This is a video of a trained vulture landing on the selfie stick of paragliding instructor Scott Mason while parahawking (a discipline he developed back in 2001), a real activity that exists combining paragliding and falconry, in which a trained bird of prey leads a paraglider to thermal updraft columns
This is a video of Youtuber Equalo’s quest to run Doom on a Raspberry Pi powered entirely by potatoes. He fails (the Raspberry Pi needed more amperage than the potatoes produced), but then he uses his giant 700-piece rotting potato battery to successfully run the game on a TI-84 graphing
Because what kind of company are you if you can’t use a pandemic to promote your product, Hormel is giving away Black Label Bacon scented face masks. You can enter the contest HERE if you want to receive weekly email reminders to eat Hormel food products despite thinking you opted
Who puts their pants on two legs at a time? Mr. Clean apparently. Well, with the help of a swing set and two assistants, which has to make for a rather awkward morning routine, particularly if Mr. Clean doesn’t own his own playground. These are three videos of professional stuntman
Because who has the space for a whole tree, this is ‘The Against The Wall Christmas Tree’ available from purveyor of things nobody really needs Hammacher Schlemmer for $250. It’s available pre-lit with all white lights or multicolored. Would a full tree cost $500? We may never know. Or care.
These are four videos (to prove it’s a learned behavior and not just a one-time occurrence) of a hungry cat removing a landline phone from its cradle (Cat’s In The Cradle! — hit it, Harry Chapin) so it starts making the off-hook tone as a sort of makeshift alarm clock
In sweet jeans news, this is a video of Yotuber Mad Russian Scientist demonstrating the fastest way to empty a narrow-necked liquid filled container without cutting in half with a ninja sword or smashing it with a hammer — by swirling the bottle first to create a vortex inside. This
This is a short and sweet video of Pax answering a money counting math problem about Jayden’s current financial situation. Some more info while I fondly remember all the plastic pennies and nickels I ate while learning money counting in eighth grade: “Pax was doing math in homeschool where they’re