This is a video of Youtuber Skramblez riding the Super Mario 64 Peach’s Castle level he constructed with the custom park creator tool in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2. In Skramblez own words: “My most ambitious custom park so far… the iconic Peach’s Castle from Super Mario 64!
- October 30, 2020
This is a video demonstration of the one-way (it only goes down) cat elevator that a woman made for her cat to ride from one of the high rafters in her home back down to the ground. How cool is that? The elevator’s counterweight appears to be a precisely weighed
- October 30, 2020
This is a video of sculptor Steven Richter sculpting a Freddy Krueger bust over a plastic skeleton armature, then melting the whole thing with a heat gun. Like a Snickers when you’re hungry, it was very satisfying. Unlike a Snickers, this video wasn’t 280 calories and 25% my recommended daily
- October 29, 2020
This is the line of Play-Doh ‘Grown-Up Scents’ just released by Hasbro (Amazon product page HERE) to remind adults that we should all take some time out of our hectic schedules to to eat some modeling compound. Available in Overpriced Latte, Spa Day, Mom Jeans, Lord Of The Lawn, Grill
- October 29, 2020
These are the ‘Live Long And Prosper’ mittens hand-knit (from a soft wool/alpaca blend) and sold by Jennifer Symons of Etsy shop StorySweaters. A pair costs $35 and comes with one right Vulcan mitten with split fingers for Vulcan saluting, and one regular left mitten with non-split fingers for not
- October 29, 2020
This is a video from the Oregon Zoo of the park’s resident pachyderms smashing and eating some 1,200 pounds of pumpkins to celebrate the arrival of autumn. You know I actually did something similar on the very first day of fall to celebrate the changing of the season, but in
- October 29, 2020
This is Vino, a corkscrew/bottle opener combo designed by Adi Kafri for OTOTO Studio (available here on Amazon for $23) that looks like a little bat. The bat’s wings move up and down as a bottle is opened and the cork is pulled out. Speaking of — I think I’ll
- October 29, 2020
These are a few photographs from a shop in Japan where the owner had glass panels installed in the ceiling so the shop’s resident cats can watch shoppers, and vice-versa. A great idea, but are we sure the rest of those drop panels can support the weight of those cats?
- October 29, 2020
This is a short video from an aquarium where a sea lion does its best impression of Tom Hanks yelling after Wilson in Castaway. It does a fantastic job, and if I had any fish to toss to it I totally would. I don’t though, all I have is this
- October 29, 2020
Note: Watch at 2X speed, the video was slowed down to half speed during the upscaling process. This is the very first of Walt Disney Productions’ Silly Symphony shorts, ‘The Skeleton Dance’, originally released in 1929 that’s been upscaled to 4K resolution and 60 frames/second thanks to artificial intelligence technology
- October 29, 2020















