In yet another shameless affront to Western Civilization, the Japanese have gone and genetically engineered crows that are smarter than us. Actually, not to split hairs but I should really change that to ‘smarter than you’. No bird is smarter than this webmaster.

The Norwegian city of Trondheim is home to a very neat, but rather useless piece of cycling infrastructure. Oh sure, some might argue that it is useful, but those people are just lazy… or fat.

Perhaps you’ve seen retractable security bollards outside of your local U.S. Embassy, and wondered how effective they would actually be against a speeding truck. Luckily for you, the answer to that question makes for good television.

This video demonstrates how easy it is to defeat most cylinder locks, and consequently how easy it is to break in to most houses, without leaving any trace as to the method of entry. So now you know where I’ve been getting all of those pies.

Windows Vista is going to be an amazing operating system, truly worthy of an upgrade. I hear it has fabulous speech recognition too.

This is a pretty interesting little video of the Australian Lyrebird, the Master of Mimicry. I’m telling you, this bird is so much like me: neat freak, fantastic with the chicks, great plumage, amazing mimicking skills, fantastic with the chicks, etc. Check it out.

Three years ago Matt from Connecticut quit his day job and decided to travel the world. The result is a video of him doing a cute little dance in every corner of the globe. For maximum depression, this video is best watched from your cubicle at work.

It’s amazing how 10 minutes ago I had no idea what Hot Dog on a Stick was, but now all I want to do is find one and watch some lemonade being made. I’m going to do it too, as long as I can escape from this gluereed.

Jason Clay spent three hours walking around the Giza pyramids and took a picture every 10 steps. He then made a 30 second video with the pictures, so now you don’t have to go to Egypt and get blown up.

If you add a roll of Mentos to a bottle of Coca-Cola, you get a very large stream of pop shooting out of the top. If you do it 101 times in a synchronized fashion, you get an impressive recreation of the giant fountain at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

This video, which comes to us all the way from Japan, has about eight thousand different Rube Goldberg machines in it, and all you Rube Goldberg fans will be in Rube Goldberg heaven! Rube Goldberg. It also has an awesome Japanese jingle. Does anyone know what they’re saying and what it means?

This is a really cool animated music video for JCBSONG by Nizlopi (whomever that is). You can’t go wrong with something that includes a backhoe, Optimus Prime and the A-Team! The song’s pretty catchy too.

Either the cockroach in this video is controlling a robot, and thereby ushering in humanity’s inevitable enslavement to insect overlords, or it is thinking “What the hell am I doing on this ping pong ball?” Either way, it should be killed.

Cooler than cats and cuter than puppies, it’s everyone’s favorite pet the octopus. Witness here it’s awesome camouflaging abilities; guaranteed to be the coolest thing you’ll see all day. Believe it, or he’ll squirt you with ink!