When kids do the storytelling, some tales get better with time. This retelling of a family story by the younger members of the family (and acted out by the older ones) is a great example. (Thanks Kara!)

We’re not sure if these dogs think they’re doing the conga, or if they’re trying to be a canine caterpillar. Either way, they’re so cute we want to puke. Bonus points for the bike-riding leader of the pack.

We’ve seen plenty of Space Shuttle takeoffs over the years, but NASA’s solid rocket booster cameras show us amazing new perspectives we’ve never seen before. View the full 29-minute version here.

Written and directed by Ien Chi, Tick Tock follows – in reverse – the story of Emit (get it?) who’s led to believe that he only has 5 mins left to live. Neat movie, although the captions are overkill.

The EGO is a small electric boat that floats on the water, piloted from a see-through cabin that rides just beneath the surface, allowing a clear view of underwater life without getting wet – or the bends.

UK designer and model artist Kyle Bean has created an ironic project called What Came First? – a visual pun based on the saying, by crafting a chicken from egg shells. We’d love to see a series.

As part of this past week’s tribute to the nation of Finland, Conan takes the country’s top export (Angry Birds) and flings them at a pile of arch-rival Sweden’s top export (IKEA furniture).

Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman and the Furious Five are back, as the big-bellied panda and his anipals must pull out their best combo moves to save Kung Fu from Gary Oldman’s evil Lord Shen.

We Can Pretend’s teaser for their fan film fired up a media frenzy that got people thinking it was a trailer or announcement for Modern Warfare 3. But confusion aside, WCP’s film is pretty good.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you already know what this is a parody of. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, the trailer should provide sufficient context. All hail King Koopa!

National Geographic used statistics to come up with the world’s most typical person. So if you ever encounter an alien and you’re asked what the average Earthling is like, you know what to say.

A head-scratching concept designed by John Leung of Clarke Hopkins Clarke Architects, the bookshelf has a couple of slanted wires in the middle that converge into one when viewed from up front.

(NSFW: Language) It’s an “inner city versus outer space” battle in Attack of the Block, about a group of teenage troublemakers who are out to defend their South London territory from aliens. WHAT?

Chris Akrigg rivals Danny MacAskill when it comes to being a crazy trials cyclist. This video shows off his talents with mountain downhill, rock trials, steep jumps and urban downhill riding. (Thanks Jason!)

Artist Andrew Myers creates these incredible 3-dimensional portraits by drilling 8,000 to 10,000 individual screws into a plywood panel, then paints the heads to complete the imagery.

We recently saw a man with propeller-powered ski rig, but stuntman Troy Hartman totally one-ups that guy with his jet-powered ski pack, which manages 47MPH at 50% throttle. We want 100% throttle!

(NSFW: Language) If you believe Steve Jobs, the iPad 2 is a wondrous, amazing, revolutionary thing. Or if you watch this Apple parody, your illusions might just be ever-so-slightly iShattered.

The SZ-30MR may look like a typical mid-range camera, but it has a unique feature – it can capture full 16-megapixel stills while you’re shooting 1080p HD video through its 24x optical zoom lens.

There’s nothing like emerging from the bowels of the subway to find yourself in a new, vibrant part of the city. Sarah Klein and Tom Mason do their best to capture this in their all-too-short film.

It looked like Anarchy Reigns was just another brawler, but it’s got a new twist. Action Triggered Events (ATEs) disrupt your fights with tidal waves, blades of death and other catastrophic calamities.

OneMinuteGalactica shows us in the most gentle and persuasive way that rudeness can kill, over and over and over again, with this mashup of retro instruction and the Governator. (Thanks Bort!)

(NSFW: Language) This remake of Tron requires a bit of imagination from viewers. Yes, those swaths of cloth are meant to be lightcycle trails. You’d be surprised at how much damage they can deal.

By making good use of perspective and clever woodworking, mcwolles has managed to create a real life version of the granddaddy of troll physics, M.C. Escher’s famous Waterfall.