You may not know it, but there are ways to celebrate birthdays that don’t involve the Applebee’s waitstaff indifferently clapping. Mental Floss’ walks us through the diverse ways that other cultures celebrate their namedays.

KIND’s first foray into savory protein snacks are a real winner. They taste delicious, and remind us more of a meal than sweet bars. Flavors include roasted jalapeno, honey mustard, thai sweet chili, hickory smoked, and honey smoked BBQ.

Among other things, Neopost makes machines for folding and mailing letters. Some of their engineers applied their talents to making another cool machine, which uses the same technology to not only fold paper airplanes, but to launch them.

Daft Punk’s Give Life Back to Music is a great track, but its official music video leaves a little to be desired. Thankfully, Bitter Strike! Cartoons created their own fan-made music video that lives up to Daft Punk’s musical vision.

(NSFW: Language) Wikipedia is the start of our ascent descent journey towards a hive mind. TL;DR Wikipedia is our collective common sense. It’s The Onion of general information. It’s the Fake Science of trivia. It’s the Wikipedia of snark.

The tiny laptop charger we saw earlier this year is now on Kickstarter. Dart is up to 4x smaller and 6x lighter than ordinary laptop chargers. It also has a 2.1A USB charging port. Laptop compatibility list here.

Abe-chan is a common hill mynah, a species of bird known for its ability to mimic sounds, including human voices. Listen to Abe-chan speak Japanese phrases. If you don’t believe your ears, head to his YouTube channel for more.

An offshoot of the hipster hyperbole TV show, The Portlandia Activity Book is filled with fun activities and ideas like crowdfunding your baby, how to be a critic, a tarot card expansion pack and conversation starters and stoppers.

Paul Bischof builds insanely detailed papercraft models of race cars. Ultimately, his knowledge of car design and attention to detail has led him to a career designing actual Formula 1 parts for the Infiniti Red Bull Racing team.

The drop-top Corvette Z06 is equipped with the same aluminum frame as the coupe. It also has the same 625hp supercharged 6.2-liter V8 engine, brakes, suspension, transmission, wheels and tires. In other words, hold on to your hair.

Geoff Gulevich’s vertigo-inducing POV footage from his first run at the 2013 Red Bull Rampage freeride mountain biking contest. It’s the exact same event where Kelly McGarry backflipped his way through a 72ft gap. You crazy people.

As its name implies, this leather backpack has two different faces. To switch between the two, simply unhook the straps from one face and hook them to the other. Available in nubuck, redrum and black leather.

“My cheeks are attuned to her lips. I will know if they tremble.” Jesse Parent reads his poem, To The Boys Who May One Day Date My Daughter. This guy should join a battle rap event. The crowd sure acts like they’re in one. “Eat ’em!”

While most of us would choose a pack of huskies or malamutes for our dogsledding team, George Evans clearly thinks outside of the box, being pulled at breakneck speeds by his four pit bulls while riding his skateboard in Florida.

The Micropacer was decked in asbestos silver and had a built-in fitness tracker when it first came out in 1984. The running shoe returns to ride the new wave of wearable tech. Thankfully it’s in a more subdued black and white colorway.

YouTuber boatmaster shares this hilarious bug in the adventure game The Wolf Among Us, which made the lead character appear to be gyrating against an invisible pole in front of other characters. Archer is that you?

We’ve teamed up with Dr. Beasley’s and our sister site 95Octane to give away this prize package which includes over $300 worth of premium car care products that will keep your ride looking showroom new. Enter by 4/30/14.

Logan goes back to the past to round up the living but immature incarnations of his teammates, hoping to avert an apocalyptic future and defeat the Sentinels. This May, Wolverine is Marty McFly in X-Men: Days of Future Past.

The Restart Page is an interactive archive that lets you sample the restart sequences of old desktop operating systems, including QNX, Rhapsody and the officially obsolete Windows XP. Created by Soon in Tokyo and Rehab Studio.

Richard had a seemingly clever plan – to cut down a huge tree trunk, and have the discarded stump land safely in the bed of his truck for transit. It may have sounded good on paper, but the end result probably wasn’t what he intended.

The Minor League team El Paso Chihuahuas pranked their new member by making him believe one of his teammates was deaf. They kept it up – even during games – for a month. He was clueless right until they confessed.

A luxury version of the 2015 Ford Transit by Galpin Auto Sports. It features four movable throne seats, a 52″ movie screen, a Kaleidescape media server and more, with all amenities and functions controlled from an iOS app.

Artifox updated the raw wooden desk for the modern worker. Made of walnut or maple, Desk 01 has a built-in whiteboard panel, a dock for tablets and phones, a hidden shelf for cables and power strips and a couple of pegs for hanging.