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Last night, the University of Alabama embarrassed Notre Dame in the BCS National Championship game, defeating the Fighting Irish 42-14 in a matchup that wasn't even as close as the...

Patrick Bateman Is Envious of Coworkers’ Pokemon Cards

As the story goes, Lionsgate had geared up to release a 10th anniversary Blu-Ray edition of the new classic American Psycho, complete with a deleted scene that shows how t...

Nicolas Cage Turns 49, Reddit Celebrates Their OneTrueGod

If you spend a little while on reddit (or browse AllReddits), you're bound to come across a strange subreddit or two. Some of them are awful, just awful. They know who they are. So...

Firefighter’s Helmet Cam Takes Us Through a Year on the Job [VIDEO]

Firefighters have a dangerous job - everybody knows that. But it's rare to see a first-person account of the daily grind of one of the nation's bravest public servants. One De...

Robots Perform Ace of Spades; Your Jokes Are Welcome

I'm not going to make any metal jokes about Compressorhead, the all-robot band seen in the video below playing the Motorhead classic "Ace of Spades." I'm not going to talk about ho...

Mesmerizing Animation Drawn with Coffee, Ink, and White-Out

Well this is truly mesmerizing. Artist Jake Fried, a Boston-based animator tickles your brain with this elaborate hand-drawn animation done entirely with ink, coffe, and white-o...

1% of the World is Drunk Right Now and Other Awesome Facts [VIDEO]

Our favorite YouTube science animators AsapSCIENCE are back with another video of cool scientific facts, and thi...

Girls Spike Parents’ Milkshakes to Bypass Internet Curfew

No, you haven't stumbled upon The Onion. When I was a teenager, my favorite comeback to my mom's overblown understandable berat...

Mom Reduces 8-Year-Old to Snotty Mess by Telling Him He Accidentally Bought $50K Mustang on eBay

Kids and technology occasionally run up against each other in unpredictable or dangerous ways. Kids and technology that is linked to your bank account - now that's danger on a whol...

BuzzFeed Lands $19.3 Million in Funding, Passes 40 Million Uniques in December

Viral trendsetters BuzzFeed have just announced a significant cash injection - $19.3 million led by NEA. Previous investors RRE, Hearst, SoftBank, and Lerer Ventures also particip...

The World’s Shortest Escalator, Enthusiastically Sought Out and Taken Seven Times

This guy took a trip to ride the Guinness-certified shortest escalator in the world, because, why not? As he says, it's obviously a thing of beauty and magnificence. The fact that...

Chandler Style Is Your Inevitable Friends/Gangnam Style Mashup of the Day

You thought Gangnam Style was dead, didn't you? Well, it kind of is - at least according to PSY. But fear not, another dance craze is ready to rise up and take its place. OPPA C...

Fireworks Are Beautiful, Especially in Reverse [VIDEO]

Happy New Year, everyone. Still feeling the effects of a long night of partying? Already broken a resolution? Have you accidentally written "2012" on a check yet? Are you still wr...

It’s Christmas, Don’t Forget the Twin Peaks 12 Days of Christmas Song

I don't know where you come from, but where I'm from it's not really Christmas until you've enjoyed the delightfully odd version of the song Twelve Days of Christmas, as sung by ca...

Gangnam Style Hits 1 Billion Views, YouTube Celebrates

As we told you earlier, South Korean rapper PSY's global megahit "Gangnam Style" hi...

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