The sport of tricking is not what you might expect
The sport of tricking is all about getting off the ground and doing as much crazy stuff as you can before touching back down. Oh, is that the sport of tricking?
The best catch in baseball recently involved a bat
In case your sports-nut aunt hasn't emailed this to you yet, here's the best catch in baseball last week, by the Mets' Luis Giullorme. And in case that YouTube video should get yanked... pic.twitter.com/rpBghlWXUk — SportsNet New York (@SNYtv) March 2, 2017
George W Bush demands credit for strategery
President George W. Bush wants credit for his Bushisms. “I had dinner with Lorne Michaels, the head of Saturday Night Live, and he said, ‘I put a great speechwriter on you, and he came up with “strategery.”’ And I said, ‘Wait a minute, I said “strategery.”’ And he said, ‘No,
Ytterby is a tiny Swedish town that has four elements named after it
Welcome to Ytterby, the tiny Swedish town that has four elements named after it. h/t The Kid Should See This
Forty-two thousand French people want Obama for president in France
"Oui, on peut!" Forty-two thousand people have signed a petition to elect Barack Obama president in France. The main problem? He's not French.
Artist Mark Leckey reminisces over 30 years of British nightclub culture
Artist Mark Leckey, a Turner Prize winner (still on view at MoMA PS1), reminisces over his iconic video Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, "a roughly chronological overview of 30 years of British nightclub culture." You asked me what kind of a state I was in when I made the
How the BBC makes its nature movies so cinematic
How drones, gimbals, and other technological advances have helped the BBC make its beloved nature documentaries more cinematic.
When the wrong winner is read at the Oscars, blame the accountants
Huffington Post published an article about what would happen if someone read the wrong winner at the Oscars—and then it actually happened last night. In case you missed it, Faye Dunaway read La La Land right over Warren Beatty's incredulity. As predicted, the auditors knew something was
Scenes of little people moving around mountains
From the Rome Film Festival, Lois Patiño's lovely Mountain in Shadow.
Double-click to launch the Black Death (PC only)
Double-click to launch the Black Death (PC only). Inspired by Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Triumph Of Death (1562), descent.exe launches a swarm of rats that infests your desktop, overtaking an entire village and leaving scores of bodies in its wake.