Not unlike the skywriting planes that use a similar technique to create strips of letters, maker of things Ryder Damen went and modded his truck to spray jets of water to print letters on the ground as he drives around like a giant dot-matrix printer. That’s cool. I want mine
- June 22, 2023
The same reason anybody else dances: because they’re wasted. Or you can read this recently published long-winded academic paper detailing the physics involved in dancing beer nuts. Basically, as the beer degasses the bubbles adhere to the nuts, lifting them to the surface, the bubbles pop, and the nuts sink
- June 22, 2023
This is a 5K, 60FPS ride in the front row of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Shellraiser roller coaster at the Nickelodeon Universe amusement park in New Jersey. The coaster’s most unique feature is a steeper-than-straight-down 121.5-degree drop (seen at 2:00 in the video), that would almost certainly have me
- June 22, 2023
This is a video from Architecture Digest of Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig providing a tour of the Barbie dreamhouse set, and all the thought and consideration that went into building it. Dang, now I really want to see the movie. When does it come out? We should start camping
- June 22, 2023
This is a video from a Holiday Inn in San Jose, California of a thieving couple using a Lock Monkey style under-the-door lever opener to try to gain access to one of the rooms after knocking to make sure nobody was home (the woman in the room saw them through
- June 21, 2023
This is a video from the Mala Mala Game Reserve in South Africa of a troop of baboons avoiding a pride of lions by hiding underneath the bridge the lions are traveling across. Smart. Me? I hide from lions by living 10,200 miles away from most of them. It’s been
- June 21, 2023
Cast some 3,000 years ago (~1450 BC) in the Middle Bronze Age likely near what’s now Nördlingen, Germany, this bronze sword was recently unearthed in exceptional quality. Shoot, I’d still quest with it. Its preservation is due in part to the naturally antimicrobial copper salts in the sword, and the
- June 21, 2023
This is a video from a recent Indiana State vs Iowa college baseball game in which an Indiana State outfielder pretends to catch a Iowa batter’s home run ball, convincing him enough that the hitter stops running and begins to walk off the field. As he does, his teammates urge
- June 21, 2023
Because everybody wants to be the next Blue Man Group, this is a video of Japanese band BOZESTYLE performing The Imperial March via buttons attached to their bald heads (with the addition of some mannequins). That’s something. Maybe not something I’d pay $80 to see in Vegas, but only because
- June 20, 2023
This is a video of Slow Mo Guys Gav and Dan crashing extremely powerful neodymium magnets into one another, and capturing their destruction at 187,000 frames/second. It doesn’t even look real, it looks like the sort of CGI I’d expect to see in a Transformers movie in 20 years. Such
- June 20, 2023















