NOTE: I’m in Alabama visiting my family (and eating my weight in food) right now so things might be on the lighter side today and tomorrow, but I’ll do what I can and be back to my regularly scheduled nonsense on Thursday. This is a clip from Seinfeld night at

These are a couple videos highlighting the lives of 69-year-old funeral director Hisao Mitani and his 26-year old African spurred tortoise, Bon-Chan. The two have been together since Mitani’s wife found Bon-Chan in a pet shop 26 years ago, and since the tortoise was about 10 (and a decent size),

Because this is the internet and the internet will never stops internetting until I decide I’ve had enough and push the big red button (I get closer every day — recent afternoons I’ve even been lifting its clear plastic cover and caressing the button with my index finger), this is

Maker of period accurate medieval weaponry (mostly swords, crossbows, and daggers), Tod of Tod’s Workshop went and constructed himself a trebuchet. And in this video he uses it to launch a packet of 100 darts (held together with a burning fuse so they disperse in the air) to see how

Remember the previously posted infinite LEGO domino loop machine? If I’m being honest, I only barely did. When I saw this video a dim light went off in the back of my brain, and I had to cautiously make my way towards it (keeping an eye out for where I

Because ‘I wonder what that would look like in ultra-slow motion’ is the name of the Slow Mo Guys’ very lucrative game, this is a video of tattoo guns doing their thing to transparent blocks of synthetic skin, filmed at 20,000 frames per second. It looks pretty much just how

This is a short video from photographer vato, whose wife allegedly changed his unlock screen to this (although the way she’s tucked into bed in the photos and laughs when he shows her I suspect it was actually he who did it). I like the clock behind the photo feature,

This is a video of Round Table, a kinetic sculpture created by South Korean artist U-ram Choe, where 18-headless straw figures appear to squat and stand to balance a single rubber band “head” on the table atop their backs, and prevent it from rolling off. Wow. Wow wow wow. This