An ongoing series by YouTuber ultrabrilliant that showcases the beauty of the virtual worlds in videogames. For us, more than their beauty we’re amazed that today’s games are teeming with life. More on his website.

The Dad Knight returns. Blake Wilson – he even has the initials right! – aka BatDad posted another compilation of him fighting his kids’ bad habits and more. He even has his own version of Catwoman. Except his is just Cat.

YouTuber Srachi is back with more footage taken by his special cameraman – er, camerabird. Watch it soar through a variety of landscapes and even past its human friends. Who needs a quadcopter when you have an eagle?

The XPS 15 has a crazy-sharp 3,200 x 1,800 15.6″ screen with a touchscreen option. It runs Windows 8.1, has a carbon fiber and aluminum body and quad-core Haswell i5/i7 CPU. Drops 10/15/13 starting at $1,500.

Keloid isn’t really a short film but a series of loosely connected scenes strung together. It’s filled with bad-ass war machines and creepy living dolls though. A visual feast by VFX studio Big Lazy Robot.

Security locks for the wheels, seats and other parts of bicycles. Each lock is composed of a nut and a screw cap with a three character combination lock. You can personalize the characters on the locks too.

An old couple gets on an amusement park ride that they know all too well. Of course, given that this is a Cyanide & Happiness cartoon you just know it’s not going to end well. The fun is in finding out how it’s not going to end well.

UK design shop Wallpapered.com creates custom wall art using upscaled maps of your specific location of interest. They’ll design and ship internationally, and also offer all sorts of other cool wall coverings.

Paris, France with barely a living soul in sight. Menilmonde erased people out of their footage using video editing software. As if that wasn’t creepy enough, they added ominous images and machine translated voices to the video.

(NSFW: Language) Brad Neely is aliiiive! The webcomic creator and writer is back with a new character called Queeblo, who Neely says “lives a life I once lived.” Which apparently entails coasting through life with burgers and beer.

The story of Frankenstein’s monster gets an action-packed modern update in this story that takes place some 200 years after his creation. Based on the Darkstorm Studios graphic novel by Kevin Grevioux.

Boston Dynamics is at it once again. This time, they’re showing off a robot that can gallop and bound around like some sort of crazed, headless packmule. You won’t outrun its 16mph top speed, but at least you can hear it coming.

No matter what they seem to do, it seems there’s just no way to avoid the almighty currents pushing these kayakers one after another into the same giant boulder along a stretch of the Ardèche Gorges in France.

This vodka has a heavenly aroma of burnt sugar and vanilla, but isn’t sweet. This makes for some amazing cocktails, like the popcorn martini, made with caramel corn and simple syrup. Also tastes great with tangy ginger ale, or straight up.

Director Guillermo del Toro handled the opening bit for The Simpsons’ latest Halloween special. The sequence is filled with fantasy and horror authors and characters, including ones from del Toro’s movies. Can you spot Gipsy Danger?

Play as Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach or Toad and use their unique abilities to defeat Bowser and his goons. Super Mario 3D World for the Wii U features co-op multiplayer and new items including the Cat Suit. MEEEEOW!

Mental Floss takes a look at how some of the most popular idioms in the English language came to be. You might already know some of them, but many have surprising origins. We hope they feature foreign idioms as well.

A speaker dock with a 7″ Android tablet. Stream audio and video from Android apps and more. It also has an HDMI output, FM Radio and a CD Player. The best thing about it could be its rumored price: $178. Available at Walmart soon.

Brice Milleson checked out the Slip ‘N Fly, a long slip n’ slide strip that ends on a ramp, boosting you up for a big splash at the pool on the other end. The Slip ‘N Fly is at the Ohio Dreams Action Sports Camp.

The Seventh Movement captured the size, energy and the relentless pace of New York City with their amazing time-lapse. The song is Monsieur Adi’s remix of Rumble and Sway by Jamie N Commons. More on the video here.

(NSFW: Language) Jeremy Jones, Zak Hale, Mark Sollors, and Ethan Deiss glide, grind and go over snowy suburbs in various locations around the world. Absolutely sick tricks. From Burton Snowboard’s four-part video series.

A new gameplay video for Bungie’s upcoming FPS Destiny, featuring more enemies, settings, weapons and armor. Those who pre-order the game can reserve a spot for the Destiny closed beta that will open on early 2014.

Are you digging Kerbal Space Program? Wait for Defect SDK, a ship designing game with space combat. Engage in an escalating war with your dissenting crew and build bigger and better spaceships to beat your previous creations.