Videos

  • Slingshot maestro risks life and digits to sling saw blades [video]

    Everybody’s favorite slingshot engineer Joerg Sprave is back risking his life and digits again with another dangerous-looking slingshot contraption. His latest creation is a oversized slingshot that fires rotating saw blades… fun times. I would add the usual, “don’t try this at home” disclaimer, but the people that are...
  • You really, really, really don’t want to go to Russian prison

    Over my years on this planet I’ve met a few people who have spent time behind bars. Something that I gleaned from their stories is that each person’s experience will differ according to their own character and their country of imprisonment’s philosophy on crime and punishment. In some countries...
  • Unluckiest man on Earth or awesome faker [Double lightning strike]

    Lightning is some dangerous stuff and despite what many of the “experts” in this video’s comment thread on YouTube will tell you – it does sometimes strike twice and doesn’t always follow the rules. It is lightning man, it does whatever the hell it wants. Anyway, it could be...
  • Epic rap battles are storming the Internets!

    New on the Internet are what are now known as Epic Rap Battles, where the humorists take two figures of (some) importance and have them duke it out in a battle of the wits, over rap music. I have to admit having toyed with this idea myself but never...
  • Crazy downhill mud ride [video]

    Mountain biker Filip Polc takes to a dangerous muddy track in Colombia’s coffee country and kindly brings us along for a ride thanks to his helmet camera. Note that if you work in an environment that discourages the use of profanity then you might want to keep the speakers...
  • The trick shot Doc [video]

    This video shows a possibly fake doctor messing around with a range of stuff that you might find in a doctor’s office: x-ray film, tongue depressors and the like. It is a short video that is really worth watching all the way to the climactic conclusion – I am...
  • Did the Czech president just steal a pen?

    I don’t want to go out and impugn a national leader by claiming that he swiped a pen off a desk during a national visit to Chile – so I will let the video speak for itself. He opens the pen box and seems to like what he sees....
  • Making coffee in Afghanistan

    A group of Canadian troops made a video that details the complicated process of making coffee in a combat zone. Please note that the video makers are soldiers in a combat zone – the language that they use is savory to say the least and may offend some viewers...
  • Big Wheel vs. New York City bus

    Mark Malkoff took to the streets of New York in a big wheel to race the city’s famously slow buses. To keep things legal (riding bicycles on sidewalks is against the law in NYC) Mark rode his big wheel through traffic....