Why are we laughing so hard at Dean Fleischer-Camp’s Marcel the Shell With Shoes On video? Maybe it’s because we need charming, unsardonic humor every once in a while. (Thanks Adam!)

Cool time-lapse footage of this year’s New York City Marathon at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the starting point of the race since 1976. Bonus: helicopter hovering like a dragonfly at 0:17.

Topping this week’s releases, the Blu-ray/DVD combo includes commentary, deleted scenes, bloopers, an Adult Swim animated featurette, and of course, Ramona and her seven evil exes.

Take notes, football coaches, because you can learn a thing or two from the Driscoll Middle School team, a bunch of young smart asses who pulled off the most effortless touchdown of all time.

Want to get your entire Thanksgiving meal over with in a single course? Look no further than chow’s turkey cake, layered with sausage stuffing, cranberries, mashed and sweet potato “frosting.”

Belgium’s Gillet Vertigo supercar is back, and this time with a new 4.2L V8 engine sourced from Maserati packing 420 horses and promising even more extreme performance: all for just $265K.

Happy Hour’s stainless steel Bottoms Up watch is water resistant to 5 ATM, sports a luminous analog clock and (most importantly) has a bottle opener built right into the band buckle. (Thanks Jason!)

The crazy-expensive Trio Classico sounds as sweet as it looks, thanks its high-impedance voice coil. The satellites handle frequencies from 100 to 20,000Hz, while the sub does 18 to 350Hz.

“National UnFriend Day” isn’t exactly catchy, but Jimmy Kimmel does have a point. On 11/17, scan your Facebook friends and think – just how many of these people do I actually give a damn about?

Beyond Black Mesa is an indie film inspired by the Half-Life series of video games. If the trailer is any indication, director Brian Curtin and crew made good use of their paltry $1200 budget.

For these two German dudes, a normal day is filled with a series of throwing and balancing feats. Luck and persistence – or actual skill? Either way, they’re fun to watch. A couple more videos here.

Two of our favorite things – cured pork and fizzy water – in one tasty (?) concoction. The Jones Bacon Soda Holiday Pack includes two bottles of bacon soda plus other bacon-infused items.

In this short clip from BBC Two’s comedy The Trip, we get an amusing lesson on exactly what Cockney thespian Michael Caine really sounds like when he speaks. He’s no Ian McKellen though.

We’ve seen many attempts to create a watch band for the iPod Nano 6G, but none is so stylish and well integrated as the Hex watch casing, which truly gives Nano owners the coolest watch on the block.

Created for Abu Dhabi’s Ferrari World, the Formula Rossa rollercoaster is designed to give riders the sensation of riding in a real F1 race car. It tops out 150mph, which it achieves in less than 4.9 seconds.

Do the good people of Cleveland think LeBron James’ recent Rise ad for Nike is just more narcissistic, self-promotional build-up from a guy whose actions speak louder than his words? Hmm.

The flowing, dynamic lines on Darko Nikolić’s Wings of Nike concept car design reflect a retro-modern style that combines the sport spirit of 50’s F-1 cars with the visual appeal of 30’s vintage limousines.

This innovative approach to the robotic gripper from Cornell, the U of C, and iRobot uses granular material that flows around a item and conforms to its shape to pick up objects of all shapes and sizes.

(NSFW) Candidate Jimmy McMillan may have lost, but that doesn’t mean he’s not still funny. Watch McMillan and his “son” gang up on Charlie Sheen. Why? Because Charlie Sheen is too damn high.

We don’t know what posessed Brandon Ortwein to draw iconic vehicles as vans, but the end results are funny but still recognizable. Available as prints, iPhone/iPod Touch cases and laptop skins.

The Creatinator is a helmet-mounted fountain of possibility. It spews a variety of objects, from water to rockets. Use it in Create mode and more options open up. What will your Creatinator launch?

You’d think that modern movies would just use digital effects to create sounds, but there’s still a need for the professional Foley artist, who crafts noises with just their body, props, and mouth.

Most of us can barely stand up on a skateboard without falling off. That’s not the case with six year-old Asher Bradshaw – the future Tony Hawk. We are awed by the little tykes mad skills.