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  • Man refuses to let bomb blast interrupt his workout [video]

    What do you normally do when a bomb goes off next door to you? If it is the first time it has happened to you, chances are you would stop everything you were doing and say, “WTF was that?!” Then you would proceed towards the window with caution and...
  • The worst playground idea ever [video]

    Unfortunately our search for details on this interesting piece of playground equipment has come to nothing. It may very well be a hoax, but if it isn’t then someone, somewhere is definitely getting sued, fired or a combination of sued and fired....
  • Gentleman’s Fight Club provides brutal stress relief for the cubicle workers of Silicon Valley

    An underground fight club is not normally the sort of thing that you would associate with the types that earn their crust mashing code and founding start-ups – but a bunch of them have gotten together to relieve stress by punching and kicking the snot out of each other...
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    The most awesome waste of time ever on YouTube

    As a kid, I always wanted to do particularly dangerous things with otherwise harmless toys, like putting gasoline in waterballoons or attaching tacks to the end of NERF darts.  Clearly, I was thinking inside the box. David Windestål strapped a camera and a Roman candle to his RC helicopter,...
  • Alternate Return of the Jedi ending is grittier and more satisfying

    I know I will offend a bunch of people when I say this, but the seeds for The Phantom Menace were planted in Return of the Jedi. Too cute, too happy – where was the hard edge that we saw in the earlier episodes? The short answer to that...
  • Steampunk Etch-a-Sketch is better than anything I got or gave this Christmas

    Looking at this beautifully crafted steampunk Etch-a-Sketch, makes me wish that I had friends with similar talents to Redditor HaloKitty, who put together this masterpiece for a friend’s Christmas present. Here is what she had to say about the project: 1. I’m a she, and it was a joint...
  • Iconic icons woven into stylish fabric

    I’m sure that I am not alone in thinking that these retro icons, as woven by artist Micah Schippa in his tools-at-hand collection, would make really cool cushion covers. A nice, but not overtly geeky, way to pay homage to our technological roots. You can check out Schippa’s work...
  • Oregon man gives himself an awesome, and legal, new name

    And by awesome, I mean awesome—as in Captain Awesome, a name so awesome that it defies awesomeness, which in and of itself is pretty awesome. Captain Awesome, formerly Douglas Allen Smith Jr. of Eugene, Oregon, decided on his unique name change after drawing inspiration from the television show “Chuck,”...
  • Air cannon dents car door with water balloon [video]

    The capabilities of this homemade air cannon are so awesome that any “don’t try this at home” disclaimers are bound to ring hollow on deaf ears. Seriously though, when you are dealing with air pressures of greater than 100psi and firing water balloons hard enough to dent a car...