The act of flying into space on a spaceship, while terrifying, must also be a magical and entirely humbling moment. In this clip former space station commander Chris Hadfield talks about the emotion and awe felt the day when you round the corner, see the ship that will take you into the cosmos and the [...]

Ken Block’s back with a new Gymkhana and this time he takes his car-driving insanity onto the streets of Los Angeles—fortunately for him and other drivers the streets are deserted thanks to the LAPD, so Ken gets to shoot about at ridiculous speeds doing stunts that teeter on the edge of madness.

If you wanted an indication of the excitement felt and enjoyed by the players of MMOG space battle epic EVE, then this trailer will give you not just an indication, but you’ll be able to hear it in the players’ voices. ‘This is EVE’ does away with an actor’s voiceover telling you what to expect [...]

If standup comedy was big back in Abraham Lincoln’s time, maybe he would’ve been a great standup comedian. That’s what Louis CK imagines anyway in this Saturday Night Live sketch that takes things to absurd levels as Louis’ Lincoln becomes a full blown parody of his show “Louie.”

Cymatics is the science of visualizing sound through its audio vibrations—and New Zealand musician Nigel Stanford uses a variety of experiments to show how it works. For different components of the track Stanford uses different materials to visualise them, so we can a large variety of mesmerizing images.

So what would happen if three grandmas who’d never smoked weed before in their lives took a hit from the bong? Well, watch this video and you’ll see as Paula, Dorothea, and Deirdre from Washington get high and giggle and eat chips and generally look like they’re having a great time.

Why did we stop dreaming? More than anything we’ve gone and upset Neil deGrasse Tyson with our lack ambition to want to get to the stars and dance around with the astral bodies. You know, it’s not good enough, Neil’s on a major downer about it and when Neil’s down everybody’s down. So sort it [...]

In a perfect world, presided over by Jon Lajoie, all Dating Services Commercials would be like this, so we could all have a good laugh every now and then. But you wouldn’t want to end up with this girl, what sane person wants to date somebody who doesn’t even know who RoboCop is? Just remember: [...]

If you’re a gamer of a certain age you’ll have fond memories of Street Fighter II, and you probably think it’s one of the greatest beat ‘em ups—or greatest game even—ever. It couldn’t possibly be improved you no doubt think, but it can. Oh yes. And that improvement has come in the form of bleating [...]

Even without the visuals of half-naked men in horse masks and chicken costumes and women dancing behind a giant band-aid, the lyrics to this song are enough to make you sit up and think, WTF? Because they mainly consist of the female singer making cluck-cluck chicken noises.

The guys behind one of the best webcomics out there have finally gotten around to releasing the first episode of their web series—and it’s exactly as you’d expect, full of mayhem and off-the-wall humor and butts, lots and lots of butts in series of sketches that will sure to bring the lolz in its ten [...]