Videos

For over 10 years, Domingo Pianezzi has trained surfers on the Peruvian beach town of San Bartolo.  Mostly people, but sometimes he’s also helped train animals to surf.  In his case, he has a dog that he’s trained to surf with him, and he even participates in international pet surfing competitions.  Since he knew he […]

Like something out of a Jimi Hendrix song, the citizens of Stavropol, Russia, are surrounded by a purple haze.  It’s not LSD or smoke-machine related; this purple haze is actually purple snow, which blanketed the region earlier this week.  The snow isn’t actually all purple, it actually ranges in color from red to brown.  The […]

Enjoy this one while it’s around, gang, because I have no idea how long it’ll manage to stay online (though Battlestar Rhapsody is still around, thankfully).  From the credit montage to the fighter ship doing doughnuts, some creative genius has completely remade the famous Beastie Boys video “Sabotage” featuring an all-Battlestar Galactica cast.  The title […]

There’s nothing better than a good old-fashioned sports controversy, and boy, is this one big.  Like, 6′8 women’s basketball player Brittney Griner big.  Given that she’s bigger than most everyone else on the court, Brittney Griner gets a lot of aggressive defense, but during a game versus Texas Tech, this giant proved she is not […]

He flies through the air with the greatest of ease.  Seth Enslow isn’t a man on a flying trapeze, however; he’s more like a tattooed madman on the back of a specialized Harley Davidson.   Enslow took a Harley-Davidson XR1200, put a dirt bike suspension and handlebars on it, and then used that bike to […]

Two teachers, when asked to perform at a high school pep rally, took things from the gym to the strip club with their routine.  Chrystie Fitchner, a physical education teacher, and an unnamed male teacher performed a little routine students dubbed Two Teachers, One Chair, which featured Fitchner receiving a lap dance from a male […]

It’s one of my biggest problems with 3-D movies.  I don’t mind paying extra, nor do I mind wearing goofy plastic eyeglasses.  However, I do mind the headaches and blurred vision that usually accompanies 3-D movies.  I figured I was in the minority on this, but VOA News suggests that 3-D headaches, eye strain, and […]

It’s not often that you see a member of the media completely lose his mind on air, but apparently meteorologist Jim Kosek of AccuWeather.com does this on a pretty regular basis.  That’s why, when I tried to find Jim Kosek’s specific Snowpocalypse freakout concerning Washington, D.C., there were dozens of videos of him presenting the […]

The Vancouver Winter Olympics are bringing out the best in all the competitors and their supporting countries.   After all, it’s not just a cross-country skiing competition or a display of ice dancing, it’s about national pride.  That’s why a group of Russian musicians decided to ply their trade to show support to their athletes, […]

I think that we all have an idea of what we believe life to be like on the International Space Station.  I’m sure you’ve got the same mental images I do:  cool white, a lot of metal rungs and floors, very sterile and padded, very science-fictiony and high tech.  Well, as this great video tour […]

The black hole is one of the most fascinating phenomenon in space.  I mean, it’s the super-dense hulk of a dead star whose gravitational pull is so intense that not even light can escape it.  Nobody knows what it’s really like to be sucked into one of these things (a favorite danger of science fiction […]

It’s one of my favorite XKCD strips of all time:  XKCD Loves The Discovery Channel.  And now it’s come to life in what has to be the ultimate tribute to the Internet thanks to Olga Nunes, featuring puppets, Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, Cory Doctrow, Miss Cellania, Google Zurich, and pretty much everyone of any importance […]

Everyone who has ever seen the news is vaguely familiar with the formula of how a standard news piece is put together.  When it’s not a breaking news story, just something they want to push a report on, there’s a pretty standard template of how to do it.  Newswipe, a BBC Four TV news satire […]

This is great.  Pee-wee Herman is all excited about his new iPad, only to get dragged down to earth by his friends at the Playhouse, who point out just how non-revolutionary the Apple iPad has turned out to be.  If you’re a fan of the old Pee-wee’s Playhouse, or if you’re just not a follower […]

This is quite possibly the funniest commercial I’ve ever seen.  Shockingly, it’s for big-box retail megagiant Walmart.  Not only do they own everything, and make more money than most of the world’s countries, now they’re also making some of the best ads to hit television.  When I saw this one during the AFC Championship Game, […]