This is a video from Slow Mo Guys Gav and Dan, who teamed up with funlovers Aussies Brett and Scott of How Ridiculous (when Youtube worlds collide!) to fire a bowling ball out of a cannon at 400MPH and directly into a realistic ballistics head, complete with skull. After watching
These are several photos and videos of the Halloween display created by some homeowners in East Aurora, New York, featuring a giant spider on a boom that appears to crawl down a 3-story web to the yard below. For reference, I have several pumpkins, a hay bale, and some dried
Because Halloween is time for smashing pumpkins (Billy Corgan, let’s ride!), this is a video of hippos at the Cincinnati Zoo chomping pumpkins whole. There’s also some footage of painted dogs (aka African wild dogs, not dogs that have been painted — playing poker or otherwise) enjoying some pumpkin fun.
This is a video of someone’s DIY Halloween decorations, which use a bed sheet, two lights, and a fan in each window to create the illusion that the whole house is ablaze. And while there’s no denying it’s a cool effect, there’s also no denying 911 is going to be
This is a video of a cleverly assembled invisible man Halloween costume that you can make yourself on the cheap. I can’t see his face! I also can’t see any way to drink a cocktail while wearing it, which is a major drawback. Can’t be bothered to actually make a
This is a video from a depth of 3,300 meters (10,827 feet — more than 2 miles) in the Tonga Trench (the second deepest trench behind the Mariana) between new Zealand and Fiji of a rarely seen Bigfin squid (misnomer, should have been named Longleg Squid) trolling its 13-foot tentacles
Just in time for spooky season comes the announcement of a new species of ‘ghost shark’ (actually a chimaera or spookfish, but closely related to sharks and rays), found in the ocean depths off Australia and New Zealand. Looking suspiciously like Zero from The Nightmare Before Christmas, the ocean ghost
This is a video of a fluffy white cat and fluffy white hamster being treated to a gourmet meal of fish and shrimp and other niblets atop a glass coffee table, and being filmed from below. Just look at all those little toe pads! Surprisingly, the cat spends most of