Atomic Shrimp built this machine to test the wobbliness of hot dogs. Is he a pervert? Unclear. Is he a hero? Definitely. I’ve always tested the wobbliness of my hot dogs by hand like a plebian, but now we can get the hard scientific data we’ve all craved. Who hasn’t wanted to know the resonant frequency of their hot dogs? And if you get confusingly aroused in the process of finding out? Just an added bonus.

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Source: Geekologie – The Wobble Dog 9003i – a hot dog sausage wobbling machine

In the saddest video you’ll see today, this poor dog thinks the dart player on TV is playing fetch with him. And judging by the other dog’s expression you can tell he’s been doing this all day. Look, I get it. I’m guilty of imagining the TV is talking to me too and have made out with my fair share of news anchors. Is it creepy? Yes. But in these tough times you gotta do what you gotta do to get by.

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Source: Geekologie – Dog thinks dart player on TV is playing fetch with him

Judging by how good she is at recreating it, clearly this woman does this dance every night before going to bed. Also, the fact that in both versions she’s doing the dance in socks on tile and doesn’t kill herself makes it even more impressive.

Source: Geekologie – Woman recreates dance she made as a child for Britney Spears’ Womanizer

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the exploding beached whale incident that took place in Florence, Oregon on November 12, 1970 when highway patrol used way too much dynamite to remove a whale carcass.

…a half-ton of dynamite was detonated under an 8-ton beached whale. As it turns out, that was overkill. Mammalian marine guts spewed everywhere, raining down on townsfolk. A quarter-mile away, cars were smashed with chunks of cetacean carcass.

This story remained a local legend for two decades, until the early ’90s, when the newspaper columnist Dave Barry mentioned seeing footage of the exploding beast. Soon after, a video clip went viral on the internet, long before “going viral on the internet” was even a thing.

To celebrate the anniversary, the Oregon Historical Society arranged for a 4K transfer of the original raw film footage from their archive and KATU re-edited the package from the new high resolution video. If you’ve never seen it, you’re either Amish or an infant. I believe it’s a law that you have to watch it when logging on to the internet for the first time otherwise police come to your house and arrest you.

Keep going for the gloriously remastered video in all its legendary glory.

Source: Geekologie – The Exploding Whale footage was remastered for its 50th anniversary

HomeAdvisor decided to imagine what the Simpsons’ interiors would look like if they were designed by Wes Anderson. The key to the look seems to be symmetry and a uniform subdued color. Oh, and being able to imagine Bill Murray standing in the scene showing absolutely no emotion while deadpanning dialogue.

Keep going for the shots of Moe’s Tavern, the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, and more.

Source: Geekologie – What if The Simpsons was designed by Wes Anderson

A driver on San Tan Loop 202 in Arizona called 911 saying the car behind her was chasing and rear-ending her. The suspect kept ramming the driver even after Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers showed up, so they decided to deploy a Grappler Bumper to end the pursuit. The Grappler Bumper is basically a net that’s attached to the front of a police vehicle and can be lowered with the touch of a button. When the net contacts the tire, it’s pulled over the axel and the vehicle is immobilized within five or six seconds.

This thing is shockingly effective and I hope they go out of business because what fun are high speed pursuits if they all come to a safe and anti-climactic end? I want crashes and explosions, not cars coming slowly to a stop on the side of a road. I basically want all high speed pursuits to look like they were directed by Michael Bay.

Source: Geekologie – Arizona troopers deploy Grappler Bumper to safely end pursuit

This is a video of world champion hurdler Grant Holloway running the 110-meter hurdles but with his head stabilized to stay in the middle of the frame. It shows how little up and down movement actually occurs when hurdlers are “jumping” over the hurdles. It’s more like their heads are continually moving forward and their bodies just fold in half. It reminds me of those videos showing how chickens stabilize their heads when being moved around. Maybe somebody should pick up Grant Holloway and shake him around and see if his head also sticks in one place.

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Source: Geekologie – World champion hurdler Grant Holloway’s head stabilized through a race

Language enthusiast Diego Rivas shows what languages sound like to non-speakers. All of his non-English gibberish definitely sounds like what I think those languages sound like so I’m assuming his English gibberish is probably pretty accurate too. The only way to know for sure though would be to repeatedly hit my head with a wrench until I actually forgot the English language. Wait is that how brain injuries work? Only one way to find out. And let’s begi–aeaeg srltdfx drsfklbxv bxncvx wrutvb.

Keep going for the full trippy video, along with the music video for Prisencolinensinainciusol which was an Italian song made to sound like American English but without any actual English words.

Source: Geekologie – What languages sound like to non-speakers

Portland’s iconic indie bookshop Powell’s Books is selling a unisex fragrance that smells like old books. “Powell’s By Powell’s” has hints of violet, wood, and biblichor (old book smell) and costs $24.99 for a one ounce bottle.

Like the crimson rhododendrons in Rebecca, the heady fragrance of old paper creates an atmosphere ripe with mood and possibility. Invoking a labyrinth of books; secret libraries; ancient scrolls; and cognac swilled by philosopher-kings, Powell’s by Powell’s delivers the wearer to a place of wonder, discovery, and magic heretofore only known in literature.

So everybody loves the smell of old books but somehow my bed of old newspapers repulses everybody who sees it. Look, not all of us can afford fancy mattresses and blankets. Plus newspapers and books are basically the same thing, right? It’s all just paper. My aroma should be irresistible and yet everybody who smells me throws up.

Source: Geekologie – Powell’s Books creates unisex fragrance that smells like old books

A helicopter transporting a donor heart crashed last Friday on the Keck Hospital of USC helipad. Rescuers were able to recover the heart from the crashed helicopter, but it was immediately dropped after being handed to a doctor. The heart ended up being transplanted, but this is just Mr. Bean-levels of failure. I imagine the heart donor is looking down from Heaven with their hands in the air wondering if they should’ve donated their body to one of those weird museums that displays people without their skin instead.

Keep going for the full video. I feel okay laughing about it only because the heart actually did end up being successfully transplanted.

Source: Geekologie – Donor heart immediately dropped by doctor after being recovered from crashed transport helicopter

Alex Trebek, the host of Jeopardy!, died yesterday after a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. And here’s him reminding us that you can be a kind soul and still make fun of nerds.

“Awkward” is a short film by Nata Metlukh highlighting many of life’s awkward moments. It has great animation, great sound design, and an abundance of all those situations that remind you you’re stupid human surrounded by other stupid humans. My own solution to when you think somebody is waving at you but they’re actually waving at somebody else is to just never ever acknowledging a wave from anybody. My own mother could be drowning in a pool trying to wave at me and I’d just turn around and pretend I didn’t notice. It’s just not worth the embarrassment if I’m wrong.

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Source: Geekologie – A short film starring social awkwardness

MSNBC analyst Steve Kornacki had a short circuit live on the air as he struggled to find an alternative to saying “very big dump” of votes while describing the large tranche of mail-in votes from Nevada before giving up and just saying it. And all the power to him. If anything, he should’ve tried to work it in even more and make even more poop puns and then eventually just take an actual dump in his pants because ratings, baby!

Keep going for the full video of Kornacki experiencing a glitch in The Matrix in real-time.

Source: Geekologie – Steve Kornacki breaks his brain trying not to say ‘Big Dump’ of votes

The New York Times put together a stress-relief site to help ease the anxiety being caused by the current elections. It’s a combination of calming music, random video clips, and the occasional interactive page. It’s actually pretty effective, though I prefer my normal stress-relieving routine: eating as much ice cream as humanly possible while refreshing the news and screaming into a pillow. Oh, and a lot of pharmaceutical drugs.

Source: Geekologie – Election-distractor site to relieve stress

The 2020 Aerial Photography Awards have been announced and I guess they’re pretty good. I’m assuming they were all shot with drones since they’re all way less shaky than my submissions which were taken the old school way: tying my camera to a bird and then frantically trying to chase it down after the photos are taken. That’s right, I was doing aerial photography before drones were even invented. I was also losing a ton of cameras before drones were even invented. What can’t I do?

The above is the 1st Place winner in the Landscapes category. Keep going for some more winners and check out all of the photos here.

Source: Geekologie – 2020 aerial photos of the year

Klein Vision completed the maiden voyage of it’s flying AirCar prototype last week, finally making a reality what no actual person wants to be a reality.

The latest generation of flying car developed by KleinVision company transforms from road vehicle into air vehicle in less than 3-minutes. Useful for leisure and self-driving journeys, and also as a commercial taxi service.

It’s the kind of thing that has always sounded good in science-fiction stories, but would be a nightmare in real life. Nobody wants our skies looking the way our roads do. There’s also no way this thing could be good at either thing, since the engineering requirements are so different. Now can people please stop working on these wacky solutions and focus on the real problems that need tackling? Namely build me a car that is also a toilet.

Keep going for the full video of Klein Vision’s AirCar both driving and flying, which is exactly what a flying car should do.

Source: Geekologie – Somebody built an actual functional flying car

Soccer club Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC recently announced they were moving away from using human camera operators to cameras controlled by AI that had build-in “ball-tracking technology”. Well apparently their fancy new AI camera system kept mistaking the referee’s bald head for the soccer ball during a recent match.

The AI camera appeared to mistake the man’s bald head for the ball for a lot of the match, repeatedly swinging back to follow the linesman instead of the actual game. Many viewers complained they missed their team scoring a goal because the camera “kept thinking the Lino bald head was the ball,” and some even suggested the club would have to provide the linesman with a toupe or hat.

Keep going for the highlights video which also highlights how poorly the AI camera did its job. One can only imagine what it would do if any or all of the players were also bald. Would it just bounce back and forth around the field until it decided to put itself out of its own misery and jump off a bridge?

Source: Geekologie – AI camera mistakes referee’s bald head for soccer ball

Ever wondered what Tetris would look like if the pieces were soft? And also covered in hair? Of course not, because nobody has, but here it is anyway. This was originally done as an animation test to see what problems can arise when animating hair on soft bodies, but the result is either the most satisfying or most disturbing video you’ll see today. Or if you’re anything like me, the most arousing. I mean, wait, what?

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Source: Geekologie – What if Tetris pieces were soft and fuzzy?

This is a video of a toddler getting mowed down by a Nerf machine gun in slow motion. Oh, the horrors of war. I still remember my time spent in the bush. I used to laugh and joke about things too until a water balloon took out my best friend. Now I don’t laugh so much anymore.

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Source: Geekologie – Toddler getting mowed down by Nerf machine gun

The New York Times has put together a weird quiz seeing if readers can guess the politics of a person based on the contents of their fridge. I didn’t even know this was a thing, but quality reporting is quality reporting:

We wondered if it was possible to identify Trump and Biden voters based on what’s inside their refrigerators, on the theory it might say something about our similarities and our assumptions about one another. So we teamed up with Lucid, an online survey platform, to ask a representative sample of U.S. residents whom they’re planning to vote for — and whether they’d open their refrigerators and take a picture of the contents. Hundreds did.

You can take the quiz for yourself here, but first you should ask yourself if this is even a thing you thought you could do before you heard the proposal. I mean, does The New York Times think Trump supporters are eating MAGA hats? Or that Biden supporters store NPR podcasts next to their eggs? I’ll admit I took my crack at the quiz, but what kind of lunatic even came up with this? The only thing you can tell from my fridge is that I’m this close to having a heart attack and may or may not believe mayonnaise is a food group.

Source: Geekologie – Can you tell a ‘Trump’ fridge from a ‘Biden’ Fridge?