Bear Cub Fight Club Cafe

Two more cyperpunk shots from
Edward Ander/aka Edwarander/Alex Kristanas

Some baby goats, kidding around.

More Phantom Touch games-playing from cats.

This is what I think of your "commands."

Are you our mummy?

This is a fun, simple magic trick. It illustrates the reason magicians always say "Never give away the trick." It's because the trick is always... dumb isn't the right word. Magic tricks are clever, but they're clever in a dumb way. They exploit a very dumb assumption or failure to consider dumb possibilities. If you don't guess the secret of a magic trick, it might be because you're not thinking cleverly enough, but it's equally possible you're not thinking stupidly enough.

Once you see the trick, you're immediately unimpressed. You don't think, "Boy that magician was clever." You think, "Boy, was I stupid to not have seen through that."

So here's the trick. What makes it clever is that it's so stupid.

High-magnification video of a dragonfly wiping raindrops off her eyes. Kinda neat.

This is how I feel in most situations in life.

Kind of funny: The orange ape can't open the coconut. At 0:05, the ape at the rear of the photo makes the universal, trans-species, "What the hell is wrong with this guy?" hand-gesture.

Another deleted scene from Maximum Overdrive.

Am I being punked? I'm 75-88% sure I'm being punked.

Goose takes on platoon, wins.

Another of those "Strandbeast" walking sculptures, driven by the wind.

At Rumble, just a Great Dane chillin' in a pool, hangin' out on her floatie.

Slugger mutt.

Amazon's subsidiary Zoox introduces its self-driving autonomous taxi.

I remember this snake from sixth grade, embarrassing me by climbing the rope in gym class like a pro but refusing to explain to me the trick to it.

Six-time world swimming champion Yuliya Efimova puts in a swimming practice from home. Without a pool.

Birds are dumb.

posted by Ace at 07:35 PM

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