34 years after the game’s debut, the original Tetris for the NES has officially been “beat” by a human (it was previously only beat by AI), with 13-year old Blue Scuti breaking the game (it reaches a freezing killscreen) during a semi-finals match of the 2023 Classic Tetris World Championship

Released by HBO Max to remind you they have the majority of Studio Ghibli’s feature films available on their streaming service, this is a 30-minute Youtube ‘screensaver’ of relaxing animations from various Ghibli movies. It is max level chill, possibly even an 11. And I thought falling asleep to that

As a good riddance to 2023 *spits for dramatic effect, hits pant leg*, this is a 32-minute compilation of news bloopers from the year. There are some goodies in there. There are also some not-so-goodies. Still, it’s a great way to waste 30 minutes at the office like I just

This is an almost 100 year old clip from Los Angeles that’s been AI upscaled, enhanced, and colorized so it doesn’t look like it was filmed through a potato sack. I lived in LA for ten years, and I have to admit: I didn’t recognize any of it. Of course

After seven years of construction, artist Robert Wechsler has finally completed assembly of a giant cube made from 100,000 pennies. Each individual penny has four notches cut from its sides at 90-degree angles so they could be assembled K’Nex style into sheets, then stacked into this 540-pound cube. Damn, 100,000

This is a video of a golden retriever living its best life (I’m glad somebody is) by happily sliding down a ski slope, appropriately set to Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Dreams’. That looks nice. I wish I was experiencing the human equivalent to what this dog must be feeling right now. Mine

Five years in the making, this is ‘Winter’, a timelapse video beautifully shot by filmmaker Jamie Scott over the course of five winter seasons in New York and Montreal, Canada; with up to six cameras and four sliders at a time. It features a lot of snow and natural water

These are a couple videos of Ryan Randomness riding the homemade railcar he built along lengths of abandoned tracks in California, Arizona, and other parts of the American southwest. Admittedly, it looks like a good time. But maybe that has something to do with my fantasies of being a cowboy.