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If you ever wondered what all 25 years of The Simpsons couch gags looks like if they were all played at the same time, well, here you go. This video plays the intro from all 554 episodes from 26 seasons (even that bizarre one we just saw) and I kind of wish I could zoom…
Jeff Herbertson’s backflip over a 73-foot canyon at Red Bull Rampage 2014 is pretty insane. But, somehow, it seems easier and less terrifying than the beginning of his run, which made me grab my chair’s arms. No matter how may of these videos I see, I would never get use to them. And hey, he…
Here’s an uncomfortable vision of the future that’ll make your soul tremble a little bit: what if we built automated machines to fight our wars for us? What if those machines killed everyone on the planet? And what happens when the war is over and everyone is dead but those machines are still programmed to…
The Second Annual Jalopnik Film Festival is happening in New York City on November 5th and 6th and it will feature a bunch of new films, including the world premiere of APEX: The Story Of The Hypercar. But what the hell is a Hypercar? The trailer has the answer. Get tickets to the festival here.…
You are looking at the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer onboard the ISS. The news is that, “after accumulating years of data, […] there are significantly more positrons than expected at the highest energies detected.” Scientists believe their origin may be the destruction of dark matter, which is amazing. After accumulating years of data, it has now…
If I were the Federal Aviation Administration, I would order every single plane to fly shooting fireworks like Gene Soucy and his acrobatic airplane over the skies of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Security be damned in the name of beauty. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
I don’t see myself jumping from one roof to another without breaking all my bones. However I can clearly do this thing I named Horizontal Parkour. The guys that made the videoclaim they can do some parkour tricks in the real life, but I bet that wouldn’t be as fun to watch as this: SPLOID…
In case there was any doubt, Tyrion Lannister is the absolute winner of Game of Thrones —when it comes to screen time. However, the Starks win over the Lannisters, at least until season 3, before the Red Wedding. Here’s the interactive versionof the cool visualization above, if you want to check all the characters. It’s…
I’m a sucker for the musicless music videos by Mario Wienerroither. His foley work is flawless—and the results always hilariously absurd. This is even more obvious in his version of Gene Kelly’s singing the most iconic scene of Singin’ In the Rain. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
This Mr. Bean Snickers commercial is pretty silly, but it works: Now I want that crapstastic chocolate-caramel-and-peanut flavor in my mouth and the rush of sugar pumping through my bloodstream. Snickers is the only (crap) chocolate bar that I like. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
We all had movie posters on our walls in college. Mine was for the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles—no, I’m not ashamed—and when I close my eyes, I can still picture it. That incredible effect that makes a movie poster iconic is exactly what makes Film the Blanks so interesting. In its own words, Film…
It’s official. 25 years later, Twin Peaks is coming back to television. Creators David Lynch and Mark Frost hinted about it last weekand now they just made it official: A new season is coming to Showtime in 2016. I wanted it to be Netflix or Amazon, but Lynch and Frost had to go Showtime for…
Watching these tiny chemical reactions magnified is like getting into a fantastic world of colors, textures, and geometric shapes. It’s part of a series of stunning short videos that glamorize chemistry with the intention of making it more interesting to the public. Beautiful Science is a result of the collaboration between Tsinghua University Press and…
German singer Anne-Maria Hefele has been training her voice since 2005 to become an polyphonic overtone singer. This means that she is capable of singing different scales of low notes (fundamentals) and high pitched notes (overtones) at the same time producing an otherworldly sound that gave me goosebumps. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…
The people at AMC just released the official Better Call Saul song—performed by country musician Junior Brown and written by the creators of the show Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. It contains hints about the plot. Listen carefully and watch for actual clips from the new show. The video has been blocked outside the US.…
According to the United States Census Bureau “the average travel time to work in the United States is 25.4 minutes.” This interactive map by WYNC maps shows you all the average commuting times for each zip code in the entire country. Check out some of the main urban areas: SPLOID is a new blog about…
Impressive shotof a French Air Force Rafale jetflying over Baghdad en route to attack ISIS targets in Mosul, Iraq, from its base in Al Dhafra, United Arab Emirates. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
As you could imagine, all those sex scenes that look so hot on the big screen are actually quite awkward while filming. Check out this behind-the-scenes clip of Brooklyn Decker and Patrick Wilson trying to get into it while they get sprayed with fake sweat on the set of Joe Carnahan’s movie Stretch. SPLOID is…
Casey thinks watching people making pots is soothing. It is true. I also think it is extremely satisfying. Watch master Hsin-Chuen Lin creating two different kind of lids for the same jar and you will see what I mean. It’s such a pleasure I get goosebumps. At last, I understand Demi Moore. You can buy…
Designer and data scientist Matt Daniels charted this neat comparison of vocabularies in hip hop. At the bottom of the chart you can see DMX with only 3,214 unique words. Outkast has more unique words in their lyrics than Shakespeare, but everyone is way behind Aesop Rock, who rules with 7,392 words. Aesop Rock is…
