Children: it’s fun to pretend they’re just tiny old people which is really what they are so it isn’t even that hard to pretend. You could have the worst imagination and it would still be easy. Enter the False Teether from Fred and available from Firebox. It’s a teething ring

This is a video of acrobat Jacob Grégoire and company performing a fun hoop diving routine. While I did notice a few hoop touches that I have no choice but to deduct points for, overall it was quite impressive. You know, I wish I’d pursued gymnastics and acrobatics when I

Salami: it’s the new Fruit By The Foot. This is the 3.5 meter (~11.5-foot) Die Wurstkabeltrommel (“sausage cable drum”) available from German specialty food retailer Jungborn. The Krakow-style (spicy with a firm bite) salami hose costs €17 (~$21) and has an exposed shelf life of 8 weeks. 8 weeks —

Because nothing goes better with coal than a colorless, flavorless candy cane, this is the Bah, Humbug Candy Cane available from Archie McPhee. The 10.25-inch cane weighs 3.1-ounces and is void of “flavor, stripes, and Christmas Spirit.” They cost $4.50 apiece, which is a little bit more than I was

This is a video of Japanese Buddhist monk and musician Kossan1108 covering Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’ with traditional percussion instruments. He also sings, which I was not expecting. The video is almost ten minutes long, but the song is only the first five. After that is five minutes of Kossan meditating.

This is a video of Polish composer Karol Szymanowski’s Etude in B-flat minor for piano being performed instead on glass harp by Anna and Arkadiusz Szafraniec and theremin by Grégoire Blanc. It’s got a real other-worldly sound to it, like the sort of thing you’d expect to hear when being

Remember that deepfake of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone in Step Brothers made by Brian Monarch? Of course you don’t, that was all the way back in October. What are we, elephants? Well this is that video, but with voice actor Joe Gaudet performing Schwarzenegger and Stallone voiceovers. The result?

This is a short timelapse of a cat exploring the Cat Ark, a cardboard cat fort shaped like a dragon ‘with pull out stepping shelves, ramps, windows and teeth.’ How awesome would that look in my living room? “Forget about it.” Honey! Think about how much more the cats will