U.S. Fiscal Cliff
After a group of four young women from Queen’s College in Ontario started a Facebook community for students at the school to send anonymous compliments to each other in September, the trend spread to dozens of other colleges and universities across the globe.
This series of animations are drawn to go along with lectures on a variety of topics, including education, economics, science and history.
Alabama’s local news station WTVY surveys what the viewers on Facebook think about the fiscal cliff debacle and ends up featuring a very profound quote from a guy named Robby. Well played, Robby. Well played.
DeviantArt user Phostex illustrated this alternate universe depiction of Arkham Asylum from the Batman comic series.
At age of nine, Caine Monroy opened up a cardboard arcade in his father’s auto parts shop. His very first customer Nirvan Mullick, a Los Angeles filmmaker, became so inspired by the boy’s creativity that he organized a flash mob event and made a documentary about it, helping to raise more than $150,000 for Caine’s college fund in the process.
Ever wondered what fireworks would look like in reverse slow motion? Watch this mesmerizing footage of New Year’s Eve Fireworks from Melbourne, Australia.
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This just in from the weird part of YouTube: three percussionists use this man as their own personal drum kit.
This Words With Friends player pwned the opponent with “Oxyphenbutazone,” a type of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug which also happens to be the word with the highest possible score in a single play of Scrabble (1780 points when placed across three triple-word-score squares).