The Comfort Wipe: Because You Need to Wipe your Butt with Dignity
You’d think that this could only be a Saturday Night Live spoof, but rest assured my friends, it is not, as sad as that is. [Via BoingBoing]
Category Archives: General
Mosquito Attack! – Interesting Facts About Mosquitoes
Since summertime is fast approaching and mosquitoes have just started harassing us northerners, here are a few interesting facts you might want to know about the little pests. The moral behind this video? If you’re a blonde girl who has stinky feet and are planning a camping trip during a full moon right in the […]
US to Launch Chemical Attack on Canadian Air Force
Officials in New York are to launch a gas attack on as many as 2,000 Canadian geese in an attempt to prevent a repetition of the incident in January when a plane ditched in the Hudson river. The hunt, begins some time in the next week to coincide with the time of year that the […]
Girl Breaks Up with T-Rex Boyfriend
This clip gives a few good reasons why a romantic relationship between a human being and a dinosaur is just not a good idea. [Via Korben.info (French)]
Amazing Tilt-Shift Video of Swiss Landscape and Trains
An absolutely stunning tilt-shift video of various trains passing through the Swiss villages of Sisikon and Göschenen. This project was filmed by Andi Leemann and Jeri Peier using two EOS 5D Mark II cameras, a Canon 90mm TS-E f/2.8 and a Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 combined with a 1.4x converter. [Via Videosift]
Ames Window Optical Illusion
An Ames Window is an object that looks like a rectangular window, but in reality, is a trapezoid. As the window rotates on a vertical axis, it first looks to be going in a certain direction, but after turning 180 degrees, it gives the illusion of stopping and reversing its course. Observe as the rod […]
Sims 3: A Closer Look
Given the response to our review of Sims 3 from the other day, I decided to dig through the screenshots I’ve been collecting to give you a closer look at the some of the neat (or just pretty) things in the game. These are all from my personal gameplay, not official promotional shots from EA. […]
Deadline: A Post-it Stop-Motion Short
Produced by Bang-yao Liu as a senior project for his degree at Savannah’s College of Art and Design, Deadline is a 1:54-minute short featuring Bang-yao’s thought process as he is busy meeting his various work deadlines.
New Element in Search of a Name
Officials have agreed to add a new element to the periodic table. But they won’t do so until the team which discovered it comes up with a permanent name. The element will become the 112th to appear on the table (in the gap below mercury), as determined by the International Union of Pure and Applied […]
Brute Force ATM Attack
The security gurus among you will probably assume that we’re talking about cracking into an ATM via some kind of custom hardware and software solution here (à la John Connor.) But no, in this case, brute force truly means brute force. Check it out: [Via Gizmodo]