This is a video of a pipe laborer in New Orleans demonstrating how a high pressure pipe can be repaired while running using a clamping metal sleeve with its own pressure release fitting, which can be closed once the collar is secured in place. Honestly, every time I think about

In what is arguably the most important time capsule of all time, TikTok user Sunday Nobody built and buried a 3,000-pound concrete sarcophagus not to be reopened for 10,000 years containing a single snack size bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos encased in resin for future civilizations to discover, and, presumably,

Built by LEGO fan Brandon Jones and displayed at the recent BrickCon 2022 in Seattle, this massive Super Mario Bros level features 14 motors to make the pieces really MOVE. And you know how I feel about moving. “You try to as little as possible throughout the day.” Fact! “And

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of mobile game Candy Crush Saga (and the ridiculous amount of money it’s made), King Digital Entertainment held a fair along the Hudson River in New York City, with a 500 drone light show finale inspired by the game. Damn, 10 years — have I

Because how are robots going to overthrow humanity if we don’t make them tough, harbingers of the apocalypse IHMC Robotics has conspired with Boardwalk Robotics to develop a Nadia humanoid robot capable of maintaining its balance after getting shoved on a treadmill. Yeah, make it resilient then piss it off!

This is a short video of a man turning an empty Jack Daniels bottle into a gin glass. Wow, drinking gin out of a whiskey bottle, is nothing sacred? Just how drunk are you? Honestly, I’m not sure why anybody would want to drink gin out of anything — gin

This is a video from Thomas Edison’s motion picture studio of the first ever copyrighted film, The Blacksmith Shop, filmed by Edison’s assistant W.K.L. Dickson, and delivered to the Library of Congress for copyrighting in August of 1893. Granted it’s not a particularly exciting film, but historic nonetheless. Ah, August,

This is a heartwarming video from The Dodo highlighting the life of Grace, who lives with eight rescue dachshunds. She even takes them all to a drive-through carwash where they have a little wiener rave in the car, complete with light show and glow necklaces. So, if you were wondering

New York City 1, a 1942 piece by famed abstract artist Piet Mondrian, was unknowingly hung upside down (left) at its initial public display in 1945 (Mondrian died in 1944), and has been rehung the same way ever since. Well that’s embarrassing. Get it together, art nerds, those art history

This is another compilation video created by Trekkie John DiMarco (previously), this time featuring Star Trek clips that include the phrase “Klingons do not…” and variations thereof. Apparently Klingons don’t actually do a lot of things. I suppose that makes me more Klingon than I’d previously thought, because I hardly