Watch Tehran-born artist Ali Akbar Beigi work on this gorgeous hyperrealistic portrait. Read the rest

Marble Machine X is an ongoing project by Martin Molin of the band Wintergatan to create an amusingly-complex mobile marble-powered instrument. Read the rest

This is a great clip. If you're into jugglers doing funny things or 500-volt stun guns, you're in for a treat. Read the rest

Scroll down, now you have! Read the rest

You need this. Read the rest

The amazing Owl's Nest Sanctuary For Wildlife shared images of this incredibly beautiful blue-eyed baby deer on their Facebook page. Read the rest

Here's a sweet little sanity break for your achy-breaky brain. Read the rest

Bill Hader's impersonation of Dateline's Keith Morrison has all but replaced the real Keith Morrison in my personal appreciation of Keith Morrison-ness: a folksy, overeager narrative of tragedy made perversely explicit. So it's a delight to see them in the same room.

Here's the classic parody:

I'd very much like to see the Hader-Morrison deepfake.

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Actor Keanu Reeves answers one of life's greatest questions in the way only Keanu Reeves can. Read the rest

“Feels like summer in Norway,” says Tomasz Furmanek, who shot and shared this serene and beautiful video of kayaking down a lazy river on a beautiful April day. Read the rest

This baby set a hospital weight record at birth. Of course it happened in Texas. Read the rest

You've probably never seen a bowler knock down a strike quite like this. I mean, what are the chances?

Wasn't planned or done over and over, it just happened. Triggers asthma at the end.

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Each of those white dots is an octopus. Read the rest

Hope they made her queen instantly. ALL HAIL OUR NEW MATRIARCH. Read the rest

Wow! I'm quite aflutter.

Worn belts + QSound = ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ

That QSound button widens stereo, adds reverb, and applies other audio 'enhancements' intended to heal (or conceal) typical tape trouble. The official website has a glorious Web 1.0 aesthetic of its own. Read the rest

"My company signed up for a $1000/year subscription-based water cooler. It was just so sketchy that I had to make a review," writes Redditor kibitzor on his office's ION Bottleless Water Cooler.

The video that follows is an amusing takedown of the machine as he tries to dispense a simple glass of "mildly carbonated" water from it.

Let your water system boot. Booting is fun to watch.

Wow.

Previously: $1000 smart teapot discontinued and RIP Juicero, the machine that squeezed juice from packets of juice Read the rest

This is deeply weird but also makes perfect sense. Wow. Read the rest