This is a commercial for the Yomega Brain yo-yo (Amazon ad link) aired during Saturday morning cartoons in the 90’s. It perfectly encapsulates the nineties in a now painful to watch 30-second ad. God, I was one of those kids. Toss in a kid with terrible hand-foot coordination playing hacky

This is a video of the Babyn Yar Synagogue opening up like a pop-up book. The synagogue, located in a wooded ravine in the west of Kyiv in Ukraine, was designed and constructed by Swiss-based Manuel Herz Architects (link to their website with a lot more detail) to commemorate the

This is a video of South Korean acapella quintet MayTree (previously) performing a brief history of Windows startup sounds, including such bangers as Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 10, and Windows 11. Which was your favorite? Mine has been and always will be Windows XP. As

LEGO has announced the release of it’s largest traditional building set to date — the 9,090 piece Titanic (previously: its 9,036-piece Roman Colosseum). The 1:200 scale ship measures a respectable 54″ long, 7″ wide, 18″ tall and breaks into three cross sections so you can see the various and inner

The bucket: we’re all going to kick it eventually. Well, you are, I’m– “You’re not an undead warlock.” I SAW ROME BUILT. But enough about it actually taking two days, this is a video from Overwords, a segment from PBS’s Storied featuring Dr. Erica Brozovsky taking us on a tour

This is some incredible footage from the innovative Lumiere Brothers in 1899 of a troupe of child acrobats in Paris performing some stunts, including a human pyramid and two members passing and juggling a small boy with their feet like he’s a sack of potatoes. The footage was colorized and

This is a video of Merry and Pippin actors Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd testing Lord Of The Rings superfan Stephen Colbert’s knowledge on the subject, with special guest Peter Jackson even making an appearance to ask a question. There’s no denying Stephen’s fandom, and he wins a special prize

This is a film believed to have been shot by early cinema pioneer Georges Méliès around the turn of the 20th century of the beaches of Normandy, France that’s been AI enhanced for your viewing pleasure. Some more details while I further zoom and enhance the footage myself looking for