This is Oxford University sociology graduate student Sarah Brand’s ‘Red Dress’, a song she wrote and performs along with an accompanying music video she also directed, produced, choreographed, and edited. It’s, uh, it’s a banger. I mean provided you believe everyone with the courage to sing karaoke deserves a record
- July 28, 2021
This is some Ring doorbell cam footage of a recycling truck eating a family’s recycling bin, presumably after deeming the bin itself suitable for recycling. Me? I’m never sure if I’m supposed to put my yogurt cups in the recycling or not. It looks like the truck actually malfunctioned based
- July 28, 2021
This is ‘Friends (but Ross has schizophrenia)’, an edit created by Youtuber Urpoliitikko by removing the rest of the cast, reimagining the series as just Ross talking to himself the whole time. You know NBC could have saved a fortune if they’d just run with this idea instead of having
- July 28, 2021
This is a 1977 television commercial for the original Star Wars film focusing on the romance between Luke and Leia. In hindsight it seems super creepy, but Luke and Leia being siblings was never part of George Lucas’s plan when the movie was made. Or even when The Empire Strikes
- July 28, 2021
Because The Dude abides, this is the 1/6 scale Jeffrey ‘The Dude’ Lebowski figure created and sold by Sideshow Collectibles. The Dude stands 12-inches tall on a base featuring his coveted rug’s pattern, and includes a white v-neck t-shirt, sweater, pants (they should have gone with his patterned pajama bottoms),
- July 28, 2021
Because nothing quite says gangster’s dreamworld like a resonant transformer producing high-voltage, low-current, high-frequency alternating-current electricity, this is a video of Coolio’s 1995 banger ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ performed by a trio of Tesla Coils. Damn, that came out in 1995? Feels like it was just yesterday, doesn’t it? “Not at all.”
- July 27, 2021
This is a video demonstration of a driveway turntable (aka car turntable), designed to be able to turn a car 180-degrees so you can pull forward into and out of a driveway with no need to reverse onto the street. The car turntable was inspired by railroad turntables, which were
- July 27, 2021
This is a video of Mark Rober discussing and demonstrating the five-years-in-the-making robot he and his team built that’s capable of setting up a record-breaking 100,000 dominos in 24 hours. For reference, it takes an experienced team of seven a full week to set up the same number of dominos,
- July 27, 2021













