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Meet Denzel, an adorable Labrador who lives in England and who absolutely loves dinosaurs. His human calls him a "Labraseal" because she thinks he looks just like a seal, and I have to admit, I definitely see the resemblance. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Denzel The Labraseal (@thelabraseal) I stumbled across this video of Denzel opening a present, and it...

¡Ole! If you wear red to one of André Rieu's concerts, prepare to be chased by a bull! In this clip from a show in Maastricht, Netherlands, you'll see a woman show the Dutch violinist and conductor that she's dressed entirely in red, all the way down to her bra. — Read the rest

This year, the prestigious Scripps National Spelling Bee championship title went to Dev Shah, a 14-year-old from Largo, Florida. Dev first accurately spelled words like "bathypitotmeter," "aegagrus," and "schistorrhachis" before winning the competition by spelling "psammophile"–a word of Greek origin that refers to organisms that live in or are adapted to sandy environments. — Read the rest

I had no idea that skydiving without a parachute  was possible, and thought this video was clickbait when I first saw its title. Turns out it is possible, and some people are fearless enough to try it. Skydiving sans parachute is possible when one person free falls for a while, and then gets caught by another skydiver who attaches a parachute to them mid-air....

In a new CBS Sunday Morning interview, Mark Hamill, who famously played Luke Skywalker, humorously referred to himself as an "elderly recluse." Speaking from his home in Malibu, the 71-year-old Star Wars actor candidly reflected on aging, "when you say your age out loud – 'cause I'm 71 – I go, Really?!? — Read the rest

The grave of Antoine Michel Wemaer, a merchant who turned to piracy in Brugge General Cemetery (also known as 'the cemetery of the skull'). He died in 1837. 🇧🇪 pic.twitter.com/1qg4JgZuQk— 🪦𝕮𝖊𝖒𝖊𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝕮𝖑𝖚𝖇🪦 (@CemeteryClub) March 3, 2023 The Central Cemetery in Belgium is home to this awesome moss-covered skull. — Read the rest

I'm not a big fan of going to bars, but i'd happily go to any bar that had this awesome whisky- pouring machine on display. This absurdist device was made by Joseph Herscher of Joseph's Machines. The joy of his inventions isn't about making the task at hand any easier. — Read the rest

Vulfmon, which seems to be the name for the non-Vulfpeck projects of Jack Stratton, has released a new recording featuring the fantastic, amazing vocalist and frequent Vulfpeck collaborator Antwaun Stanley: "The Lord Will Make a Way," a song written by 20th century gospel musician Thomas Dorsey. — Read the rest

This project—and its resulting video footage—is so cool! Watch a thousand "Legonauts" (Lego astronauts) on a mission on a mini space shuttle. The little yellow 'nauts, with their perma-smiles, look so happy to be flying, and the footage of them all soaring through the air is mesmerizing. — Read the rest

When this hermit crab adopted an old doll's head for a shell, a visual nightmare was unleashed to the seven seas. From the South China Morning Post: Crews doing beach clean-up work were surprised to discover a hermit crab attached to a plastic doll's head on Wake Island in the western Pacific Ocean. — Read the rest

Take a gander at these capybaras jumping off an embankment to escape becoming prey! Marvel at their graceful diving! Go, capybaras, go! The clip was posted on Pantanal Oficial's TikTok, with the caption: "Spotted jaguar hunting capybara in the Pantanal." — Read the rest

In the wake of the cursed Centers for Disease Control conference that became a super spreader event, the organization decided it was a good idea to release a new video about masking, which can be described, at best, as a half-hearted attempt to encourage people to mask to avoid spreading COVID—a virus that is, indeed, still circulating, despite how badly folks want to believe or pretend it's over....

According to the guy in this video, Indium is the only element in the universe that is both safe enough and soft enough to chew on like bubblegum. He explains that it has a consistency similar to refrigerated milk duds, but its is tasteless. — Read the rest

Arnaud Delannoy impressively offers 100 ways to hear Wham!'s "Careless Whisper" lick. Starting with the piano, the French musician plays the familiar melody on 99 other instruments, just not the song's original saxophone. Comments include, "I don't know what's more impressive: Being able to play a melody on each of these instruments or owning all these instruments," and "Your tone is so good on...

Find the invisible cow on this page by focusing on the audio. When you first open the page, you'll hear someone saying "cow" at various volumes depending on where you hover your cursor. If you click around the portion of the screen where the loudest "cow" is coming from, you'll eventually reveal the invisible cow. — Read the rest

You can't hide from this dragon. Despite being completely motionless, the dragon illusion looks like it's turning its head as you walk around it. At first, I thought this video was fibbing to me. I couldn't grasp how this illusion worked until the bizarre moment when the video reveals the true shape of the dragon cut-out. — Read the rest

According to Comicbook.com, the English language version of the Death Note Musical has announced its cast. Musicals occupy an interesting space in pop culture. When you look at the financials for almost every popular Broadway musical, you come to find out that they're all absurdly lucrative. — Read the rest

If you love The Smiths but can't bring yourself to listen to them anymore because of Morrissey's dismal politics, you can just write your own Smiths songs, courtesy of Desmond Doom's how-to video, entitled "How to Write a Smiths Song in One Minute," which he explains is "Made out of love for Moz and Marr's songwriting in The Smiths!" — Read the rest

In this video, writer/producer/performer Nile Rodgers explains how and why he wrote "I'm Coming Out" (1980) for Diana Ross. In 1979, he and his partner Bernard Edwards were hired by Diana Ross to produce her next album. While in the process of interviewing Ross to get a sense of the direction of the album he went to a nightclub known as a trans club,...

Just because this golden retriever is wearing a protective cone around her head doesn't mean all sports are off the table — there's always a continuous round of chase the tail. With no chance of actually catching said target, this harmless and endless game seems like the perfect activity for a recovering doggo needing to release some yayas. — Read the rest

Woke-obsessed Ron DeSantis out-woked himself today, inserting his all-purpose term "woke" into a woke-laden woke rant seven woke times in less than half a woke minute. "Woke represents a war on truth, so we plan to wage a war on woke," Florida's unwoke woke expert said today. — Read the rest

"He Walked By Night" is a 1948 film noir classic based on the real-life exploits of Los Angeles area burglar and killer Erwin "Machine Gun" Walker. Sure, there are plenty of moody nighttime images of backstreet shootouts and storm sewer chases but the film is also a who's who of actors who went on to long TV careers in well-known roles. — Read the...

'National Enquirer' "Who'll Die Next?" asks the 'Enquirer,' bringing readers a "Celebrity Death Pool" that doesn't even attempt the pretence of investigating stars' health, under the banner: "Disease! Drugs! Old age!" Putting 97-year-old Dick Van Dyke at the top of that list is hardly a stretch. — Read the rest

Miraculously, Telltale Games seems to have dragged itself back from the brink of bankruptcy following a major company restructuring. The studio made a name for itself by developing episodic, story‐based games based on borrowed IP, with its takes on The Walking Dead and Borderlands considered among the best pieces of media in their associated franchises from a pure storytelling standpoint. — Read the rest

I finally saw something that makes me want to play this game. mmmmm chicken mmmmmmmmm#TearsoftheKingdom #Zelda pic.twitter.com/AyeEU95gkQ— 💙ambi☁️ (@aquatic_ambi) June 1, 2023 10 million copies sold in three days!

Comedian and William & Mary alumnus Patton Oswalt greeted the university's Class of 2023 frankly: "To the graduating class of 2023, I say three words: you poor bastards." The '91 graduate, returning to his alma mater as the commencement speaker, wove humor and hard truths into his address, delivering a sobering yet inspiring message on the challenges that the new graduates face. — Read...

Robots are coming for our jobs sooner than later, if Richtech Robotics has any say in it. In this video, watch ADAM, their multi-tasking robot, act like a barista and make a coffee drink lickety split. But that's not all ADAM can do. — Read the rest

After engineer Sergii Gordieiev had one too many skating falls while trying to navigate a rough surface, he came up with a foolproof solution: attach big ol' bicycle tires to his inline skates. So he got to work, documenting his project in the 3-minute DIY video (see below), and ended up with an awesome pair of very stable, eye-catching skates (if that's what you...

Watching two grown men splashing about in the waves usually isn't my cup of tea but these aren't any ordinary grown men, this is Tenacious D. Last December, they sang a cover of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" and now they've got this weird little music video to accompany it. — Read the rest

As Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump try to out-MAGA one another as they battle it out for the primary blue — or red, as it were — ribbon, Trump further confuses the GQP mob by mocking the governor's one and only talking point: "woke." — Read the rest

A pet owner walks into the kitchen only to find his doggo's saucer-shaped bed had mutated into a moving, amorphous blob from outer space. But nope, after bravely lifting a bit of the cushion, he realized it was actually just his excited, tail-wagging pup finding new ways to entertain himself. — Read the rest

Ron DeSantis has already snapped, and his presidential campaign has only just begun. While the uptight governor posed with a forced smile after a stump speech today, an AP reporter simply asked why he didn't take questions from voters. And this, for some reason, set DeSantis off, whose so-called smile instantly dropped. — Read the rest

Longtime Trump handler Roger Stone was caught on a hot mic explaining how he regularly manipulated the ex-president. All he had to do was "convince the big man" with lies. Here's how it worked, as explained by the puppet master in footage from the new documentary, A Storm Foretold, obtained by The Daily Beast (see clip below, posted by Mike Sington): "You have to...

On a rainy June 1st, 1975, after landing in Salzburg, Austria, President Gerald Ford slipped while walking down the boarding stairs. Ford blamed the slip on an old knee injury acting up. Still, the caught-on-camera incident became a massive stumbling block for his re-election campaign. — Read the rest

One may hope that the recent AI trend will go the way of NFTs soon enough- but until then, we've still got to deal with tech bros and out-of-touch executives shoehorning it into anything that seems even remotely compatible. First it was Snapchat, then it was Discord, and now, apparently, it's video games. — Read the rest

Before the hip-hop band Black Eyed Peas dropped "Let's Get It Started" in 2004, which won them a Grammy, they released a different version of the song a year earlier. That original version had a, well, not-so-great title, one that would would likely put them in the crosshairs of cancellation these days. — Read the rest

On June 2nd, Street Fighter 6 will release to the general public and kick off a new generation of fighting games. A host of reviews for the game have already gone as far as to call Street Fighter 6 the greatest game in the franchise's history, as well as the new measuring stick for modern fighting games. — Read the rest

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise is one of the most robust and durable intellectual properties that the 80s has ever produced. While the Turtles' contemporaries in He-Man, Transformers, and Thundercats have seen their popularity vacillate depending on the era, the Ninja Turtles have remained consistently popular since their debut.  — Read the rest

This is Ora, she's a Borzoi, and she has a gloriously long snout. She's also recently committed at least six crimes, complete with video evidence: Impersonating a police siren Muppet assault Stalking Operating a landscaping company without a license Indecent exposure Straight up murder Ora is part of Jacob Chattman's Borzoi clan ("Esper 😇, Ora, Celes, Vladimir, & Joy"), which he describes as "magic spinning...

The dB's' 1984 album Like This—which features "Amplifier," a breakup song whose sad lyrics are incongruously set to catchy, upbeat music—was one of my music staples in high school and college, so I'm more than thrilled to hear that The dB's' Chris Stamey recently released a single that will be featured on his new solo album (set to drop on July 7, 2023).  — Read...

When some house painters were at a job and approached one of the windows, the homeowner didn't want her toy poodle to bark and told him not to leave his doggie bed. So the clever pooch did exactly what he was told — technically speaking, that is, if you count keeping one stretched-out paw on the fuzzy cushion while the rest of the doggo...

Whether consciously or not, Donald Trump is back on top at Fox News, made apparent after a correspondent on Fox & Friends referred to Ron DeSantis as "DeSanctus" in what seemed like an unintentional — and unnoticed — gaffe. "Of course, Iowa is where everybody starts. — Read the rest

View this post on Instagram A post shared by St. Andrew's School (@sasdelaware) In a surprisingly heartwarming senior prank, the Class of 2023 at St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware, turned their Head of School's house into a pop-up dormitory. — Read the rest

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Matty Jordan (@mattykjordan) It's no surprise that the South Pole gets cold but recent temperatures have really plummeted. Matty Jordan has been living and working at Scott Base in Antarctica, sharing photos and videos of his experience. — Read the rest

In what looked more like a Hollywood stunt than a terrible car accident, a driver traveling full speed on a Georgia highway last week drove up the ramp of a stationary tow truck, flew 120 feet up into the air, and flipped before crashing back down. — Read the rest

In this retro reimagining by Squirrel Monkey, a popular YouTuber known for imagining modern tech in the past, we find ourselves stepping back to the neon-tinted late 1980s. The video humorously features a MS-DOS version of ChatGPT, a nod to a time when computers ran on floppy disks, and the phrase 'Artificial Intelligence' was still confined to the realms of Sci-fi books and movies....

Announcing Volume 3 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug program: the brand new ON THE TRAIL OF TOM THE DANCING BUG, compiling every Tom the Dancing Bug comic strip from the years 1999-2002! Pre-orders are now being accepted for books that will be signed and personalized, and will include a hand-drawn illustration. — Read the rest

'National Enquirer' The long dark midnight of the American soul that is the marriage of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck continues to torment the tabloids, as the couple dare to exchange heated words in public. "J. Lo & Ben Marriage In Ruins!" — Read the rest

There's no shame in being a gamer these days. There have been countless video games that have outgrossed some of the biggest blockbuster films in Hollywood. Part of video games' success stems from the variety of genres that gamers can enjoy, sometimes within the same game.  — Read the rest

Ace Philip José Galit, also known as Shadow Ace, took the America's Got Talent (AGT) stage to show off his talents as a hand shadow artist. From the Philippines, Galit hopes to bring back what he calls a "lost art." — Read the rest