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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s sweded reenactment of the droids-on-Tatooine scene from Star Wars is a naked attempt to create a viral ad for their new movie Paul, but that doesn’t make it any les…

The folks at faircompanies tipped me off to an interview they recently had with Daniel Gross, the entrepreneur behind a company called WorldHaus. WorldHaus, an Idealab project, has developed a low cost prefab building system intended to provide familie…

Here’s a nostalgic look at what a pain in the ass it was to produce a book in the era before digital typesetting, lo those many years ago.

Making books is fun! (to watch)

(Thanks, Techbuzz, via Submitterator!)

 Book made using 4 daisy-chained p…

This short video demonstrates the iconic Indian “Phat Phat Boat,” a cheap kids’ toy sold at festivals. It has a tiny steam boiler powered by a bottlecap filled with paraffin with a little wick, and when powered, it poots around in adorable circles.

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Denki Groove’s video for its song, “Fake it!,” features an endless loop of high divers. AmyGee writes in: “This clip of a loop of people jumping into a pool is mesmerizing. It starts off strong and keeps getting more awesome. At the end of it I felt …

In this video, a fifteen-year-old British student (I think the announcer calls him “Berkeley,” but it could be “Rodney” or something else) gives and rousing, articulate call-to-arms for social justice, solidarity, and social justice. This young man i…

Graeme Taylor shot out the window of a train at 210 frames per second, reversing the usual trick of shooting and slowing down a high-speed object from a stationary spot; rather, he shot a stationary spot from a high-speed object. The effect is somet…

Vi Hart’s “Mathematical Doodling” is a series of hilarious and informative narrated videos explaining doodle-games that you can play to explain mathematical concepts in a way that’s much more intuitive than the traditional math-class methodologies. …

Here’s a brief, excruciating video of cars losing traction on Seattle’s Capitol Hill during this week’s snowstorm and caroming downwards, out of control (the clincher is a city bus, and what appears to be the same white SUV that just keeps on trying…