…right?

I mean it’s reached over 9 million views already so it’s not possible that you were just poking around online this morning and saw it for the first time because that would be…like…embarrassing or something.

OK…OK…I am really bad at lying. Even the sin of omission is something that escapes my abilities. Somehow I either never saw this.

Or–and perhaps just as likely–I did see it and somehow it was recorded on one of those blank broken spots in my brain that never quite work right.

At any rate…LOOK…OWLS! Sooo cute!

And the little one getting the head pets?

Well, it’s official…dying from cute is clearly a possibility because I came this { } close to shuffling off this mortal coil when I saw him. True story. (Ok..ok not true. But still ADORABLE!)

I’ll admit it. I sometimes I forget the incredible fact that we have actual honest-to-goodness real photographs from the surface of another FREAKING PLANET!

I mean how incredibly jaded have we become that we don’t just sit back in jaw-dropping awe of such a reality every single day of our lives?

We have photos from Mars people…MARS!

You know, that planet that is the fourth planet from our Sun?

Right now at this very moment we have a little rover vehicle rolling around on the surface of a planet that is about 225 million km. away from us (I think that’s about 139,808,518 miles…but I don’t do math so if it’s wrong it’s wrong) snapping pictures and gathering samples and measurements for us.

And the little rovers that could, as a group, have been doing it now for eight years thanks to the genius engineers at NASA.

Behold the alien beauty of the surface of a planet that is home to the highest known mountain (Olympus Mons) and largest dust storms in our solar system.

Hey YOU got your Star Wars in MY Mad Men!

Uh..hm…nibble…nibble…

DELICIOUS!

Two great tastes that taste great TOGETHER!

Surreal, a touch bizarre, and yet somehow still touching…this Mad Maxian (yup just made that term up) tale introduces you to the last Panda Bear standing on a post-apocalyptic Earth.

Leaving many more questions that answers…as I suppose any good prologue should…this short leaves me wanting to know so much more.

Things like….

Is this an alternate universe where Panda Bears always roamed the Earth upright and clothed?

Did they coexist with humans like those under the house before the apocalypse?

Is that really just a costume?

What happened?

What WILL happen?

So MANY questions….

Written , directed, and edited by Victoria Cocks and produced by Kirsty Stark it is supposedly a prologue to a TV series they hope to develop called Wastelander Panda.

Now I’m certainly not holding my breath waiting for it to ever see the light of day. But I sure as heck hope it does (fingers and toes crossed) cause gosh darn it I need some questions answered! And besides it’s a walking talking Panda!

So if you have the power to give these people a TV contract…or help get this project off the ground in some other capacity…for heaven’s sake WHAT are you waiting for?!? Visit the Epic Films Vimeo page and get in contact and make this thing happen.

…so naturally you combine them for one kick a**ride.

I swear my heart stopped a couple of times watching this guy ride that ridge.

Had there been no snow on the ground I still would have had my heart in my throat. But the snow?!?!

However, judging from his Youtube channel apparently this Colorado mountain-top ride is all in a day’s dare deviling for a guy like 87mcmahan87.

[via laughing squid]

I swear I am such a big old hopeless dork.

I may as well admit it. I absolutely did get a little watery eyed over this.

Poor little Harvey looks so incredibly sad that it breaks my heart a little bit.

I do not like the Cone of Sadness. Bad cone…BAD cone!

I’m completely head over heels in love with Harvey. I hope since this was posted in December that he’s all better now.

This is INCREDIBLE, jaw-dropping, mouth-agape, “could that really be real?!?” NASA footage of January 19th’s M2.6-class Solar Flare which created an Earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejection.

Gorgeous.

Thanks for the show Sol!

Emotions run high in the short film by Mathieu Ratthe called Lovefield.

Tension so heavy you could cut it with a knife. Followed quickly by horror. (Or is it the other way around?)

You wait on pins and needles. The suspense almost killing you. And yet you dread the reveal.

Then…phew…rollercoaster…

Things are not always what they seem. Lovely.

[Matt Rat Productions website seems to be down right now but you can visit the Mathieu Ratthe YouTube Channel here]

Sometimes I just don’t know what possesses me.

I spotted Dope Zebra days ago now. But something kept me from clicking. I didn’t want to be “manipulated” into laughing.

What WAS I thinking?!?

How can something called Dope Zebra be anything but wonderful? Duh!

Dope Zebra is…well…kinda dope.

You recognize it.

You’ve been there before.

Many…many…MANY…times.

Sure, in the end I suppose it’s really an ad for a book (Habitudes for Communicators). But it’s a brilliantly clever one that hits that proverbial nail square on it’s proverbial little nail head.

Oh, and just for the record I SUCK at presentations so someone really ought to get me this book so they never have to suffer through the hell on Earth that is me presenting.