From People are Awesome:
Here are the very best videos we featured in 2017! Huge thanks to everyone who submitted videos, and to Thirty Seconds to Mars for the perfect soundtrack – Walk on Water!
Star Wars Theme Performed on Calculators
The force is strong in this man…
How the end of net neutrality could change the internet
The Federal Communications Commission has voted to repeal the Net Neutrality protections it adopted in 2015. Here’s what that means for the future of the internet.
[Vox]
WANT: Rick and Morty Meeseeks Molded Mug
What’s in the box? Your own personal Meeseeks Box! Er… Mug!
Molded in the shape of the Meeseeks Box, this mug comes with a removable lid – and inside there’s a little Mr. Meeseeks peeking out, waiting to complete a task! Existence is painful to Mr. Meeseeks, which we totally get. We also find existence painful when we haven’t had enough java. So let him hang out in his box and fill it with 20 oz. of your favorite caffeine sauce. Everybody wins!
This is the creature the mug refers to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12ZE3bmhZpg
Me vs. Me [Comic]
Gorgeous Hand Blown Glass Solar System Christmas Tree Ornaments
Sure, those might be a little pricey, but they are absolutely gorgeous and are hand-made by an actual artist.
A Saturn that actually LOOKS like Saturn, with Cassini data used to etch the rings! A Sun with sunspots! Earth and Mars with clouds and polar caps, Jupiter with a red spot, and I include Pluto, just because! Very cool!! And with a loop on the top to hang on your tree. I like to hang these in the window during non-Christmas months. The sunlight coming through them is amazing! I hand blow these ornaments myself. Ornament size is about 2″ for the small ones, up to 4 inches, and Saturn has the rings about 4.5″. With the rings, the ornament is heavier than my others and may be too heavy for little trees. All of the ornaments are thicker than cheap breakable ones, and have been crash tested by my cats to be able to withstand normal handling and last a lifetime as heirloom pieces.
[Blown Glass Solar System Ornament Set, 9 Planets with Sun!]
What Keeps You Going… [Comic]
Avengers: Infinity War Gets a Fan-Made Retro Trailer [Video]
The Avengers and their Super Hero allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation puts an end to the universe.
Burt Reynolds as Iron Man
Reb Brown as Captain America
Peter Hooten as Dr. Strange
Nicholas Hammond as Spider-man
Julius Carry as Black Panther
Max von Sydow as Thanos
Lou Ferrigno as Hulk
David Hasselhoff as Nick Fury
Jean-Claude Van Damme as Winter Soldier
Eric Allan Kramer as Thor
Eddie Murphy as Falcon
Brent Spiner as Vision
Leonora Ruffo as Black Widow
Jessica Walter as Scarlet Witch
Chuck Norris as Punisher
Black Kamen Rider as Ant Man
Ed Gale as Howard the Duck
Dennis Quaid as Starlord
Louis Gossett Jr as Drax
Susan Oliver as Gamora
Dick Durock as Groot
Alf as Rocket Racoon
Alex Hyde-White as Dr. Reed Richards
Jay Underwood as Johnny Storm
Rebecca Staab as Susan Storm
Carl Ciarfalio as Thing
Building Kylo Ren’s LEGO Star Wars Tie fighter with the FORCE [Stop Motion Video]
Get ready for STAR WARS “The Last Jedi” by watching Kylo Ren’s LEGO tie fighter come to life with the use of the force / stop motion animation !
Amazon And Google Start Playing Nice
Amazon has decided to sell the Chromecast and Apple TV for the first time in two years. The move suggests Google’s blocking of YouTube on some Fire devices was a successful negotiating strategy.
Last week Google announced it would pull YouTube from the full range of Fire TV sticks from January 1, as well as disabling a workaround for an existing block on the Echo Show (a version of the Echo speaker with a small screen.) It was surprisingly open about the fact it was a retaliation for Amazon not only refusing to sell several Google products including the Chromecast, but also preventing third party sellers from doing so on the Amazon Marketplace section. It explicitly connected the YouTube block to this “lack of reciprocity”.
Amazon has now added product listing pages for the Chromecast and Chromecast Ultra as well as several Apple TV devices. (Amazon recently convinced Apple to carry its Prime Video app on the devices, which may explain this change.) It’s confirmed it will start selling the devices.
Google hasn’t yet said if it will overturn the YouTube blocks, but issued a generic statement about “productive discussions.”
Several gaps still remain in the Apple-Amazon-Google triangle such as Amazon not selling the Google Home speaker or Amazon Video not having a native Chromecast link, but hopefully this is a step towards the tech giants realizing that blocking services or refusing to stock products undermines the entire smart tech and streaming market.