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Lip Sync Battle: Alison Brie

Lip Sync Battle: Alison Brie

Will Arnett was in this Lip Sync Battle episode too, but he chose his songs poorly and set himself up for a beat down. Skip to 2:28 for Alison’s Shoop in the first video and to 1:35 for her Bang Bang in the second video.

Fargo: Season 2 (Teaser)

Fargo: Season 2 (Teaser)

It’s just a brief tease, but the second season of Fargo appears to yet again capture the spirit of the Coen Brothers’ warped universe. As one commenter put it: “Are we going to watch this? Oh yeah. You betcha.” Drops 9/2015 on FX.

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Forging The Bride’s Katana

Forging The Bride’s Katana

“When we let things convey unto us, that is true artistic expression. But when we try to convey ourselves onto things, that is delusion.” Man at Arms Reforged made a katana from scratch using traditional Japanese tools and techniques.

Free: ‘The 4-Hour Chef’ Audiobook

Free: ‘The 4-Hour Chef’ Audiobook

Author Tim Ferriss teaches the concept of “meta-learning” to help you not only become a better cook, and to hunt and forage, but the essential techniques to learn more quickly. Download the audiobook for free from the Technabob Shop.

Nike Flyease

Nike Flyease

Inspired by a young Nike fan with cerebral palsy, the Flyease is a wrap-around zipper around the heel that lets you wear shoes using one hand. The first model with Flyease, the LeBron 8 Soldier Flyease, drops 7/16/15 on Nike.com.

Tom Cruise’s MI: Rogue Nation Stunt

Tom Cruise’s MI: Rogue Nation Stunt

Tom Cruise may not be as crazy as Jackie Chan, but he’s awfully close. He didn’t have a double for his airplane stunt in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, which took them eight takes to get right. It should be named MI: Balls of Steel.

1953 Fiat V8 Supersonic

1953 Fiat V8 Supersonic
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The 8V is a unicorn among Fiat’s mass-market wares: a touring sports car with a 110bhp 2L V8 engine. But the 8V Supersonic is even rarer. Out of the 114 8Vs, only 15 were blessed with the Ghia body designed by Giovanni Savonuzzi.

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Expectation vs. Reality: Water Slide

Expectation vs. Reality: Water Slide

Like getting drunk, water slides are not always as awesome as commercials and YouTube slow mos make them out to be. Chances are the weather won’t cooperate, and you’re not as agile or graceful as you imagine.

Steven Brundage vs. Penn & Teller

Steven Brundage vs. Penn & Teller

Magician Steven Brundage performed his way out of a speeding ticket. But can he fool the great Penn and Teller? Watch as he manipulates and solves Rubik’s Cubes in ridiculous ways. He explained his performance a bit on Reddit.

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?

VHS Pillows

VHS Pillows
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Etsy seller The UFO Party makes 9″x 16″ throw pillows printed with art from VHS boxes. The store has several stock designs from popular movies, but you can also request a particular movie for them to scan and print.

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Donnie & Alison Tributes

Donnie & Alison Tributes

BBC gave their fans at the San Diego Comic-Con a bit of fan service featuring Orphan Black‘s Alison and Donnie Hendrix. They were presented in three hilarious themed montages: a sitcom, a horror flick and a Spanish soap opera.

Crafted (Trailer)

Crafted (Trailer)

“Where things come from matter.” Morgan Spurlock’s short documentary features five artisans: a seventh generation potter, two chefs and two knife makers. Crafted looks at their fears, failures, passion and achievements.

Rise of the Tomb Raider (Gameplay)

Rise of the Tomb Raider (Gameplay)

The sequel to the 2013 reboot is still going for cinematic action, but this new Lara Croft keeps things exciting with stealth gameplay and odds extremely stacked against her. More games need to have crafting without menus.

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.

Outcast (Teaser)

Outcast (Teaser)

We’re not sure where Robert Kirkman has the time to create another TV series. Regardless, Cinemax plans on launching this series in 2016, based on Kirkman and Paul Azaceta’s Outcast – about a man posessed by demons. More here.

Things Could Be Much Worse Mug

Things Could Be Much Worse Mug

Having a bad day? Calamityware’s 12oz. porcelain willow pattern mugs are here to remind you that things could be much worse. You could get attacked by a giant robot, ransacked by pirates or abducted by UFOs.

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.

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.”

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