Thursday, December 22, 2016
BB8 Falls in Love
Our favorite droid (or at least one of them) sees what he likes, and likes what he sees hanging from the Christmas tree. (via The Daily Dot)
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Darth Santa Strikes Back
Visiting your grandparents isn't always something a little child looks forward to, even around Christmas. But when you are Ben Solo, the prospect can be truly terrifying. However, it turns out that Darth Vader is a much better grandfather than he was a father. At least, from a kid's point of view. This is a sequel to last year's video that introduced Darth Santa. Maybe by this time next year, he'll have even more relatives to menace. (via Uproxx)
Assembling IKEA Furniture on LSD
Not very efficient, but they have a good time. This could take days. Contains NSFW language. (via Neatorama)
Christmas Koi Dance
The U.S. diplomatic mission to Japan, led by ambassador Caroline Kennedy, made a video Christmas greeting. Participants include the staff from the offices in Tokyo, Sapporo, Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka, and Naha. They are performing the Koi Dance (Love Dance) as performed on Hoshino Gen's TV show Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu, the hottest show of the year.
Bonus: Here's Ambassador Kennedy's personal Christmas video.
(via Metafilter)
17 Delightful Gingerbread Constructions
A gingerbread house can be just a house, or it can be a medium for fantastic creations, from mansions to spaceships. Check out these creative gingerbread sculptures that go bigger, more intricate, or outside the box, in a list I posted at mental_floss.
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Here is the final popular vote count of the 2016 election just in case you want to feel bad.
Swiss Deaf Association Chooses "Donald Trump" as Sign of the Year. Take a look.
The Twelve Days of Christmas – NASA Earth Science Edition. (via Everlasting Blort)
The Strange History of the Die Hard Movies. No one knew there would eventually be five films, and each one has a production story.
A single father sought tips from a cosmetology school on how to style his daughter's hair. A couple of years later, he is a hair artist, and his daughter has many Christmas styles to show off.
Dramatizing Transience: How TV Reflects Our Shifting Concept of “Home.” We are no longer tethered to a place, or a time slot, or a network.
What Happened to Dorothy's Ruby Slippers? There were several pairs made for The Wizard of Oz, and the pair at the Smithsonian are mismatched.
There's a huge problem with how we judge rape cases. The concept of "reasonable doubt" leads to acquittals, repeat offenders, and reduced trust in victims.
Contrary, Lazy, or Subversive (but Funny) Christmas Decorations. When you have some lights, but refuse to be merry.
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Snowboarding with Drone
Casey Neistat has recently dressed up as Santa Claus and let a drone pull him through the snow on a snowboard. And then even up into the air! His astounding Christmas greeting has an alien abduction vibe in there, too. The video is essentially an ad, but you don't even know that until the very end. You can see some behind-the-scenes video to get some clues about how they pulled it off. (via reddit)
Tweet of the Day
this is the best screensaver cos whenever i get a notification, Kanye holds it up for me pic.twitter.com/W3bpDt82MA— mb (@michaellbutlerr) September 29, 2016
(via Buzzfeed)
Новогодняя сказка
This video is weird, brutal, and cuts against the grain of out modern sensibilities in many ways. A busy mom gets a lesson in what's important from Father Christmas. It's in Russian, but you don't really need the dialogue to understand. Believe it or not, this is an ad for a bank. (via Boing Boing)
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People are just now finding out that reindeer are real. Can you blame them, after that revelation about Santa Claus?
Was the Star of Bethlehem the Planet Jupiter? Considering what the traveling wise men knew about astrology, the theory makes sense.
The Mystery of Why Chattanooga Raised Its Downtown by a Level. They had plenty of reasons, we just don't know much about the decision.
Genghis Khan: The Father of Globalization? The 13th-century conqueror is considered heroic, not barbaric, in his native Mongolia.
Why do Republicans want to repeal Obamacare so much? Because it would be a big tax cut for the rich.
The British Medical Journal has released their annual Christmas issue, which contains a slate of satirical articles, many of them free-to-read. (via Metafilter)
One Freakish Event That Led to You and Ewe and Yew.
Now you can fact-check Trump’s tweets — in the tweets themselves. (via The Daily Dot)
Defy Age Using a 3,600-Year-Old Face Cream Recipe With a Deadly Ingredient.
Monday, December 19, 2016
The Star Wars Musical
In this alternate history video, we explore George Lucas' original musical version of the Star Wars saga. We get a taste of the musical numbers "Tosche Station," "Scruffy-Looking Nerf Herder," "I Don't Like Sand," and "Conceived by Midichlorians." I doubt you'll see anything sillier today. This video is from the Gregory Brothers. (via Digg)
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There Are Basically Only Two Types of Bad Bosses, According to Years of Research. Believe me, you'd rather have the incompetent one.
Who Are the Real Caesar, Melba and General Tso? These and other foods were named for real people.
The dangerous health consequences of pessimism. Grumpy old men, beware.
Bizarre But Clever Christmas Decorations. Imagination counts more than wattage anytime.
World War 2.0 is following the course of that war in real time, as it happened 75 years ago. But there's a twist: the presentation is a news website, as if it were happening today.
Creepy Bizarre Vintage Toys. (via the Presurfer)
Why Donald Trump always gets away with it.
Star Wars Killed A Universe To Save The Galaxy. (via Digg)
A Wonderful Life: How Postwar Christmas Embraced Spaceships, Nukes, Cellophane. Nothign says Christmas like aluminum.
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Tweet of the Day
— buffalozoo (@buffalozoo) December 17, 2016
The otters at the Buffalo Zoo know exactly what to do with snow -go sledding! With that silky dense fur, they slide nicely and stay warm, too. (via Uproxx)
Trump Gets a Christmas Visitor
Alex Baldwin appeared on Saturday Night Live last night to portray Trump as he gets ready for Christmas. I love how the show is able to slip in jokes from as recently as Saturday, when Trump used the non-word "unpresidented" in a Tweet instead of "unprecedented." My spellcheck had a hard time letting me say that.
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