Brian Cassidy
World's First Commercially-Available Jetpack
The 1950's idea of the future has finally arrived! Martin Jetpack is selling the first commercial jetpack for a mere $86,000. Which seems like a lot to pretend you're the Rocketeer.
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The Car-Puccino: The VW Scirocco That Runs On Coffee!
The good news? No more gas stations! Bad news? You have to drive a '88 VW Scirocco. Oh and "the running cost of the vehicle that has been estimated at between 25 and 50 times the cost of running a car on petrol."
Brian Cassidy
1906 San Francisco Earthquake: Before And After
In 1905, footage was shot from the front of a S.F. streetcar. A year later, after the massive 1906 earthquake struck, the same shot was filmed again. Edited together, it offers a haunting and startling view of the destruction.
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YouTube Closes Down For The Night
Don't you just hate it when you fall asleep at your desk and by the time you wake up this is on?
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LOL. Limewire.
A little ditty you won't be able to get out of your head for the rest of the day. You're welcome.
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Toyota Simulator
Tasteless and beautifully-pointless utter waste of time.
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Banana Underwear
Australian underwear "made from real banana fiber." Let the punning and bad jokes begin!
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Eradicate Evil: Vote Batman (NSFW-ish)
What? You didn't know Batman ran a third-party dark-horse (sorry) campaign for the mayorship of Gotham? Sadly, the campaign was undone when this photo of his press secretary was discovered.
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NYC Subway Station's "Hey Jude" Sing-Along
Street band gets jaded New Yorkers to sing along to finale of Beatles' classic, with joyous results.
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Free On Wednesdays
"On I January, my husband informed me that he would be spending every Wednesday with his mistress." A fantastic personal ad from The London Review of Books. She may have my favorite reason ever for not getting a divorce. Book lovers take note.
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You Can Be Jewish AND Study Karate!
Just in case you didn't know.
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Goofy Movie IRL
Why in the world would someone make a shot-for-shot live-action recreation of the opening scene from Disney's A Goofy Movie?
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Memoirs of a Scanner
Clever short film shot entirely with a flatbed scanner.
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Max Headroom Coming to DVD!
All those under about 30 can stop paying attention now. But to my fellow Gen-Xers, I say: "August 2010 cannot come soon enough!" (And for those youngsters still with us who would like to snicker at the quaint retro-futuristic tastes of their elders, click here, here, or maybe even here.
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Crochet Star Wars Characters
Geek + Crafty = Adorable. (Click through for a bunch more.)
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The Female Orgasm: By The Numbers
What I took away from this chart: 1) More men than women know the exact location of the clitoris. And 2) We apparently have no idea what know what to do with this knowledge. (NFSW-ish). (Via.)
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How to Make Pancakes Like a Junkie
At last! A step-by-step guide on making flapjacks using only the materials you might find at your neighborhood crack den.
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Man Walks Into Glass Door While Holding Cup of Coffee
That about says it all, doesn't it?
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Bananas Exploding On Face
I personally guarantee that this is the best bananas-exploding-on-face video you will see this year.
Brian Cassidy
What Happens To You When You Don't Send Out Chain Messages
This chart finally offers incontrovertible scientific proof.
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