Using nanolithography, Dr. Kelly Morrison and her team at Loughborough University in Leicestershire, England have created the world’s smallest violin, measuring only 35 microns long and 13 microns wide. For reference, the average width of a human hair is about 50 microns. Damn, that’s one small violin! Unfortunately it’s not
Because the internet, just like an unruly 3-year old, refuses to sleep when it should, this is a video from the Bell Bros of Sesame Street’s Big Bird (plus Count von Count) edited into Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 avian horror film The Birds. The whole thing is set to Outkast’s 2000
This is a video of the custom plasma speakers built by engineer Fabricio H. Franzoli from two CRT television flyback transformers playing the classic Popeye theme. Now those are some sexy speakers. I thought my Yamahas were nice, but they don’t look anything like two robot nipples shooting musical lightning.
This is a clip edited together by the Bell Brothers (previously) featuring Mrs. Doubtfire dancing with her vacuum and broom in a variety of other movies. Now this — this is the exactly the internet I was hoping to see when I logged onto AOL this morning. Everything else I’ve
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the original Red Dead Redemption release (where has the time gone?), this is a video of Rob Wiethoff, who portrayed protagonist John Marston, playing the game for the first time. After two hours of watching him accidentally pull his gun on innocent townfolk while
In speed doggin’ news, all six active Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles raced around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway last weekend as part of the Indy 500 festivities. Is anybody else shocked and outraged there’s more than one Wienermobile? I saw one once IRL but who cares, it’s not even special anymore. This
Note: Volume on. Because everyone exercises differently (I work out vicariously through the people running at the park while I lie in the grass playing a Candy Crush knockoff and sipping cocktails out of an insulated tumbler), this is a video of a man in China’s Sichuan province performing what
Because everyone has a secret skill, this is a video of Chinese TikTok (Douyin) user 43444719487 patiently and smoothly sorting black and white rice with a pair of chopsticks. It was oddly satisfying to watch, and clearly they have some rice sorting experience under their belt if their technique and