This is Bo Burnham’s White Woman Instagram song from his Netflix special Inside. I already posted Bo Burnham’s Welcome to the Internet video, but he’s a one man content machine and I can’t help but support the man. I feel like eventually I’ll just be posting the entire Netflix special in pieces as it’s uploaded to YouTube and I 100% have no problem with that. Again, Bo did everything you see in this video by himself, alone, while in lockdown during the pandemic. That means writing the music, performing the music, filming himself, editing the video, and literally everything else besides lay down the infrastructure for the Internet that you’re using to watch it.

Keep going for the video and then watch his special on Netflix. Again, this isn’t a paid sponsorship, it’s just really, really, really good. Although if you’re not into the two videos I’ve posted it’s probably not for you.

Source: Geekologie – Bo Burnham’s ‘White Woman’s Instagram’ from his Netflix special ‘Inside’

This person’s security camera “captured” footage of their nanny and turns out they’re a Predator. No, not that kind of predator, a Predator like from the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. Which I guess doesn’t preclude them from being the other kind of predator, but this is mostly about being invisible and not Chris Hansen entering the room.

Keep going for the security cam footage.

Source: Geekologie – Turns out this person’s nanny is a Predator

Clearly out to make every other dad on the planet feel like a complete loser, this guy built a functioning Star Tours ride in his garage for his daughter’s Disneyland themed birthday party.

This is a homemade Disneyland Star Tours attraction built for my daughter’s Disneyland themed birthday party at our house.

It’s the original 1987 version of Star Tours featuring the glorious Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman) as the rookie pilot Capt. Rex. It’s his first flight and he’s still getting used to his programming.

Back in the fall of 2019 my daughter Indy requested a Disneyland themed party at our house for her birthday in April. We built a couple of attractions for it but due to Covid when her birthday came around we had to shelve everything and postpone the party until 2021.

This past April, a full year and a half after she made the initial request we were finally able to do Disneyland at home for Indy’s birthday. This is the Star Tours portion of the party.

I’ve scrubbed through the video a few times and I’m still not entirely sure how the ride is functioning. I can’t tell if it’s actually on some sort of gimbal system or if they just have adults manually moving the whole thing. Either way it’s incredibly impressive and excessive and pretty much a middle finger to every other parent in that neighborhood. Can you imagine being this guy’s neighbor? Better start saving up for your kid’s therapy sessions because there’s no way you’re not a disappointment compared to this guy.

Keep going for the full video before the Disney lawyers issue the cease and desist and then sue this family into oblivion.

Source: Geekologie – Father of the year builds Disneyland’s Star Tours in his garage for daughter’s birthday

This is a Danish Road Safety Council commercial promoting bike helmet safety using Vikings. It plays like a Monty Python sketch which is the highest of compliments. I don’t know if it’s particularly effective at getting people to wear bike helmets, but it made me laugh and isn’t that really what public safety is all about?

Keep going for the full video.

Source: Geekologie – Danish Road Safety Council commercial on bike helmet safety

Waddles the duck was born with a mangled left foot. The owner decided to do something about that and had a Certified Pet Prostheticist from Bionic Pets fit him with this 3D printed prosthetic.

A Duck name Waddles has a mangled left leg and his owner wants to better his quality of life by giving him a prosthetic leg.

I’m a big tough guy but I have to admit it warmed my heart to see Waddles the duck finally waddling around with his prosthetic. I know it’s just a duck, but I swear you can actually see him smiling with joy when he finally starts walking. Kind of like when my grandpa got his walker, except the duck didn’t head straight to a strip club with his new found mobility.

Keep going for the adorable clip from NatGeo Wild.

Source: Geekologie – This duck got a 3D printed prosthetic leg

If you haven’t seen it yet, this is Welcome to the Internet from Bo Burnham’s Netflix special Inside. If that means nothing to you, Bo Burnham is a comedian, actor, entertainer person and he managed to write, film, edit, and score a Netflix comedy special entirely on his own during the pandemic. It was released on Friday and this is one of the songs from it. For anybody even thinking about entering the entertainment business you should be aware that this is what you’re up against.

Keep going for the video and definitely watch his special Inside on Netflix. This isn’t a paid sponsorship, I just believe it’s an incredible piece of art made during an incredible time and the fact he did it entirely on his own makes it doubly (quadropoly?) impressive.

Source: Geekologie – Bo Burnham’s ‘Welcome to the Internet’

Gabe White shared this video of their FedEx and USPS deliveries. Apparently the FedEx driver has lost the ability to bend and the USPS driver is an angel sent from heaven.

Shoutout to our USPS driver for moving all the packages out of the rain.

Keep going for the video. I get the feeling the FedEx driver might actually be a Terminator in disguise.

Source: Geekologie – The difference between FedEx and USPS deliveries

This is a video of a ball being bounced on one of the world’s bounciest surfaces. It makes it sound like some super secret scientific material, but *spoiler alert* it’s just a balloon stretched over a cup. Although they could’ve saved themselves the work of buying a balloon and cup and just used my rock hard butt cheeks instead.

Keep going for the video. It really is surprisingly bouncy.

Source: Geekologie – Balls bouncing on one of the world’s bounciest surfaces

Joey Helms lost his DJI drone to a lava fountain while trying to film Iceland’s newly erupting volcano Fagradalsfjall and here’s the footage from its final flight.

Watch the brand new DJI FPV drone crash right into the exploding lava fountain of Iceland’s newest volcano – Fagradalsfjall in the Geldingadalir valley. This unique HD footage provides a rare view right into the volcano’s caldera and lava fountain during one of its geysir-like eruptions.

FPV drones are notorious for crashing, it is part of the hobby. So in an effort to get a unique vantage point and perspective into the crater we flew this remarkably capable drone as close to the lava river and caldera as possible. One of it turned out to be it’s very last flight. At least the goggles record a great 1080p image allowing us to actually capture the last seconds the drone saw.

Hard to say if this was intentional or not but I do wish there was a second drone capturing the crash of the first drone. Is crash even the right word? Melting? Lava…ing? It’s actually surprising the drone even made it as far as it did. I don’t know if you know this, but turns out lava is actually pretty hot.

Keep going for the video. It’s not particularly exciting, but the footage of the lava and volcano are actually pretty nice.

Source: Geekologie – Drone crashes into Icelandic volcano while trying to film eruption

Sorry for the lack of updates. Turns out I went to a place that didn’t have internet and I was unprepared because what kind of place doesn’t have internet? Anyway, here’s a video of a woman defending her dogs on Memorial Day by pushing a bear off her fence with her bare hands. Or should I say bear hands? No. No I should not.

@bakedlikepie

My cousin Hailey yeeted a bear off her fence today and saved her dogs. How was your Memorial Day?! (WTF?!) #ohno #badass #brave #fight #bear

♬ Oh No – Kreepa

Source: Geekologie – Woman defends her dogs by pushing a bear off her fence

I don’t know why you would ever want to, but this is a video of Master S. Kamaraj showing how to throw an axe like a boomerang. I mean, the last thing I want to happen when I throw an axe is to have it come back at me. I literally can’t think of anything I’d want less, unless the axe suddenly exploding in my hand like a grenade was also an option.

Keep going for the video, as well as one of him doing the same thing with a double-sided axe. He even catches them in his hand because if you’re going to do something crazy you might as well fully commit.

Source: Geekologie – How to throw an axe like a boomerang

Because society continues to eat itself, NFT whale 3F Music bought the “Charlie Bit My Finger” YouTube video as an NFT for $760,999 and will most likely have the original video removed from YouTube.

Origin Protocol, which ran the auction, said in a statement the plan was to remove the original video from YouTube and then for it to be “memorialized on the blockchain.” At the time of writing, the original “Charlie Bit My Finger” is still on YouTube, but it’s unlisted.

3F Music also bought the Disaster Girl NFT for $500,000 and the Overly Attached Girlfriend NFT for $411,000. Considering their tremendous wealth and love of memes it’d be fair to assume they were Elon Musk, but turns out they’re just a Dubai-based music production company. Which is fine, but less fun. Pretty much anything is less fun than a lunatic billionaire who can’t stop talking about Dogecoin.

Keep going for the original “Charlie Bit My Finger” video, assuming it’s still there by the time you read this.

Source: Geekologie – ‘Charlie bit my finger’ sold as NFT and probably to be removed from YouTube

You know how old Kung Fu movies have horrible dubbing where the words don’t match up with the mouth at all? Well Flawless AI is a company trying to fix that problem, using neural networks to essentially lip sync dubbing in movies.

It’s a pretty interesting use of deepfake technology and a nice proof of concept, though the results aren’t particularly great and still in the uncanny valley territory. Also, if you’re watching a movie with dubs instead of subtitles you’re already doing it wrong. The only acceptable use of dubbing is when they edit a movie for TV and have to change the language. In fact, all movies should be edited as if they’re going to air on network TV. I present Exhibit A:

TheMalibuArtist is a drone operator who shoots footage of great white sharks off the coast of California. Well turns out he has a bunch of footage because apparently great white sharks are godamn everywhere. From The Los Angeles Times:

Researchers had long wondered how sharks, beyond the rare bites that make headlines, behave around people. Were they curious? Were they skittish? Or did they just ignore them?

“So far it looks like sharks just don’t care,” said Lowe.

“The surfers can’t see them, the swimmers can’t see them. But we can now see them from the air. And in those cases the sharks just don’t seem to change their path,” Lowe added. “Sometimes they’ll swim right under a surfer, but they don’t circle back. They just keep going.”

So turns out this kind of thing has always been happening, it just wasn’t until we had drones that we could actually see it. Judging by the videos, it seems like every time you step onto a California beach you’re about 100 meters from a great white shark. Which is really just another way of saying I’m never stepping into the ocean again.

Keep going for some of TheMalibuArtist’s videos (or check out all of his videos on his YouTube page), including one where a great white shark follows a family for 10 minutes, one where a surfer unknowingly touches a great white shark, and one where a giant great white sharks swims incredibly close to a surfer.

Source: Geekologie – Drone footage shows California’s great white sharks are everywhere and closer than you think

Because the internet ruins everything fun, YouTube skeptic and debunker Mick West released this video explaining that the pyramid-shaped UFO video released by the navy is actually probably just bokeh from a night-vision camera.

New reference footage from night vision monoculars (including the military standard PVS-14) demonstrates pretty conclusively that the supposed flying pyramid UFO actually looks exactly like a slightly out of focus light in the sky – quite possibly just a plane, as the ship was right under a flight path for LAX.

Some of the other lights are identified as Jupiter and some stars.

I don’t think that means the Navy got it terribly wrong. This was initially unidentified (with the UAP Task Force Investigates), and they maybe even thought it was a triangle for a few minutes. But it’s not. It’s just some lights in the sky.

We’ve already established that the military is filming UFOs with their lowest quality potatoes, so it makes sense that all of these UFO sightings are just misidentified video artifacts. It is extremely telling that even in the modern age not a single UFO video has been shot with more clarity than a Game Boy Camera.

Keep going for the full debunking video. His case is too solid so I’m willing to accept this UFO video isn’t real, but obviously all the other ones are.

Source: Geekologie – The pyramid-shaped UFO was probably just bokeh

This is a video of a bunch of teens leading a high speed chase in Florida before coming to a crashing stop on the highway.

Police were called Wednesday for a report of a Fort Lauderdale home being burglarized while people were inside. They got away, but not before police were provided with a description of their vehicle. When cops caught up to the getaway car and tried to pull it over, the suspects refused. Video of the chase shows police vehicles hanging back as the driver appears to make a sudden right turn – across three lanes – and hit at least one other car, barrel into a guardrail and strike an SUV before overturning and spinning to a stop.

The Fort Lauderdale Police Department said five juveniles were taken into custody from inside the car.

When I first watched the video I assumed it was just a lone driver, but then the police just started pulling people out like it was a clown car. The best (worst?) part is how the police literally throw the kids from the car after it crashes. I have no sympathy for them because obviously they put everybody on that freeway at risk, it’s just crazy that they probably got more injured during the arrest than their car accident that sent them flying and spinning upside down.

Keep going for the full video. The crash happens at about 0:50 and then everything after is pretty much just fuel for online fighting so I’ll keep my mouth shut.

Source: Geekologie – These teens lead a high speed pursuit that ended in a rollover crash

Google recently announced Project Starline, a video chat booth that uses computer vision, machine learning, spatial audio, real-time compression, and a specialized light field display system to create a life-size 3D holographic representation of the person you’re chatting with. In other words, they took FaceTime and threw a bunch of money and research into it to create the illusion of having somebody sitting on the other side of a window from you.

The current setup is only for use in Google offices since it uses custom-built hardware and highly specialized equipment, but the results look extremely promising for the future of video chat. And by the future of video chat I obviously mean porn. Connecting with loved ones is great and all but, I mean, c’mon. Let’s be real here.

Keep going for the full video and check out the official Project Starline announcement for more. Although I don’t know if it’s their color scheme or what, but all of their demo footage makes it look like family members visiting each other in prison.

Source: Geekologie – Google’s Project Starline is like a magic window for video chatting

This is a video of a USAF Boeing/Bell CV-22B Osprey 10-0053 landing at Addenbrooke’s hospital helipad for a medical-transfer training operation and then on takeoff literally blowing up the helipad with its rotor wash.

I just wonder what would’ve happened if any of the rubber matting had actually gotten caught in the rotors. Is it like throwing string at a drone where it gets tangled up and basically brings the whole thing down? Are modern helicopters as easy to take down? I’ve seen rotors decapitate heads though so I’m assuming they’re a little more durable.

Keep going for the full video.

Source: Geekologie – A USAF helicopter literally blowing up Addenbrooke’s hospital helipad