In this viral footage, shot on a potato and video-compressed with a radish, the best method of organizing nails is revealed. I'm happy to take questions about the thermodynamics of all this, and I'm sure someone will eventually be along to answer them.
Some suspect that the footage is reversed; a commenter on Reddit demonstrated otherwise by actually reversing it (embedded below).
Pants//Off is a mobile escape room based on the concept that you're a secret agent who tried on cutting edge pants only to discover they've been sabotaged and rigged to explode. Can you get them off within 10 minutes?
After getting locked into the pants, the player has to solve all sorts of puzzles using the odd array of tools stuffed in their pockets.
Imagine a mobile escape room experience, but not on a phone ? #SpookyGameJam2019 pic.twitter.com/d8x0qXrthD
— Justin Sales (@Junstix) October 19, 2019
Here's a glimpse of the action:
We made a Pants Escape Room this weekend! Here's a peak of the experience! ??️?
Developed by: @john_scovic, @donherweg, @Junstix, @Daniel__Song pic.twitter.com/rnQQzYHlEu
— Josh Delson (@JoshDelson) October 21, 2019
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As Bruce Lee once said, "Showing off is the fool's idea of glory." Read the rest
I keep this ball and vase trick around because kids like it.
Sure, you are brilliant. We get that know how it works. You can also read this post. While little kids often find card and coins tricks to be a yawn, they love even a lamely presented magic ball and vase!
After you fool them with the trick a few times, sneak the ball insert out and let the kids play with the empty vase.
It is as much fun as fooling your cat with a laser pointer.
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Brian Brushwood of Scam Nation invited Rick Smith Jr. to come on his show and teach people how to toss a coin and control which side it lands on.
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Belly up to the bar for Stephen Molloy's cocktail shaker take on the classic cups and balls magic routine:
I was asked to share my handling here. Hope you guys enjoy :) (Instagram molloy894) from r/Damnthatsinteresting
Forget bottle flipping. Frozen pants flipping is the new hotness (coolness?).
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According to his website, Ryan Hayashi is the "world's most famous samurai entertainer." He's also a helluva magician, as evidenced by this video. In it, he performs a mind-blowing coin trick act (at times one handed!) that leaves both Penn and Teller left wondering what they just watched. The best part of the video might be when Hayashi, a fan of the magic duo since he was a boy, is given the big F.U. award at the end. I don't think he can believe that his childhood heroes have just acknowledged his skill.
Spliced with footage of him skating in his youth, here's a video of skate legend Tony Hawk showing what he can still do at age 50. A lot, as it turns out.
I never imagined being able to skate into my adult life, or that anyone would still care if I did. To celebrate, I did 50 tricks that I've created (and/or pioneered on vert). Thanks to all of you that made this dream possible. It's been an unreal ride, but I'm not done yet.
Previously: Watch Tony Hawk's awesome 900 at age 48
I came for one weird trick; I stayed for the laughter. Read the rest
The Slow Mo Guys invited three Shaolin monks on to throw a needle through a piece of glass in super slow mo, and it's quite interesting to watch at that speed. Read the rest
And yet I can barely get mine to walk down the stairs. (KumaFilms via Kottke)
And if you're not hip to the fantastic story of the Slinky's invention:
In 1943, Richard James, a naval mechanical engineer stationed at the William Cramp and Sons shipyards in Philadelphia, was developing springs that could support and stabilize sensitive instruments aboard ships in rough seas. James accidentally knocked one of the springs from a shelf, and watched as the spring "stepped" in a series of arcs to a stack of books, to a tabletop, and to the floor, where it re-coiled itself and stood upright. James's wife Betty later recalled, "He came home and said, 'I think if I got the right property of steel and the right tension; I could make it walk.'" James experimented with different types of steel wire over the next year, and finally found a spring that would walk. Betty was dubious at first, but changed her mind after the toy was fine-tuned and neighborhood children expressed an excited interest in it. She dubbed the toy Slinky (meaning "sleek and graceful"), after finding the word in a dictionary, and deciding that the word aptly described the sound of a metal spring expanding and collapsing.
Shu Takada, 20, is the 2017 2A (Two Handed Looping style) World Yo-Yo Champion. He took the title last week at the global tournament in Reykjavic, Iceland.
Ah, that classic party trick! Can you punch a bear trap and withdraw your hand before it closes? Read the rest
Convenience always carries costs. In the case of e-commerce, the surge in residential deliveries is causing in urban gridlock. Citylab goes out on delivery routes for their interesting report: Read the rest
