called LEGO Town (can we go there on vacation, please?) when his cat upstages him. Better not let kitty lose in LEGO Town, unless you want a Catzilla incident.

Swordmaker Tony Swatton creates another epic movie replica, with a functional version of dwarf warrior Gimli’s Bearded Axe from The Lord of the Rings, forged from 148 layers of Damascus steel with etched bronze details.

Formula 1, Shmormula 1. What we want to see is a bunch of minivans burning up the race circuit. Leave it to the Japanese to put these suburban abominations to the test on a track. Who will win? Mazda or Honda?

Watch the Airigami team assemble one of their latest creations at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. It’s a 20-foot balloon acrocanthosaurus, accompanied by balloon plants and insects. More photos here.

One-man orchestra Jason Yang’s latest clip is a lovely medley of themes from The Game of Thrones, The Hobbit and The Dark Knight. Just one question: When is the movie coming out?

We’ve seen our fair share of weird faucets, and the behavior of these two faucets seem tame in comparison. Still, it’s not every day that you get to see an all-or-nothing deal in a restroom.