The Album That Bjork Recorded When She Was 11

Martin Schneider at Dangerous Minds found these recordings from Bjork’s 1977 self titled album. She was 11 years old at the time. The album was, apparently, fairly well received in her native Iceland but ignored or dismissed pretty much everywhere else. The rest of the world wouldn’t notice Bjork until the late 1980s when the…

Support the Petition to Name Storms After Climate Change Deniers

A petition is circulating to change the naming system for tropical storms and hurricanes. Currently the World Meteorological Society gives storms the names of people. Those names however are fairly random and the people storms are named after have done nothing to earn the dubious honor. The folks at Climate Name Change have a fantastic…

Gollum Auditions for Movie Roles [Video]

Not everyone is right for every role and some people are right for very, very few. Take, for example, Ben Affleck or even better Gollum from Lord of the Rings. Here is a look at some of his less successful auditions including Zoolander, Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction, Top Gun, Forest Gump and others. Still…

Did Life on Earth Begin on Mars?

It is no secret that Mars was once rich with water and could have supported life. Now new evidence, at least to some, that Mars may once have been more hospitable to life than the Earth was. The suggestion is not that complex, highly developed life evolved on Mars and then deliberately travelled to Earth.…

An A Capella Recording of Music from ‘Super Mario Brothers’

YouTuber Max “Smooth McGroove” Gleason sings your favorite tunes from Super Mario brothers. If you’re really, really into it check out MarioMods.com for info on how to replace the music in your favorite game. Check out Max’s YouTube channel for his renderings of music from Pokemon, Final Fantasy, Street Fighter and others … [via Laughing Squid]

A Velociraptor Is Turned Loose in a Japanese Office Building, Hilarity Ensues [Video]

For this amazing prank the creators found a mosquito tapped in amber, extracted a bit of dinosaur DNA from it and then created a velociraptor in a laboratory test tube. Ok, maybe that’s not what happened but it seems like a good way to do it .. I’ve seen it somewhere before. Anyway, watch this…

Australia Creates Hangover Free Beer

One of the nasty side effects of alcohol is that it causes dehydration. It is that dehydration that causes hangovers and some of the other downsides of drunkenness. On the other hand, one of the primary functions of sports drinks is to fight dehydration. Now, Queensland’s Griffith Health Institute in Australia have combined the two,…

Seriously Though, Why Ben Affleck is a Terrible Choice For Batman

So apparently Ben Affleck has been tapped to be Batman in the sequel to the rather poorly received Man of Steel. Now that the initial wave of hate directed at this idea has waned a bit, I’d like to set the obvious jokes aside and talk about the very real reasons why Ben Affleck is…

Video Proof That Nicholas Cage Has Been in Almost Every Movie Ever

Nicholas Cage Gets Around shows you the Nicholas Cage footage you forgot about from movies like the Breakfast Club, Jaws, Harry Potter, Wayne’s World, Stand By Me, 48 Hours, Hamlet and many more. Just remember that whatever you’re watching, Nicholas Cage is in it somewhere and even if you can’t see him, he can still…

The Internet Is a Better Place Today Because Animals on Trampolines

I’m normally not very big on animal videos but this one goes straight into the hall of fame, maybe the hall of fame for all internet videos. Watch dogs, goats, pigs and other assorted animals having the most fun ever on trampolines backed by House of Pain, then watch it again (you’ll want to).