Fellow passengers tip train to free trapped man

With all the death and destruction in the news of late, it's all the more encouraging to see things like this. In the video, fellow passengers in Perth, Western Australia, work together to free a man who became trapped between the train and platform:


Always remember: mind the gap!

Character actors just want to be given a chance

An important message to Hollywood from that guy from that thing...

Are you pumped for the 2014 Internet Cat Video Festival?

Tomorrow is the big day. I'm talking, of course, about the third annual Internet Cat Video Festival. This year's festivities will be held at Open Field near the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Don't worry. If you are unable to attend in person, you can watch a live stream of the event, courtesy of Animal Planet.

Private toll road solves a major problem for British commuters

Free enterprise tends to be much more reliable than government bureaucracy, and you can usually count the former when the latter breaks down—which happens more often than not. In this case, the solution to a seemingly insurmountable traffic problem was a private toll road:


I would love to see more stories like this.

(via 22 Words)

Real men cook their steaks with lava

A steak just isn't a steak without the tangy zip of LIQUID HOT MAGMA...

Read more about this little experiment here.

Poor cocoa farmers taste chocolate for the first time

Most of us take a simple thing like chocolate for granted, but it's really a luxury—especially among those who actually grow and harvest the cocoa beans to make it. In this video, witness the joy of cocoa farmers as they taste the end result of their hard work for the very first time...


(via Sploid)

Wingsuit racing at speeds up to 140 mph

As Buzz Lightyear would say, "This isn't flying; this is falling with style!"

All potential 2016 presidential candidates polling lower than Darth Vader

Now this is a presidential poll worth noting, and it may very well influence my vote...

Weird Al Yankovic's parody of Pharrell's "Happy"

"Weird Al" is premiering a new video every single day as part of his #8videos8days project. First up is "Tacky," a parody of the popular hit "Happy" from the film Despicable Me 2. Enjoy!

1981 report on internet newspapers

What? Newspapers on my home computer? That's the stuff of science fiction:

"[T]he new telepaper won't be much competition for the twenty-cent street edition."

Whew! Looks like you dodged a bullet there, mainstream press!

(via LifeBuzz)