This is a video of a small flashmob performing Nirvana’s 1991 banger of bangers ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ at a European railway station. Obviously, the woman who requests the song at the beginning is in on the mob, but the rest of the travelers at the station were not. As far as these sorts of videos go, I did enjoy this one (although I could have done without all the text over the video), but I’m generally not a fan of flash mobs because they combine two things I can’t stand: suddenness, and large groups of people. I prefer slow alones.

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Thanks to my dad, who I remember bought ‘Nevermind’ when it came out in ’91.

These are two videos of the world’s first successful frontside and backside 2160s (six full rotations) on a snowboard. The backside (rotating clockwise if you’re riding with your left foot forward) 2160 was accomplished by Japanese teen snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara in 2023 (he was 16 at the time). The frontside was performed by Italian Ian Matteoli last year. Just look at all those spins! For reference, I broke my arm snowboarding attempting a measly 360 when I was 17. Then I rebroke it skateboarding the following spring trying to ollie over my recycling bin in the driveway. Thank God I’m not a carpenter! Get it? “Because you’re terrible with boards.” There’s no way I’d still have any fingers.

Because even a hundred wrongs don’t make a right, these are two videos of a man getting his truck towed in Brooklyn for parking in a tow zone, starting just after he tried driving his vehicle off the back of the tow arm. After that failed, he tries to fight the tow truck driver, then steals the tow truck, crashing into every car parked on the right side of the block, before making a turn and completely rolling his truck off the back of the tow. I’m sure Farmers has seen this before, they know a thing or two. The man, who fled the scene, has since been identified and arrested, and charged with second degree robbery, grand larceny auto, two counts of reckless endangerment, and 11 counts of property damage and leaving the scene of an accident, the penalty for which I hope is being forced to make an impossible jump over a volcano in his totaled Chevy.

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This is a short security cam video that captured the end life cycle of a road sign, from initial accident (sideswiped by a bus) to eventual death (drunk man breaking post, carrying pole away). That poor sign — you almost feel bad for it. Then you remember it’s just a street sign and has no feelings, and you feel even worse because you know it never got to experience love.

The lifecycle of a road sign
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Thanks to my dad, who agrees at least it wasn’t a stop sign.

This is ‘Nanoscapes’ a short video shot by Kristina Dutton featuring butterfly wings captured with an electron microscope at magnifications up to 50,000X. That’s some series magnification. Most of the time I wasn’t even sure what I was looking at. “Butterfly wings.” I like you, I really do, but you do make it hard sometimes. I remember in middle school my science teacher had us scrape the filth from underneath our fingernails then we all took turns examining it under a microscope. “I’ve seen worse,” I said when it was my turn, licking the sticky off my fingers from the Jolly Rancher I found on the floor.

This is an Instagram video of a man constructing a “quick and easy” carnival style spinning ride in his backyard using a tree and some lumber (which was also once trees). The ride features seating for four, and is powered by spinning the riders around the tree to build tension in the rope before setting them loose. That’s fun. It doesn’t really appear to spin that fast, but based on the way those riders are screaming, I’m going to assume it’s more thrilling than it looks. Or they’re all six White Claws deep.

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