Awesome Silly

With so many companies making people return to their offices, Matty from Unnecessary Inventions figured they could use something to make things more entertaining. So he got to work rigging up a couple of desk chairs on a beam so two people can pretend they’re on a playground. But his version of the see-saw is better than most because it also spins.

There is irrefutable proof that rats love pizza. Embrace the natural relationship between a rodent and his dinner with this vinyl and plastic toy from Archie McPhee. Mr. Rat rides in a 5.5″ long slice of pepperoni pizza that rolls along the ground when you pull it back. They also make a smaller version for rat racing with friends.

Corporate bureaucrats and pencil pushers are experts at using dumb words that mean nothing in the real world. This desktop fidget toy from Uncommon Goods lets you fidget during unnecessary Zoom calls and create B.S. phrases like “leverage deliverable synergistically” and “proactively circle back on stakeholders.”

Artist LeopARTnik creates hilarious short animations by drawing arms on birds. This compilation video shows some of his best doodles from 2023, including a bird putting a guitar smackdown on a kitten, a chicken on tiny skis, and a parrot that washes windows. Quantastic put together a couple more videos of his work.

The game QWOP challenged players to make a 2-dimensional figure walk using their keyboard to control its limbs. The 3D platformer Baby Steps takes this idea to the next level, asking gamers to move a character through a variety of challenging environments by controlling only his feet. Coming to PC and PS5 in 2024.

Inspired by the idea that Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down, mad inventor Colin Furze decided he wanted to become a Weeble himself. So he got to work on a semi-circular concrete base and a mounting plate that allows him to roll around his workshop without faceplanting.

When you think about it, music is just an assemblage of brief noises sequenced together. So even though musician Daniel Thrasher calls this composition “nonsense,” it’s really not that much sillier than a a Duran Duran of a Hanson song when it comes down to it.

YouTuber and maker William Osman asks a simple question that nobody was asking… “How many chairs is too many chairs?” Not only does it quickly answer that question, but also “How many chairs is too many for William Osman to move on his own?”