Videos

The video starts out ominously.  Six soldiers in the Israeli military on patrol in the disputed city of Hebron in the West Bank, an area prone to violence and mayhem.  However, as the Muslim call to prayer fades, something different kicks in.  The soldiers’ sense of humor for one.  The electro-tinged dance-pop of Ke$ha’s hit […]

Hulu, the streaming television website, is an office worker’s best friend.  How else can you stare intently at your computer and occasionally smash buttons on your keyboard while still catching up with the latest episodes of The Simpsons and Family Guy?  Well, if you’re like me and you enjoy Hulu, but hate the fact that […]

Lizzie Velasquez, in a lot of ways, is one of the luckiest people.  Born at 2 pounds 10 ounces, the 21-year-old from Austin, Texas, wasn’t expected to even make it past birth, yet obviously she’s still here.  Unfortunately, she suffers from a medical condition so unusual that doctors have struggled to classify it:  she has […]

I have to admit, the first few times I saw the video of this Brazillian baby boogying on top of a table, I thought it was fake.  I mean, the kid just moves too good for the video to be real, but it is adorable so I figure… why not share it with the PopFi […]

Want to see something beautiful?  The Johnny Cash Project is an ambitious project to assemble a music video for Johnny Cash’s posthumous album Ain’t No Grave (AKA American VI) out of thousands of drawings.  You can check out the project here, but the final video result has been released and the end result is just… […]

During last night’s NBA Finals game, Boston Celtics guard Ray Allen set a record.  In a single game, he hit 8 three point shots, scoring 32 points.  Allen’s 8 trifectas come after a pretty lousy performance in the first game of the series, scoring only 12 points.  What was the difference in the two games?  […]

Sometimes, you’re just hungry and you gotta eat.  When you’ve had a few drinks, then the desire to eat is even greater.  I’m not really sure why that is, but the above Yankees fan is living proof that drunk people will do pretty much anything, and that TV cameras won’t scare anyone away.  The other […]

In the late 1950’s, a young man named Robert Zimmerman moved to Minneapolis to enroll in the University of Minnesota.  To explore his love of music, he played in local coffee houses and bars, strumming his acoustic guitar and warbling out strange lyrics in a voice somewhere between naturally and deliberately awful.  Now, to honor […]

It must be hard to be a celebrity.  Everywhere you go, there’s someone watching you.  Every little thing you do, every cough or burp, is caught on film by someone.  People are just waiting to pounce on your every mistake.  That’s why I kind of feel bad for Justin Bieber.  I mean, he’s just a […]

Steffest is quite possibly the best mobile phone hacker in the world.  To prepare for a presentation at MobileCampBrussels, he took the time to hack together a guitar made out of smartphones.  That’s right, he took five mobile phones, taped them together, and did some ingenious coding to record the world’s coolest cover of Cracklin’ […]

In 1974, Lee Majors played an astronaut who suffered a horrifying accident.  However, he survived, and after numerous surgeries and cutting-edge technological implants, he becomes the hero known as The Six Million Dollar Man.  In 2004, Claudia Mitchell suffered a motorcycle accident in which she lost her arm.  However, she survived, and after some cutting-edge […]

Despite his ongoing battle with liver cancer, 13-year-old Erik Martin, like most kids that age, wants nothing more than to be a super hero.   In what is probably the most heart-warming thing you’ll read all day, the Make-A-Wish Foundation turned Erik’s dream into reality, thanks to a little help from the entire city of […]

These aren’t just ordinary raccoons.  Residents of one Chicago, Illinois, neighborhood say they are being invaded by giant raccoons.  Wilma Ward, one of the residents, said that a particular raccoon invader “looked like an orangutan swinging-swinging around.  It was scary, very scary.”  Other folks in her neighborhood have described raccoons the size of German Shepherds.  […]

A diver has an unusual encounter with an octopus on Friday.  It’s not often that these reclusive creatures are captured on film by divers, but it’s even more unusual when an octopus comes out of hiding to mug a diver and steal his camera.  However, that’s exactly what happened to Victor Huang, the man who […]

Elizabeth Rasmuson had an idea.  She’s heard about dresses made out of weird materials before, so she decided to take some inspiration from duct-tape fashions and her love of colorful gum wrappers.  So, , she decided to make her own prom dress using wrappers from Wrigley’s 5 gum.  Unknown numbers of sticks later, and she’s […]