Videos

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, […]

The Jay Leno/Conan O’Brien/NBC situation is getting a lot of publicity and news coverage.  From Coco’s Craigslist solicitation on, it’s just getting stranger and stranger.  However, there’s nothing stranger than this weird Chinese news cartoon from NMA News about the situation.  From the people who brought you the amazingly weird Tiger Woods reenactment, here’s another […]

  There are two things everyone loves:  cute things and explosions.  Well, I like cute things and explosions anyway.  That’s where the brilliant new website Cute Things Exploding comes in.  They take your favorite viral videos and have them all end with something adorable blowing to smithereens.  While YesButNoButYes describes the site as “designed by […]

If you were shopping for Gatorade in Longmont, Colorado today, you might have sensed something was a bit amiss.  Gatorade, long represented by Tiger Woods, was the target of an unusual art project.  Well, the creator calls it pop art; the Food and Drug Administration may call it tampering or adulteration.  Over 1000 bottles of […]

Have you ever seen someone make a half-court shot?  It’s one of the most amazing feats in basketball.  Basically, you heave the ball from about 47 feet away and hope you get the ball through the hoop.  While one half-court shot is amazing, what would you say to five of them in a row?  That’s […]

The world famous San Diego Zoo has one of the most successful captive breeding programs in the world.  When it comes to pandas, nobody does it better.  Their giant panda enclosure is celebrating their fifth live birth during the 12-year history of the program.  Their newest resident also happens to be their biggest star, as […]

At a New Year’s Eve concert by Amanda Palmer (of the Dresden Dolls) with the Boston Pops at Boston’s Symphony Hall, there was a special guest.  That man was none other than Neil Gaiman, and a few minutes before midnight, he came out onto the stage to give the crowd a benediction for the beginning […]

I’ve talked before about how I love crazy viral video mash-ups, so it goes without saying that I saw the epic combination of The A Team’s theme with scenes from Star Wars, that it HAD to go somewhere on this website.  The fact that it’s so incredibly well done and pitch perfect when you compare […]

To raise awareness for (Red)’s efforts to fight AIDS in Africa and around the world, on World AIDS Day, Starbucks launched what they call the Starbucks Love Project to raise awareness and get people thinking and talking more about the biggest crisis in Africa this side of starvation.  One of the first things they did […]

I’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy Festivus, Happy Kwanzaa, or Joyous Whatever You Celebrate in December.  Since I took over PopFi as my very own baby website, I’ve put in a lot of time and energy both in front of the audience and behind the scenes, and I’m grateful for […]

Like I’ve always believed, if you give a man a license to carry a weapon, eventually the power goes to his head.  That’s the case in Washington D.C., where an impromptu snowball fighting flash mob got a little out of hand when a cop pulled his weapon after being hit by snowballs.   Not even […]

You’re just minding your own business, walking down the street or doing whatever it is that you do, and someone comes across you.  Boom, you’re discovered!  It’s every person’s Hollywood fantasy, but Fede Alvarez is living it.  The producer/director/animator/jack of all trades from Uruguay has made his celluloid dreams come true, after his short film […]