Stumbling Finds II: Video Edition

Normally on Fridays I provide some kind of comedy video. Today I'll provide five short videos I Stumbled Upon, some funny, some just bizarre. Here are my top five picks for this week:

This is freakin' incredible! By building a semi-rigid bodysuit of 30+ wheels, Rollerman can roll at high speeds on any flat surface in any body position! His top speed so far is 61 mph. You have no idea how much I want one of these; probably even more than a jet-rocket backpack and even more than a flying motorcycle. It's probably best that I don't have one. I would wear it all the time - late to class? I'll just roll down the hallway and into the classroom at high speed! About to miss my plane? I'll just roll down the mile-long airport terminal, weaving between travellers and suitcases at 60 mph! Sigh... one can dream...



Ever play Minesweeper? Did you know they are making it into a movie?



Ever wonder what would happen if you filled a swimming pool with a non-Newtonian fluid and then went for a swim? Well... it's time to find out!



The UK was the birthplace of the railroad - the good side of that is the UK was the first country to become 'modern' - the bad part of that is we are stuck with infrastructure that is 200 years old. In France and Asia, trains travel up to 500 kph, (300+ mph) five times faster than in the UK. Wow.


Lastly, a brilliant commercial from Germany. Watch it twice, it's clever stuff.

Stumbling Finds I

If anyone is not aware of StumbleUpon, you should be. It is a great tool for sucking away your free time online. If you find the Internet to be like cocaine, you will find Stumbling the Internet to be like crack.

I've found loads of bizarre stuff on there, and thought it was my duty to share some of these with you, dear reader.

1. All I can say is.... wow




2. Don't know what to do with all those spare pennies you have at home in a jar? Here's an idea...





3. I've always thought that creative tree grafting was an underutilized art form.





4. Do you remember that ice storm we had in Atlanta in 1999? It could have been worse. This is the Swiss town of Geneve.





5. And what blog would be complete without photoshopped pictures of cats?

I'll post more fun stumbling finds every now and then.