Because Halloween is just a week away, what better way to celebrate than…uh, a jet-powered coffin car? Let’s roll with it. Built by Robert ‘Rocket Man’ Maddox (previously), he nicknamed the dead pirate themed pulsejet powered death trap ‘The Halloween Machine’. I want it. Plus if I crash and die
Note: If you’re looking for some bitchin’ desktop backgrounds you can get super high-res versions of the Hubble’s 1995 image HERE, 2004 image HERE, and James Webb’s most recent shot HERE. Now let’s play space rangers! The Pillars of Creation, made famous by the Hubble Space Telescope’s 1995 and 2004
Designed, crafted, and sold by Etsy shop Leatherhead Laser Work (beware of knock-offs!), this Advent calendar features Hans Gruber falling from the top of Nakatomi Plaza, reaching the ground on Christmas Day. Available in wood and acrylic plastic models, prices range from around $46 to $55. Plus Hans is magnetic
Because dream it and you can achieve it (in this case through trial-and-error), this is a video of Joseph of Joseph’s Machines and his friends being fed a five course meal by a conveyor belt powered Rube Goldberg machine. It’s pretty awesome, and if I could be fed all my
Presumably because what else is there to do in rural France besides live your dream life and eat delicious, locally sourced food, this is a video from the Laguiole AOP Festival held near the Aubrac Plateau in Aveyron of a stretchy cheese competition. In this video, a cheesemaker’s Aligot de
In honor of the playoffs (which unfortunately the Cubs aren’t participating in this year), this is a beautiful drone fly-through of Wrigley Field. It starts outside in the neighborhood surround the park, flying through bars, then into the stadium, then back outside, then through the clubhouse and locker room, then
Because drinking on the go is the only way to drink as far as I’m concerned (I’m a mover and a shaker, or at least a wiggler and a jiggler), Franzia is selling the $50 Box Wine Backpack, a backpack that’s perfectly sized for a box of their finest vino,
This is a video of Jack Black participating in a TrinityKids Care (a Los Angeles based hospice that specializes in pediatric care for children with life-limiting illnesses) event and serenading young Abraham with his favorite song (‘In The End Of Time’), from his favorite movie, School Of Rock. That was