The Chemistry of Sriracha

What’s the secret of Sriracha sauce? Pepper, of course. This video from The American Chemical Society explains why chili pepper is so wonderful to our senses. But it’s not the only ingredient. Enjoy your Sriracha, but use it sparingly. After all, it has very little chance of going bad. (via Geeks Are Sexy)

2-Minute Morning Quickie

This simple advertisement for a breakfast sandwich may leave you hungry, or may leave you smoking a cigarette and ready for a nap, I don’t know. It’s full of double entendres from start to finish, and if you go back and watch a second time, you’ll see symbolism in every object placed in the kitchen. But everything is entirely plausible for a breakfast sandwich recipe, if that’s how you choose to look at it. However, it will hard to keep a straight face if you watch this with your parents or children. See the French version, too. Is it hot in here, or is it just me? (via Daily of the Day)

Happy We Are From Tatooine

Star Wars characters are happy to dance to Pharrell Williams’ hit song “Happy,” even Storm Troopers and Tusken raiders! The delightful video is almost as interesting as the group of folks who made it: Star Wars Tunisia. You recall that Tunisia is where the scenes on Tatooine were filmed, and the sets are still there. These Star Wars fans take full advantage of that fact, and are “happy” about it.

STAR WARS TUNISIA is a fan club. It aims to gather and inform Tunisian Star Wars fans, and communicate with others all over the world.
So from Tatooine, welcome everybody :)

(via Geeks Are Sexy)

Taliban Meatballs

(via Buzzfeed)

Best Friends

A girl and her dog take a look backward at the life they’ve shared growing up together. You may want to get a hankie before you watch. The ad for Chevy was directed by Lloyd Lee Choi. http://lloydchoi.com/ Yes, believe it or not, it’s a car ad. It should send you right out to buy a car adopt a dog from the local shelter. (via Digg)

The Penalty

Playing Star Wars with your kids is so much more fun when you can summon the power of… static electricity! Your kids may be impressed beyond belief, or they may be fighting off nightmares afterward. This moment of inspired scientific role-playing is brought to you by Lunarbaboon.

Monsieur COK

Monsieur Cok is an award-winning short film by Franck Dion. A bomb factory owner decides to save money by automating, but his former employees aren’t too happy about robots taking their jobs. One is angry enough to take matters into his own hands. And then it gets weird. Read more about the film at its website. (via Everlasting Blort)

King Kitten

(via The Chive)

Wind Up Bots

Fernando Livschitz of Black Sheep Films produced a fantasy world in which robots and other windup toys of various sizes roam the streets of Beunos Aires. The film makes such sights seem both normal and altogether silly at the same time. And now I wish I had some windup toys like these… small size, of course. (via the Presurfer)

Safe Combination

(via Bad Newspaper)

Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)

From The Cleverlys. (via Daily Picks and Flicks)

Broken Road

(via Arbroath)

Jurassic Cats

Run for your lives! No, hide and be really quiet! The cats are coming, and they’re as big as dinosaur of some sort in this remix of Jurassic Park, featuring cats in the roles of the raptors. (via Buzzfeed)

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From Cyanide and Happiness.

27 Amazing Facts About Comic Strips

Remember newspaper comic strips? Of course you do -you may still read them today, although you probably do so online. We all had our favorite strips, from Thimble Theater to Doonesbury to Calvin and Hobbes. I recall well when Farley died in the strip For Better or For Worse. It was certainly sad, but while all the other characters aged in real time, Farley had been around for twice a dog’s normal lifespan. John Green has plenty of other stories from the comic strips in this week’s mental_floss video. You already know about Peanuts, but many of these stories will be new trivia for you.

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11 French Travel Tips for Visiting America.

The intellectual bankruptcy of claiming the poor merely 'envy' the rich.

A Brief History of First Ladies on Sitcoms.

Black Angel: The Lost Star Wars Movie. (via Digg)

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