(YouTube link)Surely you remember the useless machine, which did nothing but turn itself off (previously and previously). Here is a variation that made me laugh, from Saskview. -Thanks, Brett!...

(YouTube link) Surprise! Allie Brosch of Hyperbole and a Half looks nothing like the cartoons she draws of herself. But she has some advice on how to put your coat on so you don't look like a fool this winter. -via...

[http://youtu.be/7cl-f8NABMM] (YouTube link)American football, especially between rival colleges, can be an incomprehensible spectacle to anyone outside the US. Stephen Fry reports:Simultaneously preposterous... impressi...

Jason Lee is a wedding photographer, but his really creative side comes out when he shoots his adorable daughters. You'll find more pictures and an interview with Lee at My Modern Met. Link -via reddit...

Our friends at the Annals of Improbable Research bestowed the 2010 Ig Nobel Prizes at a festive ceremony at Harvard University last night. The prizes are for achievements that make people laugh, and then make them think,...

I don’t know about you guys, but I love The Simpsons and I must say that getting to watch The Simpsons while writing about the show was a dream come true for me. Getting to learn about the stories behind many of my fav...

You'll get a kick out of this public service announcement urging British citizens to support publicly funded arts programs, by David Shrigley, who also brought us Pringle of Scotland. The government has proposed a 25...

A team of psychologists showed video footage of male dancers to 37 young women who rated them, and used the results to pinpoint what makes a man a good dancer or a bad dancer. Men who were judged to be good dancers had...

(YouTube link) I know some people who would rather rebuild something ten time than read the directions! Of course, putting something like a deck chair together is infinitely easier when the directions are written by...

Want ads are sometimes hard to figure out because they don't give enough information. This one, however, is confounding because it gives a lot of information! It is supposedly looking for a piano accompanist for a singin...