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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

http://gizmodo.com/5817559/watch-this-deeply-weird-snack-bar-video

Watch it too at least the half way point. It looks familiar, but gets really "...fun...?" later.
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

freaky faces illusion:
http://gizmodo.com/5819584/this-weird-optical-illusion-turns-beautiful-girls-into-horrible-monsters
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

http://gizmodo.com/5823404/watching-a-world-record-blob-jump-is-soaring-flying-fun
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Jastermereel · Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:25 am Post subject:

Just in time for camping!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=playnmJB_TI
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fate · Uber-Karma Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1178

Fabulous Oblivion video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fxVeAVl2I8&feature=player_embedded
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

george lucas strikes back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BMgegut3UM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

http://kotaku.com/5841033/insane-unreal-tournament-3-modders-weaponize-nyan-cat
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fate · Uber-Karma Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1178

YES
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

fun water fountain:
http://gizmodo.com/5841358/this-crazy-water-fountain-for-aliens-knows-when-youre-thirsty
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Jastermereel · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 1:14 pm Post subject:

Earth from space never gets old:
http://io9.com/5841441/insane-time+lapse-video-films-the-international-space-stations-zipping-over-the-earths-surface
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

Mongolians getting their pictures taken:

http://vimeo.com/27876709
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

Alpha Dog video
http://gizmodo.com/5845419/this-is-the-next-generation-of-the-creepiest-most-awesome-quadruped-robot-ever

I always feel bad for them when someone keeps trying to push it over....
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Jastermereel · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 11:58 pm Post subject:

"The Doors" covering the theme from Reading Rainbow:
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/The-Doors-Sing-Reading-Rainbow-Theme/1368107
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Jastermereel · Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:05 am Post subject:

and in other musical oddness...Bear McCreary (Battlestar composer) with a theme...on an accordion:
http://io9.com/5858962/and-now-bear-mccreary-playing-battlestar-galactica-a-la-accordion

and some fantastic footage of the Auroras
http://io9.com/5859010/were-99-certain-this-is-the-most-beautiful-footage-of-earths-auroras-yet-recorded
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Jastermereel · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:51 am Post subject:

Squishy Robots:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/11/i_for_one_welcome_our_future_s.php
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fate · Uber-Karma Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1178

http://www.petsugar.com/Funny-Video-Cat-Attacking-Birthday-Card-21173632
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Jastermereel · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 8:49 pm Post subject:

Paul and Storm's "The 25 Days of Newman"
http://paulandstorm.bandcamp.com/album/the-25-days-of-newman
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

bizzarly wierd:

http://kotaku.com/5882688/this-drunken-reenactment-of-the-death-and-return-of-superman-is-crazed-hilarious
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Jastermereel · Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 8:24 pm Post subject:

DovahCore? Fus Ro SPAAACE?
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/08/valves-skyrim-mod-finding-spaaaaaaaace-man/
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Jastermereel · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 2:52 pm Post subject:

Micro-manufacturing of Bee Drones with a dollop of origami:
http://boingboing.net/2012/02/19/miniature-bee-drones-made-from.html

It's no Cyriak but...
http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/dramatic-skifcha.html
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Jastermereel · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 2:31 pm Post subject:

CAPTCHA Graffiti: http://vimeo.com/11832548
Moss Graffiti: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Moss-Graffiti
and http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/moss-grass-graffiti/2147

Yeah, only the first is a video, but it reminded me of the others so...8P
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Jastermereel · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 11:25 am Post subject:

A snoring hummingbird:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj5huCuhD_Q
That is all.
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

for those of you who played limbo
http://kotaku.com/5888127/the-dorkly-weekly-shedding-a-little-light-on-limbo
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

robot solves rubix cube
http://www.wimp.com/robotsolves/
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Jastermereel · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:46 pm Post subject:

Steel Drum Street Performer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9oEskFSLxSU
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

http://kotaku.com/5894727/this-video-on-how-awful-the-light-saber-battles-in-the-phantom-menace-are-will-ruin-star-wars-for-you
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Jastermereel · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 11:21 am Post subject:

"What if Alien were an Easter Movie"
http://io9.com/5899699/what-if-alien-were-an-easter-movie
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Jastermereel · Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 3:28 pm Post subject:

Giant K'nex Ball Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-zcsieI8kM
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fate · Uber-Karma Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1178

http://www.wimp.com/astronomicalclock/
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Jastermereel · Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 5:54 pm Post subject:

Neil Stephenson makes a book trailer mocking book trailers:
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/book-trailer-that-mocks-book-trailers
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