On Top of the Tallest Building in the World
Video footage from the top of Dubai's Burj Khalifa, at 2717 ft. For acrophobics, this is an eleven on the sphincter scale.
Homeless Man With a Golden Radio Voice
Ohio's Columbus Dispatch found this homeless gentleman with a silken voice and put the video out there, hoping to find this talent a place to call home.
How Fast Can the US Border Wall Be Scaled?
Each mile of border fence costs US taxpayers about $4 million to build and will cost another $6.5 billion over the next 20 years to repair and maintain. Are we getting our money's worth? Is the border fence an effective deterrent? To find out, two young women—both only about 5'5"—were asked if they could climb the wall.
Christmas With Julian Assange
Newsweek has an exclusive gallery of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's Christmas revelry as he awaits a British court's decision on whether he will be extradited to Sweden to face sexual-assault charges. Here's a few pics that prove even alleged bad-boy journos love Christmas.
Polar Bears Outsmart Spy Cams
The BBC sent a fleet of camo cameras to spy on the polar bears inhabiting the Norweigen archipelago of Svalbard. But while they were built to withstand temperatures as low as -40C, in the end most could not cope with the curiosity displayed by their subjects. (Via.)
Graphic Violence
FX wizards Corridor Digital bring a videogame to life on the walls of a building in this dazzling short.
Musicians We Lost in 2010
A sound-collage tribute to musicians who died in 2010 (sans Teena Marie, who passed after this tribute), via The New York Times.
Beer Malfunction
This actress may have been jiggling her cans a bit too much, 'cause she certainly didn't anticipate that splash upon her face.
Russia's Kurt Cobain
Listening to this Russian street busker's eerily accurate rendition of Nirvana's "About a Girl" is like hearing the ghost of Kurt Cobain.
Camera On the Tip of a Sword
These guys had the crazy idea to duct-tape a camera on the tip of the sword. And it turns out it looks awesome. All recording are done in real speed.
December 2010 Blizzard Timelapse
A timelapse over the span of an evening demonstrates just how insane East Coast blizzards have been this last week.
Dolphins See Themselves In Mirror
CNN's Randi Kaye goes down in an underwater lab to see how dolphins react to themselves in a mirror. It's virtually impossible to watch these dolphins checking themselves out without smiling.
25 Years of Christmas
Youtuber Spoonito says: "Every year, our dad would tape us coming down the stairs. This is a compilation of all the videos I could find. Relatives and pets grow up and disappear, and new extended family members appear in their place."
Merry Christmas From Ke$ha! [NSFW]
Nothing quite warms the cockles of my heart than a Christmas song from Ke$--WAIT, WHAT?!!
A Very Zombie Holiday
An instructional video for ensuring a happy home during this zombie-infested holiday season.
Seattle Weekly Celebrates Repeal of DADT
The Weekly wanted to celebrate the moment--and the gay men and women who served in the military under a forced shroud of personal secrecy. So they re-worked a classic image for this week's cover.
Scientists Create Singing Mouse
In a genetically engineered experiment, Japanese scientists at the University of Osaka have created a mouse that tweets like a bird. After crossbreeding genetically altered mice for some time, to see what would happen, they apparently got their first interesting result, by mistake.
Mother & Son, Then & Now
They grow up so fast.
X-Files Marks The Spot
This intersection of spooky and awesome was spotted in Canada.
Why the Other Line is Likely to Move Faster
Ever feel like you got in the wrong line? Here's the science behind why the other line at the supermarket appears to be moving faster. (via.)