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Blur & Jimmy Fallon: Tender

Blur & Jimmy Fallon: Tender

While backstage at The Tonight Show, recently reunited UK mega-band Blur turned in a heartfelt performance of Tender, accompanied by Jimmy Fallon and way more people than should comfortably fit in the Green Room.

OWLTAC Selectable Battery Flashlight

OWLTAC Selectable Battery Flashlight

The A1T Endure tactical flashlight lets you selectively run on one of two batteries so it keeps working when one runs out. Pledge $69+, then message the seller with “theawesomer” for a bonus single battery flashlight worth $35.

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LWT: Standardized Testing

LWT: Standardized Testing

Last Week Tonight looks at standardized tests in the US. What should be an objective system often appears to be inaccurate, convoluted and unfair to both students and teachers. If they even make sense at all.

Box of Awesome: Charred

Box of Awesome: Charred
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The perfect gift for the barbeque fiend, Bespoke Post’s Charred box includes a walnut-handled spatula, tongs and grill fork, maple wood chips for adding smoke to meats, and a deliciously spicy bottle of pineapple and habañero hot sauce.

Soda Bottle Close Call

Soda Bottle Close Call

A pedestrian walking along a road in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil had the scare of a lifetime when an out of control truck headed straight for him, hurling hundreds of bottles of soda at him along the way. Incredibly, he escaped unharmed.

Enter Sandman, Backwards

Enter Sandman, Backwards

In celebration of May-tallica, Rob Scallon performed this trippy rendition of Enter Sandman, playing the whole song backwards, including the vocals, then reversing the video. Here’s the forward version.

Cove Charging Station

Cove Charging Station

Accessory maker Griffin Technology turned to crowdfunding to produce this elegant charging station, which holds up to five tablets, phones, and other gadgets, and keeps them out of sight. In birch, walnut or ebony woodgrain finishes.

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Original Gentleman: Hip Hop Dancing

Original Gentleman: Hip Hop Dancing

“Over the hill… and picking up speed.” That’s how 60-year-old UK expat and Bay Area resident Peter Barnes describes himself. Here he reinforces that statement, proving that age has nothing to do with a youthful spirit. More here.

Leafblower Volcano

Leafblower Volcano

(PG-13 Language) A guy and his dad were out in the yard when they had an idea. Take the leaf blower they were using and point it directly into the fiery belly of a chiminea. The result – a fire-belching mini volcano. Mom was not as amused.

Prophetic NBA Commercials

Prophetic NBA Commercials

The NBA aired two playoffs commercials starting a few days before the postseason began. All the teams in the first ad eventually advanced to the second round at the expense of all the teams in the second ad.

Win: Age of Ultron Headphones & Tix

Win: Age of Ultron Headphones & Tix

Avengers fans, enter now for a chance to win a pair of Ultron-themed headphones along with two movie tickets from Fandango courtesy of #DolbyAtmos – the most awesome and immersive way to hear movies. (Ends 5/8/15).

Destroying a LEGO Star Destroyer

Destroying a LEGO Star Destroyer

Celebrate Star Wars Day with some Imperial destruction! After spending 16 hours building a massive LEGO Star Destroyer, WIRED did the unthinkable – they smashed it and captured the recording at 1000fps for our enjoyment.

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Aluminum in a Watermelon

Aluminum in a Watermelon

TheBackyardScientist poured a bucket of molten aluminum into a watermelon, expecting the fruit to either explode or fail catastrophically. Instead, the hot metal seeped into the melon’s guts and created a fascinating organic sculpture.

AETHER Motorcycle Collection

AETHER Motorcycle Collection

AETHER’s jackets and pants keep you warm, dry and safe on bike tours. The Expedition is waterproof, abrasion resistant, shock padded and packed with pockets, the Skyline is great every day, and the quilted leather Eclipse looks sharp.

Cat and Mouse

Cat and Mouse

This a-hole siamese cat refuses to let his human servant use the mouse on his computer, batting his hand away every time he reaches for the pointing device. Clearly, this guy needs to start using a trackpad.

Extropy: Speedhack

Extropy: Speedhack

A man rides a biomorphic motorcycle in Dylan J. Nathan’s proof-of-concept for his futuristic computer animated short film Extr0py. Either the dude is really small or the bike’s proportions are all wrong. Still pretty cool though.

Stop

Stop

(PG-13: Language) An African American teenager is subjected to a stop-and-frisk on his way home. Reinaldo Marcus Green’s tense short film imbibes in us the fear and paranoia that takes root during and after the experience.

All Trailers are the Same

All Trailers are the Same

Red Letter Media’s movie trailer version of Groundhog Day is a cynical supercut that points out the elements of Hollywood action movie trailers. It starts out funny, but it snowballs into a sickening blob of formulaic spectacle.

Exanima (Trailer)

Exanima (Trailer)

Exanima is a punishing isometric action RPG for Windows. The game is built around dynamic lighting and physics-based combat that requires careful aiming, maneuvering and awareness of your environment.

Black Hole Sandwich

Black Hole Sandwich

(PG-13 Language) Day Job Orchestra’s nonsensical, obscenity-filled redub of Kanye, Star Trek and Little House on the Prairie is what Bad Lip Reading would be if it were written by a roomful of 10- to 12-year-old boys.

James Bond: Aston Martin vs. Jaguar

James Bond: Aston Martin vs. Jaguar

A peek at the supercar rides of James Bond and his nemesis Mr. Hinx in the upcoming movie SPECTRE. James Bond’s Aston Martin DB10 will engage in a chase scene in the streets of Rome against Mr. Hinx’s Jaguar C-X75.

Absolutely Anything (Trailer)

Absolutely Anything (Trailer)

Simon Pegg stars, along with the voices of Monty Python and Robin Williams in this comedy from Python alum Terry Jones about aliens who perform an experiment on mankind by bestowing a human with the power to do anything he wants.

SNL: Black Widow

SNL: Black Widow

SNL pokes fun at Marvel’s seeming inability to deliver on a compelling female superhero on screen, as they completely miss the point of Black Widow, and cast her in a romantic comedy. It’s not like DC has done any better.

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