"just thought i would SPRING into action haha do you get it?" writes Beeble.

It's the lockpicking lawyer again, a favorite around these parts, today showing how to open a fancy electrical gun safe with a bottle of orange juice. "That opened pretty easily.… Read the rest of the article: Gun safe opened with orange juice bottle

https://youtu.be/txoCOebILZk The best part of this video showing cops tangling with knife-wielding maniacs is it's at least three layers of cultural recapitulation deep: the posed 80s-era "original", the implicitly late-20th-century… Read the rest of the article: Knives vs Cops

Imagine settling in for your flight, gazing benignly and vacuously out of the window as the jet taxis and roars into motion, only to notice that one of the wheels… Read the rest of the article: Passenger videos plane wheel disintegrating during takeoff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8XdUNhNmU The purpose of automated attendant/interactive voice response phone menu systems is to make you fuck off before you trouble a human being. But such systems have a moral spectrum… Read the rest of the article: Britney Spears' Toxic as hold music

Farouk James isn't the first young man from London to have amazingly good hair, but as you can see, he's clearly in a league of his own. James has a… Read the rest of the article: British boy has excellent hair

Great news for parents sending their kids to American schools: a company called Wonderhoodie sells a bulletproof hoodie for children. Our patented, NIJ-IIIA panels discreetly protects the back and sides… Read the rest of the article: Bulletproof children's hoodie comes in small

The bird seed in our feeder began disappearing overnight, no matter how full it was. I set up an infrared camera to see what was devouring so much seed in… Read the rest of the article: Mystery of the vanishing bird seed solved

TT2020 is "an advanced, open source, hyperrealistic, multilingual typewriter font for a new decade!" As there already are so many, why another? Creator Fredrick Brennan (previously) points out that most… Read the rest of the article: TT2020: an old-timey typewriter typeface that doesn't look fake

In the annals of bad ideas, "stick your foot in lava" is as solid an entry as the medium is not. In this video, a brief tap of a stoutly-booted… Read the rest of the article: What happens when you step on lava

Fans of "popping"-type forums and accounts will doubtless be salivating at the prospect of seeing this 50-year-old Briton's hornlike growth removed from his body: it looks like a chunky column… Read the rest of the article: Man has 5-inch "horn" removed from back

Layla Moran (right), a Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament representing Oxford West and Abingdon, came out as pansexual this week. It had been noted that Moran now had a girlfriend… Read the rest of the article: British lawmaker comes out as pansexual

Dr. Phil (previously) is selling a $5.75 million L.A.-area house apparently occupied by his son. The interior must be seen to be believed; Adam best beautifully described it as an… Read the rest of the article: Dr. Phil is selling a tacky nightmare palace he owns

You've seen Mike "Beeple" Winkelmann's work before here—Nice animation of Zuckerberg as giant cyborg spider enjoying Facebook's nipple-free techno-utopia—and now Avery White interviewed him for Vox. He "works in a… Read the rest of the article: Interview with Beeple, artist behind Zuckerberg nightmare art

Nick Verzilli is surely furious: he muted the audio on the video he recorded of a USPS driver abusing his 40lb package of fancy computer bits.

These beetles do not exist: Confusing Coleopterists is an AI trained on illustrations from zoological textbooks. The extreme formality of this art genre, and its placement within the public domain,… Read the rest of the article: AI generates old-fashioned zoological illustrations of beetles

Never tell me the odds of avoiding a DMCA takedown.

If you were hoping that 2020 would mean less superficially amusing yet disquieting videos from me, I'm afraid you're on the wrong timeline. Happy New Year!

Granted anonymity somewhere along the line from shutter to public exposure, cadets in the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation's basic training program offer the camera a Nazi salute in a… Read the rest of the article: West Virginia governor wants Nazi saluting corrections cadets fired

Dozens are likely dead in Australia, which is beset by uncontrolled wildfires. Experts believe a third of the koala population on the continent's east coast is already wiped out, and… Read the rest of the article: Footage of Australian fire crew overwhelmed by flames