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If you’re not familiar with the awesome Skyrim, then this video will mean nothing to you. If you are familiar, then enjoy this look at how Skyrim is played!

Nicely done Timtimfed.

The Bad Lip Reading crew took a swipe at Presidential VP hopeful Paul Ryan. As usual, the results are beyond bizarre, although I must admit to liking this version of Ryan more than the real one.

PROTIP: Attempting to listen to Dubstep while packing up your apartment could lead to quite a large mess.

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Are these infomercial products actually useful or are the models just …doing it wrong?

Cartoonist Rube Goldberg drew out comically complex machines that satirized the inventor's zeal to make modern life more convenient. Here, parkour practitioner Jason Paul throws himself in the middle of a warehouse-sized Rube Goldberg machine, complete with life-threatening tumbles and falls. More »

After years of speculation about the possible return, in movie or TV form, of “beloved by everyone but Fox and the millions who never watched” series Arrested Development, we’ve spent the past couple months swimming in tantalizing but minor views of the show’s rebirth. All the cast and creators are back on board to create ten episodes for Netflix, which will be available in 2013. (Or twelve episodes, or thirteen, or however many Mitch Hurwitz wants.)

Now we’ve got something a little more concrete, in the form of three official photos of the cast as they get back in action. AD trainspotters might be a bit disappointed in the general lack of winking in-jokes placed in these pics; we’ll have to make do with a hook hand and not much else. But that’s small stuff; how can anyone possibly complain about seeing this crew in the same frame?

I’ll admit, I’ve long been one of the people who thought the original series was best left alone. But I’m still excited to see what they’ve come up with for this reunion. I remain a bit cautious, but this is a smart bunch of people, and if they’ve collectively decided that there are good ideas in play, I want to see them. (Especially now that a couple important cast members have aged way beyond their characters’ original years.

[EW, via Buzzfeed]

• TV Bits: ‘Arrested Development’, ‘Girls,’ ‘Walking Dead’, ‘Hannibal’, ‘Childrens Hospital’, ‘NTSF:SD:SUV’, Daniel Craig, M. Night Shyamalan, Jason Bateman
• TV Bits: ‘Parks & Recreation’, ‘Bates Motel’, ‘Arrested Development’, ‘The League’, ‘The Office’
• TV Bits: ‘The Office’, ‘Bates Motel’, ‘Arrested Development’, ‘Vegas’, ‘Girls’, ‘Californication’, ‘Shameless’, ‘The Walking Dead’, Emmys, and More
• TV Bits: ‘Terra Nova’, ‘Arrested Development’, ‘The Walking Dead’, ‘Fringe’, ‘Community’, Terry Brooks
• TV Bits: ‘Arrested Development’, ‘Breaking Bad’, ‘Revolution’, ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’, ‘The League’, ‘American Horror Story: Asylum’
• TV Bits: ‘Arrested Development’, ‘American Horror Story’, ‘Once Upon a Time’, ‘Hannibal’, ‘The Farm’, ‘Revolution’, ‘Bates Motel’, ‘Jersey Shore’, Robin Williams

YouTuber Mowtendoo (creator of SigSig Emoticon videos) presents this awesome mash-up of two songs that the Internet can’t seem to get enough of: Gangnam Style and Guile’s Theme.

See those weird, black, spidery things dotting the dunes in this colorized photo taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2010? Yeah. Nobody knows what the hell those things are.

What we do know about them just underlines how incredibly unfamiliar Mars really is to us. First spotted by humans in 1998, these splotches pop up every Martian spring, and disappear in winter. Usually, they appear in the same places as the previous year, and they tend to congregate on the sunny sides of sand dunes — all but shunning flat ground. There's nothing on Earth that looks like this that we can compare them to. It's a for real-real mystery, writes Robert Krulwich at NPR. But there are theories:

Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, from Hungary, from the European Space Agency have all proposed explanations; the leading one is so weird, it's transformed my idea of what it's like to be on Mars. For 20 years, I've thought the planet to be magnificently desolate, a dead zone, painted rouge. But imagine this: Every spring, the sun beats down on a southern region of Mars, morning light melts the surface, warms up the ground below, and a thin, underground layer of frozen CO2 turns suddenly into a roaring gas, expands, and carrying rock and ice, rushes up through breaks in the rock, exploding into the Martian air. Geysers shoot up in odd places. It feels random, like being surprise attacked by an monstrous, underground fountain.

"If you were there," says Phil Christensen of Arizona State University, "you'd be standing on a slab of carbon dioxide ice. All around you, roaring jets of carbon dioxide gas are throwing sand and dust a couple hundred feet into the air." The ground below would be rumbling. You'd feel it in your spaceboots.

Read the rest of Robert Krulwich's post — and check out some spectacular photos of the things — at NPR

Excerpt from How The Universe Works on the Science Channel, awesome show. Size comparison of the Sun to the largest stars in the universe. Sorry, I don't know how to trim these videos yet as I'm just testing the Hauppauge HDPVR.

Recess Appointment was right, this scene from Futurama sums up the highlights of tonight’s debate and every presidential debate that has ever been nationally televised.

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