This is another terrifying glimpse of the indistinguishable-real-from-fake future, this time in the form of Chris Pratt deepfaked as Indiana Jones in scenes from all the movies. Honestly, this might be the most convincing deepfake I’ve seen. Any deeper and it would be real. “How profound.” I’m a thinker. “Thinker or drinker?” *slams beer leaving foam mustache* I can do it all.
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Source: Geekologie – Chris Pratt Deepfaked As Indiana Jones
This is a video from the cockpit of Thunderbird 2 during a recent flyby of New York City’s East River by the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds to show solidarity for health care workers. It doesn’t even look real — it looks like a video game. Maybe it’s a video game. “It’s not a video game.” Yes it is too and I have the high score AND speedrun record.
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Source: Geekologie – Oh Wow: Cockpit Footage From Thunderbird And Blue Angel Flyby Of New York City
This a short video demonstration of a wall shelf that folds out into a desk. As far as space saving furniture like this goes, this one looks pretty decent. Still, when your apartment is as small as mine, it would also be nice if the shelf folded out into a bunkbed and shower stall. “And toilet.” Don’t have one, I just use the trash can. The key is not skimping on trash bags, you gotta get the good ones.
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Source: Geekologie – Space Savers: Wall Shelf That Transforms Into Desk
This is a video of what I assume is an aspiring circus performer throwing a knife into a spray paint can from zero feet away and getting a face full of red on him. According to the guy filming, apparently he thought he was on fire. Obviously, the video would have been significantly better if he actually had been on fire, and had to pull a knife out of his leg at the end.
Keep going for the video while I wonder what this kid is gonna do after dropping out of clown college.
Source: Geekologie – What Could Go Wrong?: Guy Throws Knife Into Spray Paint Can
This is one of the AT-AT barbecue grills made by UK-based Alex Dodson of Burned by Design (previously: his Darth Vader helmet grill, Alien and Predator head fire pits, and Lord Of The Rings Witch-King fire pit). If you’re interested in one apparently he’s actually going to start selling them on his website (worldwide shipping available), at least until the mouse sends a cease-and-desist. Obviously, I plan on already having mine by then. “I’d come over and slap my meat on your grill.” Excuse me? “You heard me.” You know this won’t be the first time I’ve impaled someone with a BBQ fork.
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Source: Geekologie – It Was Only A Matter Of Time: The AT-AT Barbecue Grill
This is a video of Taddy the cat snowskating (not actually snowboarding like I said in the title because I’m a no-good liar) to ‘Hustle To Meowtivate’, a song written about him. He’s definitely got some moves. My cat? My cat fell behind the bed this morning trying to jump on the headboard. Not how I wanted to wake up.
Keep going for Taddy shredding it up like toilet paper.
Source: Geekologie – Sick Moves, Bro: Taddy The Snowboarding Cat
This is a short clip from The Smithsonian Channel’s ‘World Of Weapons: Deadly Inventions’ of two alleged weapons experts comparing the effectiveness of a katana and medieval long sword at slicing a piece a 1/16″ metal plate, and piercing it. SPOILER: the long sword wins but this wasn’t exactly a valid scientific experiment. I mean you had two completely different dudes wielding the weapons. Maybe samurai guy is weaker. He looks weaker. He also looks like Voldemort if you cover the bottom half of his face with your fingers.
Keep going for the video while I write the Smithsonian Channel an angry letter about approach to weapon testing and claim I could have outperformed both those swords with my penis.
Source: Geekologie – Weapons Experts Compare Katana Vs Medieval Long Sword
This is a video of Youtuber Mako Ray performing Toto’s ‘Africa’ in Animal Crossing. In his own words while I can’t help but feel I’m being taken advantage of by a family of raccoons:
i recorded myself in different outfits playing random notes on each instrument and then i pitch shifted clips to match the song’s notes and composited every take together into one scene. this was actually a lot more work than i expected.
Hey, that’s cool. In related news my fishing pole broke and I made a bench I don’t like.
Keep going for the video, as well as a version that wasn’t pitch-shifted, which, honestly, I liked better.
Source: Geekologie – Guy Pitch Shifts Instruments In Animal Crossing To Perform Toto’s ‘Africa’
This is a video of a bunch of aluminum rims being melted in a vat of molten aluminum so that they can be reborn as another Terminator in the future. “That was molten steel.” Yeah, it was also a movie, and the Terminator gave a cheesy-ass thumbs-up as he went under. “Total boner killer.” If I even think there’s a chance I might have sex in the next week I can’t watch T2.
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Source: Geekologie – Melting Aluminum Car Rims To Recast As Something Else
This is a video from Nature on PBS partially shot by a spy copter disguised as a hummingbird so it can fly through a monarch butterfly swarm in Mexico with minimal disturbance. There’s so many of them — they look like flying leaves. Moths? Moths are flying dead leaves. I refuse to even donate one to Blathers in Animal Crossing because I don’t want it in my museum.
Keep going for the full video while I suggest next time they try to outfit that hummer with a nicer camera because some of that footage looked like a scrambled cable channel.
Source: Geekologie – Hummingbird Spy Copter Flies Through A Monarch Butterfly Swarm
This is a video of Youtuber Applied Science discussing the telecentric optical system he built with a Fresnel lens that allows a camera to record two objects at different distances with no perspective (both appearing the same size), and even ‘negative’ perspective (the further object appearing larger than the closer). When viewed with negative perspective, you can actually see around an object placed in front of another (in this case, dominos). Pretty wild, right? Needless to say– “P0rn is about to get a whole lot weirder.” I just got the goosebumps.
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Source: Geekologie – Creating A Camera Lens That Can See Around Objects
This is the elevated TIE fighter fire pit (trying saying that five times fast. Then we’ll both chug a beer, do a bat spin and wrestle!) created by artist Simon Gould (contact him for more info). Obviously, I must have one, as my current fire pit is starting to draw some harsh criticism from my neighbors. “It’s a 55-gallon drum.” So? “So you burn trash in it all hours of the day and night.” And? “And it’s in your parking spot at your apartment.” THAT SPOT IS PART OF MY RENT.
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Source: Geekologie – I Must Have One: An Elevated TIE Fighter Fire Pit/Mini BBQ
This is a pannable VR recreation of the detonation of the ‘Ivy Mike’ thermonuclear device on the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands in 1952, the first full-scale detonation of a hydrogen bomb. Just make sure you’re pointed in the right direction for the explosion, because I missed it the first time staring at some trees. In the real apocalypse you’ll only get one chance.
Keep going for the video, actual detonation at 1:45, followed by some info about the effects of the bomb on the area, as well as some current footage of the island and its inhabitants, who were allowed to return in 1980.
Source: Geekologie – 360-Degree Pannable VR Video Of The First Hydrogen Bomb Explosion
This is a video of somebody setting an ice cream cone in the whirlpool created by a large, rapidly draining sink. Why? I’m not sure, presumably just to see what it would look like. Unfortunately, it also looks like I’ll have to take that scoop of mint chocolate chip in my bare hand now.
Keep going for the full video while I wonder if a Baskin Robbins employee has ever whirlpooled my cone before giving it to me.
Source: Geekologie – Okaaay: Putting An Ice Cream Cone In A Whirlpool
This is a video of cellist Samara Ginsberg performing a very tasty multi-track rendition of the Inspector Gadget theme song on cello. She does an excellent job. That theme song really takes me back. I feel like I should have a bowl of sugary cereal in front of me right now instead of *gesturing angrily* a bowl of whatever the hell these things are. “Black jelly beans.” I hate them. “Then why keep eating them?” They’re all I deserve.
Keep going for the video while I ask my dogs why they can’t be more like Brain.
Source: Geekologie – Well That Was Delightful: Lady Performs Multi-Track Inspector Gadget Theme On Cello
This is a video of a Japanese convenience store’s solution to make drink coolers hands-free: by adding a large metal hook you can open with your foot (or in my case, penis). Simple! Besides, not only does it help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but *unscrewing soda lid* you never know if the person who touched the cooler handle before you is one of those people who always craves a Mountain Dew Code Red after furiously pleasuring themselves in the woods. *brushing twigs from shirt* Food for thought.
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Source: Geekologie – Japan’s Convenience Store Solution For Less Drink Cooler Germ Spreading
This is a video of Laura of Youtube channel Laura Farms giving a tour of the interior of her new model John Deere tractor. Crazy, I always assumed the interior of every tractor was just a steering wheel and bag of chewing tobacco. Look at all those screens! If I didn’t know better I’d sweat this was where nuclear missiles were launched from. “Do you know better?” MASH THE BIG RED BUTTON, LAURA, DO EARTH A FAVOR.
Keep going for the full tour while I convince my girlfriend she was playing solitaire on that bottom screen.
Source: Geekologie – High Tech: What The Inside Of A Modern Farm Tractor Looks Like
This is a video of appropriately named Youtuber GHAddict becoming the first person to 100% the already difficult ‘Through The Fire And Flames’ on Guitar Hero at 165% speed. For reference, my highest completion was 13% playing at 10% speed. To my credit though, it was at a party and people kept walking in front of the television and — “You were drunk.” I thought somebody said we were playing Mario Kart.
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Source: Geekologie – Fingers Of Fury: Guitar Hero Player Hits 100% On ‘Through The Fire And Flames’ At 165% Speed
This is an optical illusion captured by a beachgoer (or near-beachgoer) in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand of a tanker ship off the coast that appears to be floating above the horizon. How about that! Why does it appear to be floating? Per one flat-earther in the Youtube comments:
Think about it. The horizon is rising. On a ball earth it would be falling. Proof of flat motionless earth.
[in response to someone asking how this disproves a globe] Funny, you believe that right now, there are birds flying upside down, planes upside down, ships attached to water and water attached the ball and hanging upside down, yet I am the crazy one. Oh wait, its Gravity…..right!! The same gravity that holds a air craft carrier to water yet allows a butter fly to fly around freely. Wake up dummy.
I’ll be honest, I used to think flat-earthers were just full of pancake-shaped shit, but that was a pretty compelling argument. And by compelling argument I mean I wish I could just get inside this person’s brain for five seconds so I could run through the side of their skull like the Kool-Aid Man.
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Source: Geekologie – Optical Illusion Of A Tanker Ship Floating Above The Horizon
These are the electric guitar themed wooden cutting boards produced and sold by Etsy shop CuttingBoredom (!). Available in Les Paul and Stratocaster styles, the ~$95 boards can be made with cherry, mahogany, or walnut bodies, with contrasting wood inlay details. Obviously, they’re perfect for doing a little…shredding. “Dammit, GW.” Believe me *retching* I make myself sick, I really do.
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Source: Geekologie – Electric Guitar Themed Wooden Cutting Boards