In this 1974 cult favorite documentary by Jamie Uys, titled Animals are Beautiful People, there is a segment where they showed that animals are just like (some) people because … they like getting drunk, too!
… But after a few weeks the Merulas get overripe and they start dropping from trees. Then all of the animals […]
Scientists who just returned from a survey of the Ross Sea near Antarctica have found giant versions of sea creatures, such as jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and a starfish measuring 2 feet wide! Some of the 30,000 specimens collected could be entirely new species.
A 2,000-mile journey through the Ross Sea that ended Thursday has also […]
Want to go to places no tourist ever dream of visiting? Like Chernobyl, Beirut, and Congo? Well, the VICE Guide to Travel is the the travel guidebook for you!
But even those places don’t compare to where Shane Smith and his team managed to go next: North Korea, the Hermit Kingdom.
The first leg of the trip […]
If you tell photographer Izaz Rony where you’ll be at a particular time, he’ll come and take your picture without you knowing it.
Using information provided earlier about their weekly routine, the photographer will arrive on the scene, and unseen, take shots of the subject. The subject will be photographed walking through the streets, going about […]
Homophobes are everywhere these days. They are a reality of today’s society, lets face it. And they need their own hot dogs.Thanks Reea
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Oh my God! Are there holes in those cows? Yes there are.Read moreIn order to perform experiments on cows, scientists have developed a way to surgically make permanent holes in their stomachs in order to study their digestive systems. The holes are called fistulas, which make the cows fistulated. One can feed the cow, and […]
With this blog, consider every single topic known to man covered. Ladies and gentlemen, I proudly present Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians.
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In the middle of this interview with rapper DMX, it becomes clear that he’s never heard of Barack Obama before.
Q: Barack Obama, yeah.A: Barack?!
Q: Barack.A: What the fuck is a Barack?! Barack Obama. Where he from, Africa?
Q: Yeah, his dad is from Kenya.A: Barack Obama?
Q: Yeah.A: What the fuck?! That ain’t no fuckin’ name, yo. […]
To celebrate their 20th anniversary, sandwich restaurant chain Erbert and Gerbert created a giant air-powered Candle Cannon to blow out the candles on their birthday cake.
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how the Candle Cannon was created.
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This new video of “Big Dog,” the amazing quadrupedal robot from Boston Dynamics, shows of its latest tricks: the ability to walk through snow and even over ice, catching itself when it slips and falls. Its normal gait is unnatural, but when it starts to scramble to recover it looks eerily real.
Scoop: New video of […]
Every year, Shell (yes, the giant evil oil company) puts on a little PR banquet in the name of vehicle efficiency called the Eco-Marathon. It’s part of the long-standing tradition of oil companies blaming car companies for the excesses of the fossil fuel economy while car companies just as joyfully blame oil companies.
Nonetheless, it’s a […]
Yes the web is awash with news of Internet Explorer 8. We’re like lemmings that way, it seems like every blog I read (116 says Google Reader) has some news of IE 8. Given the mad dash to the finish line for South by Southwest, I haven’t bothered to download or play yet, but I […]
Mike Linksvayer, the CTO of Creative Commons, runs the numbers of Nine Inch Nails’s Creative Commons download experiment and discovers that it only took the band two days to exceed the typical net from a massive-selling traditional CD release. The band sold $750,000 worth of “limited edition deluxe sets,” plus an unknowable further sum from […]
“It should be pretty simple,” David M naïvely stated, “just look in the Agent_ProductLines table, right?”
“Uhhh,” David's coworker, James, replied in a slightly condescending tone, “no.” David was starting to get used to such responses. Nothing in his new job was “pretty simple” to simple to do.
“Okaaay… so how exactly can we tell […]
YouTube has been testing higher bitrate encodings of it videos, which you can see if you add a &fmt=8 or &fmt=16 to the video url. Historically, all videos have been delivered to the lowest common denominator: sorenson encoded 320×240. By adding &fmt=6 to the URL, the video is served up in 448×336 resolution and […]
Designer Stephane de Sousa’s produced a prototype “minimalist bedside table” with “a waterproof surface, bookshelf, and a simple way to remember where you left off on last night’s reading.” It’s the last one that really gets me here.
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A pilot tries to land this Airbus A320 in 150mph crosswind while the passengers puke and pray.
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Amazon’s launched a Linux-based downloader for its DRM-free MP3 music store — fantastic news! Now if they’d only change the terms-of-service for the store to something sensible like “Don’t do anything illegal with this music.”
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(Thanks, Pete!)
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The Shrine of the Mall Ninja collects the posts of “Gecko45,” a poster to a gun-enthusiast message-board, who claimed to be a mall security guard trained in ninjitsu who had been given special dispensation to use machineguns after the saved the mayor’s newphew from being sodomized near the Gap store, bravely stepping in where the […]