Because teamwork makes the dream work (or so I’ve heard — all my team projects in school usually failed and I got accusatory peer-evaluations), this is a short video of a group of turtles coming to the rescue of another that’s found itself floundering upside-down in a pond. Did Michelangelo
- March 18, 2024
Because when in doubt, smack it with a hammer (that’s one of my mottos), this is a video of authorities at a school in China breaking smartphones to warn students not to use the devices on campus. Apparently students have to turn in their phones when they reach school grounds,
- March 18, 2024
This is a delightful little compilation of people getting tricked by a haunted doll prank in which somebody manipulates a doll or stuffed animal with fishing line, much to the horror of their prankee. That lady who fell out of her chair and smashed a table and performed the sign
- March 18, 2024
From ruiner/occasional improver of songs There I Ruined It (previously), this is a video of Six Mix-A-Lot’s ‘Baby Got Back’ reimagined in the style of Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘The Sound Of Silence’ (with bonus Black Eyed Peas ‘My Humps’ at the end). Does it still deliver? Yes. UNLIKE MY FAVORITE
- March 15, 2024
Seen here doing her best Fantastic Ms. Fox impression, this is a clip of Richmond Wildlife Center executive director Melissa Stanley nursing an orphaned baby fox while wearing a fox mask so that the animal feels safe and doesn’t imprint on humans. That way it can later be released back
- March 15, 2024
Happy Pi Day (3.14)! I’m going to have a berry cobbler for dessert tonight, which, while technically not pie, is my favorite and close enough, even if it is a rectangle. This is a video of some folks visually demonstrating pi using the pizza crust from one pizza and four
- March 14, 2024
This is a video of the Rockin’ 1000 performing Blur’s ‘Song 2’ in Paris. Do they do it justice? I don’t know, I feel like having ALL those instruments and voices performing simultaneously kind of washed the song out and left it without its original zest. Also, everybody looks really
- March 14, 2024
This is some footage from a manned research submarine investigating the life around a methane seep off the coast of Costa Rica when it encountered a new species (Pectinereis strickrotti) of deep sea worm, that appear to swim almost as if they’re magic carpets. Freaky! Per submarine pilot Bruce Strickrott,
- March 14, 2024