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Daft Punk + Kanye + Otomo = the Best Thing You’ll Watch Tonight

You know what makes Daft Punk’s “Better, Stronger, Faster” even better? Mashing it up with Kanye’s “Stronger.” And you know what Akira makes even better? Everything. Videosampleur produced this rocking remix, check out the rest of his work at Videosampleur.com.

Tahmoh Penikett Is A Super Cute Wizard Trapped On Earth In The Portal

Aw, this trailer for the comedy short The Portal is adorable. And not just because it has Tahmoh Penikett and Erin Karpluk in it. Yes they are both cute, but their little bantery “wizard stuck in a weird mundane world” shtick is adorable. This trailer for The Portal promises laughs, and delivers on cuteness. Fingers…

Manhattan Might Be Underwater Sooner Than We Expected

Maximum water levels in New York harbor during major storms have risen by nearly two-and-a-half feet since the mid-19th century. That means the chances of water spilling over the Manhattan seawall are at least 20 times greater than they were 170 years ago. Stefan Talke—an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Portland State…

Alligator fat can be made into biodiesel (and, yes, they have a lot of fat). Extreme cavers descend into the dark and dangerous depths of Earth’s deepest cave. And we tour the original, long-lost SeaWorld that never was. It’s time for the week’s Landscape Reads! Mapping the Deepest Cave on Earth Exploring the deepest cave…

Dad saves a kid from getting hit by becoming faster than a superhero

Old man strength. The ability to fix anything broken inside the house. The impeccable sense of direction. The never ending wallet. Dads are basically real life superheroes. Especially this dad, who probably activated the secret powerful dad mode God code you get when you become a father that made him instantly realize the trajectory the…

Bug trapped upside down does hypnotic workout forever

Is this bug a workout warrior who’s doing some insane six legged bench press? Or is he a dumb little critter who think he’s walking normally and doesn’t realize he’s trapped upside down? Whatever he’s doing, it’s hypnotic. And it goes on forever. And ever. And ever. Like three hours forever. SPLOID is a new…

What If Star Wars‘s Sound Effects Sucked?

Star Wars fans should count themselves lucky that George Lucas found talented sound designer Ben Burtt to bring the audible portion of his scifi universe to life. Because as this video proves, Star Wars would have been a much different movie with a less talented foley artist in charge. [Via Laughing Squid]

Supernatural Shows What Happens If You Live With Monsters Too Long

Last night’s Supernatural included one emblematic moment of Dean Winchester badassery that is bound to be immortalized in GIFs and T-shirts forever. “Look at me, Bitch!” And yet, the show also used that moment to talk about how Dean is becoming a monster. Something that happens when you spend too much time around them. Spoilers…

Pop an Ambien and watch happy Bob Ross happily washing his happy brush

I can watch Bob Ross forever. Back in college, I used to watch his program—The Joy of Painting—on late cable TV because he triggered my autonomous sensory meridian response like crazy. I’d get goosebumps and my blood pressure would drop. Here’s that son of a gun washing his brush again and again and again. SPLOID…

Dang, people don’t notice the homeless even when they’re family members

To most people living in cities around the world, the homeless have essentially become invisible. They blend into the streets, they’re background noise, they’re just a part of the fabric of a city like buildings and street lights and crosswalks. Only… they’re human. Just like us. To prove how invisible the homeless are to normal…

The Story of What Might Have Been, Palaeontology Edition

Find a palaeontologist. Have him watch a whole lot of science fiction time-travel movies. Guide him into philosophical conversations about pivotal moments and alternate history. Then set him in front a keyboard, and see what spills out about what he might have studied if not dinosaurs. Okay, that’s probably not how this article was written,…

tUnE-yArDs – Water Fountain

In a perfect world, you’d get an extended cut of this new tUnE-yArDs video, and watch it after you’d eaten a bunch of psychoactive drugs. This is what you get when kids who were raised on Pee-wee Herman grow up and become artists. And it’s no accident. For real. Director Joel Kefali says: When Merrill…

You Haven’t Seen Firefly Until You’ve Seen It On An Etch A Sketch

How much love does Firefly inspire? Enough to make cartoonist Boulet sit down with his Etch A Sketch and draw this single-line Firefly scene, with Serenity sitting in the background. Incidentally, everyone who hasn’t already should check out Boulet’s comics site; the man is a gift to the Internet and he posts short comic stories…

Could Roberto Orci Really Be Directing Star Trek 3?

Roberto Orci played a huge role in revitalizing the struggling Star Trek franchise with the 2009 reboot, which he co-wrote. And now, according to Variety, he’s lobbying to direct the third Trek movie, which J.J. Abrams is too busy to helm himself. Somehow we missed this bit, buried in an article about Orci and his…

How to Make a Drill-Powered Pepper Grinder

If you’ve ever cooked pepper steak, you know the feeling of your forearms cramping up after what seems like hours of twisting. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were just a machine that did all the hard work? Lucky for you, there is, and it’s probably in your garage. That is, if you still have…

Abu Dhabi’s New Park Will Hide a 30-Acre Oasis Below the Desert

The United Arab Emirates has been overrun with a surge of costly and extravagant developments over the past decade including the Palm Islands and Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Now, a 125,000 square-meter park in Abu Dhabi will join them—but this isn’t your average mega-development. The beautiful design is credited to Thomas Heatherwick, an imaginative and…

How Can You Tell If A Spinoff Series Will Succeed — Or Fail?

Spinoffs can vary pretty wildly in quality, from shows that are good enough to stand all on their own to shows that make even their predecessors unwatchable by association. But what are some of the signs that help you figure out which kind you’re getting? After learning some details about the spinoff that was confirmed…

Quick: Is This A Jackson Pollock Painting, or Insect Flight?

Can you distinguish a clever data visualization from an abstract expressionist painting? This happens to be the former, rather than the latter, but you’d be forgiven for not knowing. According to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Flight trajectories of fruit flies during exploration of a 30 cm wide wind tunnel are reconstructed as…

This Early Concept for the 1964 Ford Pavilion Was Googie-tastic

Above we see an early planning illustration for the Ford Pavilion at the 1964 New York World’s Fair. This design is a bit wilder than the one they actually built, which you can see below. Those swooping corridors — while decidedly more tame in their trajectory in its final built form — did include one…

This video of a car hitting a dog is not what it seems

I will not spoil the ending of this Russian dashcam video, so you have to watch the entire video till the very end. Trust me, you will really enjoy this—a lot. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook