This is a video of Youtuber Mattias Krantz attempting to teach an octopus named Tako to play the piano over the course of six months. That’s a long time. Like a quarter of an octopus’s life. If I spent a quarter of my life trying to learn something, I’d like

This is a looooong clip of Youtuber Emulated Vintage Gaming taking a 10-hour walk from the Shire to Mordor in The Lord Of The Rings Online, tracing Frodo’s steps as close to Tolkien’s legendarium as possible, accompanied by passages from The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The

This is a video highlighting the 130-long garden tunnel grown by horticulturist Steve Mills, which features plums, peaches, apples, pumpkins, and pears growing on all sides and overhead. How about that — just reach in any direction and there’s something to eat! It’s not unlike my desk in that regard.

This is a fascinating video of Youtuber pannenkoek experimenting to determine if you can collect any stars in Super Mario 64 by only pressing a single button and not using the joystick. The answer? Yes. In fact he’s able to collect three stars that way. FULL DISCLOSURE: he does play

Because music is all around us (except at work, we’re not allowed to listen to music at work), this is a video of Luke Pickman of InstrumentManiac playing the C major scale on 123 instruments in 123 seconds. The video is exactly 2:03 long too so I think he nailed

These are a couple videos highlighting the journey of father/son team Mike and Luke Bell as they attempt to reclaim the world record for fastest quadrocopter drone after their record was snatched from them last year. There’s a lot of interesting discussion about the engineering and testing of the drone,

This is a video of a man spinning himself into the Matrix on a piece of playground equipment. We didn’t have that particular apparatus on my school playground growing up. We had seesaws, swings, a jungle gym, a metal slide that squeaked the skin right off your legs as you

This is a clip of the 2025 World Championship of Shoe Shining, in which three finalists had 20 minutes to shine a pair of Bridlen Straight Tip Oxfords to as close to a mirror-finish as possible. Each was allowed a selection of Saphir Médaille d’Or waxes, brushes, and cloths, and