According to this NES Tetris game manual that Twitter user vecchitto dug up, these are the names of the various Tetris blocks. And here I’ve been calling them L and backwards L blocks, when they’re actually Blue and Orange Rickys! I should have known. Hero and Smashboy are definitely the

Not unlike the skywriting planes that use a similar technique to create strips of letters, maker of things Ryder Damen went and modded his truck to spray jets of water to print letters on the ground as he drives around like a giant dot-matrix printer. That’s cool. I want mine

This is a video of musician The Kiffness (previously) turning the audio of a cat named George Rufus who appears to say “Sometimes I’m alone. Hello? Sometimes I’m not” into a sad little song about loneliness. There’s nothing sadder than a sad cat, and a song about a sad cat

This a clip of 14-year old Dev Shah clenching victory in the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling ‘psammophile’ (pronounced sam-a-file, a plant or animal that prefers or thrives in sandy areas). He knew from the very start that he had it. Way to go, Dev. For reference,

These are two videos of British actress and accent vocal coach Sarah Valentine performing the same lines (“You’re grounded,” and “You can’t park there”) in 20 different accents, with what I assume are the appropriate accompanying faces. She’s good. So, which was your favorite? And how much would it cost

This is the entirety of The Clash’s 1979 album London Calling, but nothing but the lead vocals, as isolated by recording engineer ieatmdf. Wait — medium-density fibreboard? That can’t be a healthy diet. If you’re a Clash fan the video is definitely worth a listen — I particularly liked hearing

This is a video from SiriusXM of Howard Stern having comedian and Howard Stern impersonator Matt Friend on his show. He’s not much of a convincing Howard visually even with the cheap costume, but he sure does sound like him. If he called me I would definitely think it was

This is a clip from a 2011 episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in which a contestant (who already used all three lifelines in the firsts four questions) is asked which planet out of four was derived from Greek mythology instead of Roman. While talking out her answer,