Brandon Scott Gorrell

Before today, I did not know that landing a backflip in a wheelchair was possible. Who would have thought? Is this where the X-Games are headed? Do the X-Games even happen anymore? Where’s this guy’s Mountain Dew sponsorship? Video after the jump.

The internet has invented new situations, new emotions, and new difficulties for the Western human race. Or, at least, exacerbated old ones. Take for example the situation of two individuals that have gotten into a festering, bitter argument on some internet forum who subsequently have found themselves, a week later, standing in the same room, at some party. What might be the outcome of this situation?

I found a link to one of these in the /r/creepy subreddit late one night. The videos are sort of NSFW, if you don’t want your coworkers thinking you’re… weird.

She had messaged me from Lovelab a short message that was just something like “hi, you’re interesting,” or something vague like that. I looked at her dating profile and it seemed mostly innocuous and her picture looked alright, but was generally just difficult to discern.

I have this problem with my girlfriend. She seems to get mad about the stupidest things. They don’t even make sense to me. Like, they don’t seem to make any logical sense. Seriously. So I don’t know how to address her problems – instead I just get frustrated and angry and her try to make her see that she’s not being logical at all. But she doesn’t understand, she just gets more pissed. What can I do?

Americans have extremely low street cred in the international tourist environment, this as the result of George W. Bush, republicans, the American news media, the American education system, privatized health care, and everything else non-Americans talk shit about when they talk shit about America…

Concept designer Mac Funamizu hopes his very Minority Report-ish mobile internet ‘looking glass’ concepts pictured in this gallery will be the form mobile devices take moving into the future. Pretty impressive stuff – but could a gadget ever have that much processing power? Either way, cool to dream about.

Here’s a nice thing. It’s kind of like a more expensive version of Spirograph, just easier to fuck up and way more trippy. Wish I had a large white room with evenly spaced rectangular prisms, a lot of money to spend on paint, an interested gallery director and a talented cinematographer friend. Bliss out to the video after the jump.

The bees of the world are dying. All of them. This is not something new. But now the bee plague – “colony collapse disorder,” which is either caused by a virus or a pesticide or a fungus or a combination of all three, no one really knows – is starting to raise serious concerns.

Yesterday MTV announced that this summer they will be bringing back Beavis And Butthead, the 1990s series that a lot of people’s parents wouldn’t let them watch. Justin Beiber, who I think was born after the series ended, tweeted “”Beavis and Butt-head are coming back!!!” Here’s an old episode to get reacquainted.

Aside from their ‘zine-like’ Internet personas, these individuals are moreover likely to keep Moleskines in which they write terrible poetry in highly visible positions in coffee shops and other public areas, promote “foreign film” and lace their status updates with words in French, occasionally German.

Glenn Jones – the designer behind all this work – seems like a pretty clever dude, and his t-shirt designs in this gallery reflect a very ‘palatable’ range of irony, sarcasm, humor and fun that feels at its core very modest, friendly and approachable. I like them a lot. Check out the gallery after the jump.

Watch this backyard gangfight take a bizarre turn for the worse (or the better?) after one dude receives a shocking blow to the jaw. You’ll laugh – it’s not what you’re expecting. Safe for work. Video after the jump.

nOOkist’s “statistics” “show hard, raw numbers… about your sexual lifestyle and what it will take to make a difference in your life.” And in your “session log,” you can even record the position(s) in which you had sex! And they want your former sexual partners contact information. What an awesome, stoic, intelligent idea for a website.

“I don’t want to have to kill this man, but I’ll kill him graveyard dead, ma’am,” said 57 year-old Donna Jackson of Oklahoma – whose home was in the process of being broken into by what seemed to be an insane man – to the emergency dispatcher on the line, who had just advised her that she had the right to “defend her property” if necessary. Moments later, Jackson killed the intruder with her shotgun. Listen to the call inside.

In 1994, mainstream America was, at best, online via a 56k dial-up modem and AOL or Prodigy. Today Show hosts Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric were no exception. Watch them fumble over how to say out loud the “@” sign (Couric thought the symbol either meant “about” or “around”) and genuinely wonder, “What is the internet anyway??” Video after the jump.

No, these aren’t new HUBBLE photographs – they’re extremely detailed photographs of the human eye, shot by photographer Suren Manvelyan. Pretty freaking cool.

After four days of protests “calling for the departure of despotic President Hosni Mubarak, who has been in power since 1981,” the Egyptian government has disabled access to the internet and cell phone service. This move is apparently in response to the mass protests – which many have predicted would be the biggest this week – planned for today after Friday prayers.