The Simpsons paid tribute to filmmaker, writer, manga artist and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki. Miyazaki, who turned 72 this month, recently said that The Wind Rises is his last feature-length animated film.

Oftentimes comedy is just tragedy rephrased. South African comedian Trevor Noah triumphed over our absurdly arbitrary rules, turning his bitter experiences into his strengths. Except for his Hitlerish accent. That’s got to go.

The Sci Show tackles one of the most important issues of modern civilization: garbage disposal. Watch and learn why we should all do our part to reduce waste and dispose of it properly. Or your house could explode.

Hangar 54 took Martin Baker Mk10 ejector seats from decommissioned RAF Panavia Tornados and turned them into beautiful bar stools. Only three units exist at the moment, ready to rescue money out of your bank account.

The Xperia Z1 Compact runs Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and has a 4.3″ 720p display, 2.2 GHz quad-core CPU, LTE, NFC, a 20.7mp 1/2.3″ Exmor RS image sensor and a dedicated camera button.  It’s also waterproof and dust-resistant.

Thomas Cian is a Milan-based artist with a lot of great sketches to show but it’s these incredibly life-like graphite portraits that he’s done in his Friendsbook, a moleskine dedicated to drawing friends, that really show the depth of his talent.

The FINsix laptop charger is delightfully small and light. It will be available in Summer 2014 and will have MacBook and Windows laptop versions. The Windows charger will have several charging connectors and a 2.4A USB charging port as well.

Alite Design’s wearable sleeping bag for couples. Aside from having zippered holes for your arms and legs, it also has a full-length zipper at the side so you can zip multiple sleeping bags together *wink wink*.

Nine-year old Jaden Newman is only in fourth grade, but she’s a member of the high school women’s basketball team. She averages 14.8 PPG and 7.5APG. Their opponent’s defense sucks, but her hot hands and handles are for real.

Lorde’s Royals is the suburban teen’s anthem. Molly Dworsky tweaked the song’s lyrics and video to show what life is like at 30. You’ve never seen in a diamond in the flesh, boo-hoo. We’d be happy to see a cent left from our paycheck.

Humble Bundle has a diverse set of games for its tenth major deal, including the moving To the Moon and Papo & Yo. Pay more than the average and you get Surgeon Simulator 2013, one of the funniest games ever made.

ModCubes’ basic unit is a cube with pegs on top, similar to a LEGO brick. The idea is to align and stack multiple cubes into different shapes and sizes depending on your needs. Check out the prototypes on ModCubes’ Facebook page.

The ThinkPad 8 tablet runs Windows 8.1 Pro. It has an 8.3″ 1920×1200 screen, LTE, microUSB 3.0, microSD and micro-HDMI ports. Enterprise features include secure peer-to-peer file transfer and auto-VPN connection.

(NSFW: Language, Crude humor) Are you looking for someone who’s down with the clown? Someone who’ll whoop back when you whoop? Someone to chug Faygo with? Then go to JuggaLOVE. And don’t come back here.

InspiriProductions shot this video of the Szombathelyi Kötélugró Klub, an award-winning jump rope team from Hungary. Watch them hop, breakdance, tumble and more while skipping over a varying number of ropes.

Skull and rib fractures. Testicular rupture. Penetrating rectal trauma. Penile puncture wound. All these and more inflicted by the killing machine known as Kevin McCallister. Home Alone 1 & 2 should be retroactively rated R.

A new automotive website from the team behind The Awesomer. 95Octane features cool new cars, concepts, custom builds, great daily drivers, and even classics, following one simple mantra: “Cars that don’t suck.” RSS Feed here.

The FDR-AX100/B shoots at up to 3840×2160 resolution. It has a Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T lens with 12x optical zoom, a 1″ Exmor R CMOS sensor, optical image stabilization, OLED electronic viewfinder and 3.5″ LCD screen.

That’s right, not one, but two cactus plants. Egged on by the stupidity of fellow YouTubers Children of Poseidon and La Fenix, L.A. Beast munched on the spiked plant. They seem less lethal than the world’s hottest pepper.

Bad weather didn’t stop Andrew Hales from pulling a prank. This time he blurted out random confessions while talking to strangers. We’d also be creeped out if we talked to him, but we’re more afraid of that last lady.

Made by Grand Shelters, the Icebox makes it easy to create igloos between 7′ to 11′ in diameter. Simply pack snow in between its clamps then open it up and slide it off to make a new block. It also comes with an extendable pole.

The Transporter Sync turns any USB 2.0/3.0 external drive into your personal cloud server. Like other cloud services, you can remotely backup to and access data from the connected drive, then swap or expand as you wish.

Jerry Seinfeld kicks off the third season of the offbeat but always entertaining Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee by giving Louis C.K. a ride to the Chelsea Piers in a ridiculous 59′ Fiat Jolly so they can take Louis’ yacht on the Hudson River.