This is Pretty Spectacular: Watch the Hunger Games Second Quarter Quell
In what definitely takes the cake as the most impressive fan-produced video I have ever seen, Mainstay Productions put together a short film chronicling the Second Quarter Quell, a flashback featured...
View ArticleThe Spidey Workout Might Be a Less Effective Version of Tai Chi [Video]
You might not be able to climb walls like Spidey, nor will you be able to develop a Spidey sense! Nor will you be able to shoot webs from your wrists! … But you can do Spidey stance! That’s about it....
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Next Time You Commit a Crime* Just Blame it on Batman
Next time I get caught J-walking I’m totally blaming it on Captain America. At least it’ll be less extreme than the man in Pittsburgh who got caught trying to jack a car and said it was all a part of...
View ArticleIt’s Portal! With Ninjas! [Video]
Imagine if Chell was a ninja. Seriously. Portal is already pretty great, but with ninjas? Oh yes. Ninjas. What do ninjas not make better? Not very much. I just hope for everyone else’s sake that they...
View ArticleTrailer for HBO’s Superheroes Documentary [Video]
We love our real-life superheroes, and HBO‘s documentary — aptly titled Superheroes — has been following such people in their humble, comic-inspired efforts. Are they crazy? Are they noble? Judge for...
View ArticleThe 25 Greatest Improvised Scenes in Cinema History
Oh, wait, we’re on? UH. Here’s lookin’ at… No, wait, are you lookin’ at… I’m blogging here, I’M BLOGGING HERE. …hey wait a second, this doesn’t have “I love you. I know.” or Indiana Jones shooting the...
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Texas Man Breaks into House, Bites Woman, Claims to Be 500 Year Old Vampire
ATTENTION, WORLD: No matter what True Blood, Twilight, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer have taught you, it is not exactly acceptable to sneak into someone’s house and bite them on the neck with the...
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Science: Glow-in-the-Dark Kittens Might Help Us Fight AIDS [UPDATED]
Okay, so, there’s a glowing kitten. Right there. Why, you might ask, is that kitten glowing and what does it have to do with finding a cure for AIDS? Well, I’ll tell you! Before that kitten became a...
View ArticleMoral of the Day: If You Live in Gotham City, Don’t Dress Like A Clown
Man, Batman is a jerk, but I think my favorite part of this is that the Joker just. Wants. To tell his story. Poor Joker. (via Blastr.)
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Real Life Spider-Woman Climbs Castle To Avoid Admission Fee
I love a castle as much as the next girl (probably a bit more) but this woman is willing to do a lot more than I am to get into one. Even when it’s not necessary. In front of several tourists, Ma Jei...
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Petoskey Batman Sentenced to Probation, Can’t Wear Batman Costume for Six Months
Mark Wayne Williams was found hanging off the roof of a building in downtown Petoskey, Michigan this May, wearing a Batman costume and carrying a baton, a kind of defensive chemical spray, and...
View ArticleBest Chemistry Teacher Ever Carves a Pumpkin By Blowing It Up From the Inside...
Don’t stop us, we’re just going to say it: We’re ending our Halloween posts with a bang. Chemistry teacher Chris Bergmann at Kinard Middle School ran this loud little experiment two years ago, showing...
View ArticleWatch the Incredible Hulk Throw an Ewok. WARNING: Contains Hulk-on-Ewok...
We will not keep you very long in today’s final video. But we will warn you that an Ewok — perhaps Wicket — is being thrown into the air by the Incredible Hulk. Or — IS IT? Nub nub nuuuuubbbbbbb …...
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Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Up Someone’s House And Car With A Cannonball
The Mythbusters crew recently busted something other than a myth. The Discovery Channel show had one of their experiments go awry in Dublin, California recently leaving a cannonball-sized hole in...
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Superman Saves Pedestrian… Er, Surgeon Dressed As Superman Saves Pedestrian
Heng Khuen Cheok, an Australian ER doctor, happened to be coming home from his own bachelor party when he witnessed a pedestrian “skittling,” which Urban Dictionary assures me is slang for “getting...
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Oregon Man Arrested After Attacking Toys ‘R’ Us Customers With His Lightsaber
For seemingly no rhyme or reason (or perhaps, sadly, a mental health reason), an unidentified 33-year-old man in Portland, Oregon was arrested after attacking Toys ‘R’ Us shoppers with a blue...
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Mythbusters Hosts Will Produce, Judge a Rube Goldberg Competition Show
If you like Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, you’re going to be very happy about this: the Mythbusters hosts have announced that they’ll be producing a new show for Discovery called Unchained Reaction....
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Penny Palfrey Cuts Her Swim in Shark-Infested Waters Short, Is Still Pretty...
Penny Palfrey, a 49-year-old endurance swimmer, had set out to complete a record-breaking 107-mile swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys. But what set this feat apart from your typical 107-mile swim is...
View ArticleDid Oliver Queen Just Kill A Dude In This CW Arrow Clip?!
I’m following the CW’s big Smallville follow-up, Arrow, with a sharp eye. Oliver Queen is one of my favorite characters (when written well) and I’d love to see this show succeed. The clips and...
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Helicopter Mom Hacks School Computer To Change Son’s Grade From 98 To 99
There’s nothing quite like grade school grade grubbing — your friends think you’re annoying, your teachers hate you, and you eventually grow up to be one of those jerks who gun their hand up at every...
View ArticleWhy You Would Mute Batman on XBox Live
A week ago somebody asked me if I saw any of qualities of Batman in a friend of mine, and I was honestly stumped. See, I don’t spend much time thinking about Batman in relation to people I know...
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Thor: The Dark World Actor Suffers “Horrible Injury” On Set; Calm Down, It’s...
She may be playing a warrior goddess, but Jaimie Alexander isn’t indestructible in real life. The actress, a.k.a Lady Sif, a.k.a. debatably the most badass part of Thor (and that includes the God of...
View ArticleReal Birds Tweet With Their Own Twitter Account, Are More Interesting Than...
When we first got my cat Dewey, he had a tendency to walk on my keyboard. I was surprised one day to find replies to my twitter stream asking if I was OK. Turns out, Dewey had sent a tweet on my...
View ArticleBack to the Future’s DeLorean Receives Its Long-Awaited Hover Conversion [VIDEO]
If memory serves, we don’t know exactly when hover technology started being utilized by the masses. Though it’s somewhere between 1985 and 2015 if Back to the Future 2 is any indication. While we may...
View ArticleHow to Open a Fruit Cup
Octopimp on YouTube crafted this lightly animated version of Stephanie Pepper‘s short comic about the perils of lunchtime. (via Neatorama.) Previously in Animation Trailer for Ghibli’s The Wind Rises...
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Maria Leijerstam Is the First Person to Cycle to the South Pole
What were you doing on Christmas? Maria Leijerstam was trekking 500 miles across Antarctica on a high-tech tricycle, beating the two guys she was racing against to become the first person ever to...
View ArticleGoing Behind-The-Scenes Of Gravity Makes Us Love Sandra Bullock Even More
Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity is amazing, but incredibly difficult to watch (what with the intense anxiety and inevitable spontaneous crying). Now, take that feeling, multiple it by a million, and that’s...
View ArticleThis Six-Year-Old Girl’s Superpower is Breakdancing
Jungle – Platoon from Jungle on Vimeo. I know you’re all really busy avoiding work right now, and there are those among you who might not want to watch three minutes and sixteen seconds of a...
View ArticleBane Cat Leads The League Of Snuggles [VIDEO]
I honestly can’t tell if the mask if CG or not. I hope it is, otherwise that is one chill cat, in which case, come live with me, kitty!! (via Daily Dot) Previously in Cats Wolverine Cat & Cyclops...
View ArticleIf Real People Behaved Like Disney Characters [Video]
Though there is much about this video that gives me the creepies, I confess that I now have a desire to carry a pocketful of confetti wherever I go. (via Kotaku) Previously in Disney Kristen Bell...
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