This is a video captured by the kind folks of the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center Veterinary Hospital in Roanoke of a female opossum growling, presumably upset about having to take a trip to the doctor. I’m right there with you, Ms. Opossum, I growl the entire time until I get
This is a video of mad engineer Shane of Youtube channel Stuff Made Here (previously) attaching a chainsaw to an industrial robotic arm and programming it to carve a dog sculpture out of a block of foam. Its first effort is an absolute disaster, but the second dog it produces
This is a very appropriate sounding bardcore cover of REM’s 1991 banger ‘Losing My Religion’, performed by Algal The Bard (previously). The bardcore version works very well, and if I were listening to this in a medieval tavern I wouldn’t hesitate to toss a silver coin into Algal’s lute case,
This is a Great Big Story about Terry “Turbo” Burrows, the world’s fastest window cleaner. It’s actually a pretty interesting watch, and includes Terry detailing his daily regimen of getting up, drinking four cups of coffee, playing video games, then practicing cleaning a window he set up in his shed.
This is a video of Theo Jansen’s latest Strandbeest: a caterpillar that’s pulled behind another wind-powered mechanical sculpture, inch-worming its way across the sand. Could you imagine if you were enjoying a pleasant beach day and a Strandbeest walked by? That would be wild. Even wilder if it tried to
Set up by the University of Minnesota’s Voyageurs Wolf Project, a trailcam recently captured footage of a rare black wolf in the area. According to the International Wolf Center (which is a real thing that exists, unlike the International Cougar Database I wish existed when I was still young and
This is a short home security cam clip of a boy trying to rush inside and lock his younger brother out of the house (classic older brother!) when the young ninja tosses his jacket into the door before it closes, preventing it from being locked. Based on his finely honed
This is a video of a cleverly designed Japanese condiment packet that dispenses both ketchup and mustard in equal parts simultaneously. I always knew I could count on Japan for this sort of innovation. Granted, rarely do I want equal parts of ketchup and mustard on anything. I’m usually 2/3s
