Merry Christmas!

Today I discovered a new Trek Christmas music video:

A version of "All I Want For Christmas is You" that's a mashup of Trek clips where characters say each word. Apparently the only character to use the word "Christmas" in the franchise is Archer, as the clip is reused a lot.

World's Largest K'nex Ball Contraption

Have you noticed yet that I'm a fan of Rube Goldberg machines? ;)

Along with LEGO, Erector, and Domino Rally, K'nex was a big part of my childhood.

Vi Hart's YouTube channel.

Many years ago I stumbled upon her video about Pi vs. Tau, but took no real notice of the rest of her channel.

Well, today I stumbled upon her channel from a completely different direction (I think it was a comment on a CGP Grey video, but don't quote me on that), and can now recommend more videos if you happen to like humorous mathematical explanations:

Mathematical ways to eat candy buttons. (P.S. I'm not really a fan of candy buttons.)

Playing with toy snakes (boy, do I miss playing Snakes on my TI calculator in high school)

Silly Bands battle (wait for the Hitchhiker's Guide gags)

Properties of a Mobius Strip (via playing around with Fruit by the Foot)

Taking turduckens to the next level, including the nomenclatural problems.

Playing with cookie tesselations, then going 3D!

Someone using a bunch of Rubik's Cubes to make a stop-motion Mario video.

That is, by grouping a bunch of Rubik's Cubes together you can create "sprites".

Little girl loses her teddy bear on a train, and Twitter helps reunite them.

Can I get an "awww!"?

Armatron robot arm toys.

I stumbled upon a YouTube video discussing the repair of these things and let me tell you, it was a nostalgic boot to the head. I had one of these as a child. I don't recall doing much with it, but hey, I had a robot!

New Power Rangers trailer.

Hopes are a little higher, but still in the red. I could've done without the urine sample jar.

I Knew You Were Tribbles (When You Dropped In)

I just discovered a new Trek fan music video.

The very aptly-titled "Probably the Hardest Super Mario Level in Existence."

Never before have my thoughts cycled so many times between "this is really impressive!" and "this guy is completely bonkers!"

Someone takes control of the "camera" in Ocarina of Time to show us new angles and secrets in the game.

It's been almost twenty years, and I'm still learning new things about this game...

Mario Theme Played With RC Car and Bottles

That is, a bunch of glass bottles with different levels of water for the different notes are set up, and then a radio-controlled car with a stick attached to it is driven by the line, tinkling out the Mario theme.

Cinemassacre reviews Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day is one of the classics to me. It makes me laugh, it makes me cry, it makes me ponder life itself, it makes me cheer.

Pogo remixes sound bytes into a song. Bing!

CGP Grey talks about the tradition and makes a joke based on the movie at the end.

A YouTuber attempts to theorize why 24th-century Starfleet changed uniform designs so much.

PS: Stay until the end for the absolutely worst Q-as-judge costume you will ever see.

Stair Quest!

A fangame in honor of all of those infuriating pathfinding puzzles in the old Sierra adventure games. Boy, have I fallen off my share of stairs (and a whale's tongue, don't ask) in my time.

If you'd rather not play for yourself, you can just watch Paw Dugan play it for you.

The latest Facebook meme: Guess this animal!

To the ignorant eye this picture may look like an elephant with a black censor bar over its eyes, but the more clever observers have come up with all kinds of funny alternate theories. My favorite is "Jigglypuff seen from above", which is a reference to one of the most infuriating moments from Pokemon.

Star Trek joke from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

Always liked this one. "To boldly split infinitives that no man had split before!"

Bambi vs. Godzilla

I promise that it's worth a minute and a half of your time.