Entries Tagged as 'cool'

Wednesday, June 19th, 2013

Empower Women, Enable Possibilities

Being an entrepreneur is all about empowering yourself to create a business that’s right for you. It’s about facing up and rising to different challenges, overcoming the day-to-day demands, learning and planning for the future. These stories show how, by overcoming the various challenges and with dedication, hard work, belief and ambition, you can reach [...]

Wednesday, June 19th, 2013

Reg Explains Cricket

Reginald D Hunter helps out his fellow Americans by adding his own commentary to a typical game of local cricket. He doesn’t hold back when describing this most English of sports, laying it down like he sees it, and making with the lulz at the terribly Britishness of the whole affair. “There is no way [...]

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

Louis CK – Live at The Beacon Theater

Louis CK kills it at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan, New York and you can watch if for free (if you have a spare hour). Which is kind of ironic considering with this video he decided to forgo third-party digital distribution channels and physical media and sell the concert straight from his website for download [...]

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

Miniature Car Chase

If you were planning on making the trip to the cinema to see Fast and Furious 6, don’t bother, because this is far better and it won’t cost you anything. It’s an epic chase that involves police patrol cars chasing down a runaway car and involves collisions and crashes using super detailed Tomica models to [...]

Monday, June 17th, 2013

JavaZone 2013: Javapocalypse

Making something funny out of Javascript is not an easy achievement, but these guys manage to do it, getting in killer lines like “He’s the Javatar!” and with a tagline that states “It’s supposed to write once, run everywhere. But it’s more like write once, ruin everything” you know the in-jokes are going to come [...]

Monday, June 17th, 2013

Prank War 7: The Half Court Shot

Pranks just don’t come much more epic than what you are about to witness. This is Streeter, he got totally pranked a while back by his buddy Amir at College Humor at the Yankee stadium and humiliated in front of thousands. And, so, he seeks to get his revenge in this video, where he sets [...]

Saturday, June 15th, 2013

Taboo: The Beginning of Erotic Cinema

You probably don’t need a reason to watch porn, you spend most of your day watching it anyway. But with this documentary that charts its rise from the 1920s at least when someone comes and busts you and asks you what you’re doing you can say you’re gaining knowledge, learning about our cultural history, and [...]

Saturday, June 15th, 2013

Go Kindergarten (feat. Robyn & Sean Combs & Paul Rudd)

The Lonely Island’s recently released “Go Kindergarten” stars Paul Rudd and Sean Combs and is a totes absurd parody of those ridiculous and OTT club anthems. And to show how dedicated to getting it right they are, it even features Robyn, who herself has been responsible for some club classics over the years. And to [...]

Friday, June 14th, 2013

Best Story Ever: Jackie Chan Picks A Fight With Bruce Lee… And Loses

Jackie Chan starred in the Bruce Lee classic Enter the Dragon and here he recounts coming into contact with the kung-fu master, whilst filming a fight scene, who slaps him round the face with a stick and was meant to miss, but instead it hit him, sending him into a dizzy spin. But the good [...]

Thursday, June 13th, 2013

Face Folding 2

In an alternate universe, that exists parallel to our own, film characters are affected by a strange disorder known as face folding, it also causes their voices to rise too and it can happen to anyone, but mostly it happens to Harry Potter and Scott Pilgrim, and characters from Star Wars. So spare a thought [...]

Wednesday, June 12th, 2013

Is Math a Feature of the Universe or a Feature of Human Creation?

OK, enough cat videos and people falling over in kids’ playgrounds, it’s time to contemplate math and whether or not it exists or whether humanity dreamt it up and has been wrapped up in our own creation ever since. It’s like a math class but if the cast of Inception were your teachers. We need [...]

Wednesday, June 12th, 2013

This is Shanghai

No, not that over there, that’s not Shanghai, but this here in this video is. Caught on camera in all its futuristic, 4000 skyscrapers glory — but photographer Rob Whitworth doesn’t just capture the stunning skyline but goes beyond that to find out what lies beneath in the metropolis below, including the street food and [...]

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

Lisa Bu: How Books Can Open Your Mind

So books can open your mind, huh? Surely they’re only useful to reach the cookie jar on the kitchen shelf. But no, Lisa Bu, TED content distribution manager, here relates how books and stories taught her to forge her own path in life after her parents wanted her to follow a more mundane and well-travelled [...]

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

Tony Awards 2013 Opening Number – Neil Patrick Harris and Mike Tyson

Together at last you’re probably thinking, and so it goes that the boxing bad boy and the man who started out life as Dougie Howser team up for a song and dance number. And what a number, as Harris pulls out all the stops for this one, practically winning a Tony himself and showing that [...]

Monday, June 10th, 2013

Brian Williams Raps Snoop Dogg (Jimmy Fallon)

You may not think that NBC News anchor Brian Williams was much of a gangsta rapper, but you better think again, because here he is, spitting some rhymes, laying down the lyrics to Dr. Dre’s “Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang”. OK sure, it may’ve been cobbled together from mashing up his appearances on the [...]

Monday, June 10th, 2013

Let’s Talk About #2

If you have a product like wet wipes for men (grown men at that) then you need to explain yourself. And explain yourself they do, Dollar Shave Club that is. Because going for a number two and just using toilet paper doesn’t seem to be enough these days, instead you have to use toilet paper [...]

Sunday, June 9th, 2013

God’s Eye View

Pretend like you’re an omniscient being lowering your powerful gaze to the mere mortals of earth with this montage of the God’s Eye View shot from a range of films, which you can occupy your time with by guessing each one. Fun times.

Sunday, June 9th, 2013

Bleeding My Pant

WARNING: This girl is strange, if you see her. RUN! Yep, this is one of those weird parts of the interwebs, where the less uninhibited of society are able to simply film themselves doing all sorts of inane, nonsensical acts whilst singing Leona Lewis songs (’Keep Bleeding My Ears’), this time with sanitary towels and [...]

Saturday, June 8th, 2013

FU SCIENCE | ADHD

Science, what a joker it can be. First it tells us the earth is round and now it’s trying to pretend that dinosaurs — that’s those giant lizards that walked the earth a long time ago — had feathers. FEATHERS!? HAHA SCIENCE, HAHA! You certainly are a card, so lets all get in a line [...]

Friday, June 7th, 2013

Midnight Juggernauts – Memorium

Most of us are familiar with CGI, you better be because it’s in 99% of the things you watch on a daily basis. But you’re probably not totally up to scratch with its history, well now’s the time to acquaint yourself with it in the format of a music video for Midnight Juggernauts’ “Memorium”. So [...]