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 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.
This is a video of Tom BetGeorge’s 2020 Halloween light and music display, this time choreographed to Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’. Some of those light effects really are nuts. You just have to watch it, even if you skip around, because no screencap can really do it justice. So — you
Because dream it and you can achieve it (no matter how asinine), this is a video of a man balancing on a balance board while simultaneously punch-ballooning with his mouth. Not bad, but until he can also master a paddle-ball in each hand while balancing above a kiddie pool filled
This is a video clip from Italian show ‘Lo Show dei Record’ of Dmitri Panciera setting the new Guinness World Record for most ice cream scoops balanced on a single cone with a diameter no greater than 9.5cm (3.74-inches) for ten seconds, with a very respectable 125 small scoops. For
This is a Guinness World Record video about 17-year old Maci Currin, who recently claimed the record for longest legged female. Maci, who stands 6-feet 10-inches tall (~210cm), has legs that measure 134cm and 135cm long (~53-inches, 4’5″). Holy smokes! For reference *checking jean tag while I sit on toilet*
This is a short video tour of the Star Trek themed man cave theater that Phil Stiller constructed in his basement. I especially like the hidden door, followed by the futuristic pocket door. The interior includes some Star Trek and space memorabilia, a small bar, theater seating for four, and,