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I don't usually condone venturing into the scuzzy precincts of LiveLeak, but this video taken onboard a cruise ship in stormy seas is worth the risk of contamination. Never before has so much furniture slid so far at so many portly passengers. Citizen journalism wins again!

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This clip starts as a cheerful ditty about potato salad, then takes an unsettling turn into Tod Browning territory. Make sure you watch until the end for the Ross Sisters' grand finale. You know what they say: the family that contorts their bodies beyond the limits of known human physiology together stays together. We're just glad the potato salad cartel had the product-placement budget to make all this possible.

(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

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Some of you might be too young to remember, but back in the 1970s, children used to go outside. In fact, children used to go outside without any supervision at all. They'd ride bikes, explore the woods, use toy guns… and no one thought it was strange! They called it "play" and it was considered to be an important part of growing up.

Today, of course, a bunch of kids leaping off cliffs and climbing trees and holding a camera would probably end with one of them tazed and the rest at Child Services waiting for the MPAA. But in the 1970s, nobody cared! And that's why this seven minute version of King Kong exists:

Now, we'll warn you, there's also a Star Trek and a really fantastic adaptation of Alien, so either these kids were quite prolific or there's something else going on. And it's the Internet, so you never can tell when some viral mastermind is going to break your heart. But, whatever. We're going to trust this time. Because even if it turns out to be fake, it's still kinda cool.

We found it at Ain't It Cool News. They found it at Easy Dreamer.

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Videographer, blogger, St. Louisan, and all-around innaresting fella Bill Streeter had some nice things to say about Woot in our past life in the Gateway/Mound/Murder City. But I swear that even if I'd never heard of the dude, I'd still rep this video where he uses kinetic typography to bring the "paper bag" monologue from The Wire to life. Content, form, and presentation unite in Bill's capable hands. (There's some pretty mild NSFW language, but nothing you couldn't hear on prime-time network TV.)

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via Nerdcore

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Remember Bdale Garbee’s amazing rocket launch? Last year? He stuffed a gigantic model rocket with Woot monkeys and launched them into the blue?

OK, if you missed that video when it came out, maybe you should watch it now:

It’s inspiring, for one thing. Plus you’ll need it for context. Because see, there’s an exciting new development in the case of the missing six astro-monkeys:

Welcome back, marooned monkeys! That’s two more accounted for, four more to go.

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there was one bad muthashut-yo-mouth by the name of Lando Calrissian. Some bearded fella in a plaid shirt tried to write and direct a story about him back in the seventies, but the big studios felt that the world wasn't ready for a man so smooth, so roguish, so bent against an empire built on the principles of The Man to be saving the universe. So the project ended up scrapped, rewritten, and re-shot to feature some whiny farm boy. I hear it was fairly popular at some point.

Oh, but isn't it wonderful to dream of what could have been?

I'd make a joke about how this deserves my money more than any of the prequels, but then what would the rest of the internet do? Other than quote that one scene from Chasing Amy, I mean.

via io9

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Directed by comic genius Ernie Kovacs with a score by musical genius Esquivel, this 1961 clip is like a Pixar short set in the offices of Sterling-Cooper, without so much as a single computer-generated pixel. Let it bring a little joy to your office as you struggle toward the weekend.

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Yeah, yeah, we know they're not actually delicious and fattening breakfast dishes. The knock on gamers is that they're level 40 Galka warriors online and wheezing tubs of goo IRL, but the gang at PC Gamerz in Kaneohe, HI are not to be trifled with, as some would-be robbers recently discovered.

This definitely falls under the "don't try this at home" disclaimer, but we admire the denizens of PC Gamerz for standing up to some burgeoning bullies. Sure, they're lucky they weren't stabbed or shot or worse, but we have to respect people willing to fight back. We could use more people like that, mainly because we need someone to hide behind while we scream and wet ourselves at the sight of danger.

And to the foiled criminals, this is why George Clooney takes so long assembling the perfect team for his heists, guys. You can't have your last-minute-addition-wild-card flip out midway through the perfectly-orchestrated robbery and start punching monitors like a low-rent Mr. Blonde.

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You guys like movies with mind-bending twists and somewhat confusing endings? Recent movie box office numbers certainly seem to say you do. With that in mind, we'd like to call your attention to a slightly underground gem that you can now watch for free through Google Video.

Primer was released with very little fanfare back in 2004, but it's gotten a fair amount of street cred among fans of time travel and sci-fi as the years have gone by. Made with only $7000, Shane Carruth's tale of young engineers and paradoxes is a film that almost demands repeated viewings to piece together just what's going on. Sure, you could google the cheat sheet flowcharts that many of the movie's fans have put together, but where's the fun in that?

[via io9]

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