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When rock bands name themselves, it seems they feel proper spelling and/or grammar is only for the radically uncool. Otherwise, we’d have Deaf Leopard, The Beetles, and Fish. And then what would we be? According to this rock and pop spelling test from Penney Design, we’d be a bunch of red pen-wielding English teachers yelling at those long-haired kids to get off our lawns, that’s what. Take a look

This supercut video of movie characters reciting all 50 state capitals combines the best of viral videos with the basics of a fourth-grade geography class. Check it out below, and see how stars of films like ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ and ‘Forrest Gump’ handle capital cities from Pierre, SD to Montpelier, VT.

Telecommuters, stay-at-home parents, students and even the unemployed: Sketch group Killing My Lobster knows about you… and they’re horrified by you. KML’s ‘Why Is Everybody Here?’ is a note-perfect ‘Twilight Zone’ parody that frames modern life in San Francisco as a hellish nightmarescape where decent, working folks simply can’t escape the hoards of underemployed citizens just hanging out. “I don

The 377,487 residents of Raleigh, the state capital of  North Carolina, have something to cheer about as their city has been rated the number one city to live in the nation by Businessweek.com’s first-ever ranking of America’s Best Cities.

Appearing on the TV show ‘Guinness World Records Japan,’ Chinese acrobat Sun Xi Zhong set the world record for Most Stairs Climbed on the Head by scaling an incredible 15 steps using only his noggin.

The CW is currently developing a reality show based on musical chairs. They’re calling it ‘Extreme Musical Chairs’ and, according to Variety, it “would transform the popular children’s game into a physically demanding competition with multiple rounds of elimination set in an indoor obstacle course.”

In what will surely be the quirkiest thing you see today, a man in a kilt rides a unicycle down the street while playing the the theme to ‘Star Wars‘ on bagpipes. The sight was so unusual that multiple passengers in a passing car began recording it, creating a video-in-video effect. Check it all out below:

If you think breaking in a wild horse is hard, wait until you try to guide a train of speeding shopping carts around a mall. Filmed in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, this video shows an intrepid employee of the Iscon Mega Mall wrangling several carts in a pretty creative way. Though it may look like quite a challenge (it’s hard to put away one shopping cart, let alone a few dozen) apparently this

Borders bookstores will shut their doors forever at the end of this month, and in a final kiss-off to those who patronized the once-popular chain, employees at one of Borders’ franchises hung in their display window a bitter note which listed all the things customers had done to piss them off over the years.

‘Pulp Fiction’ is a pretty racy movie and it’s probably the last flick you’d show to children. Maybe that’s why this ‘Pulp’ scene, reenacted by a couple of kids, is so hilarious.

When Chinese police pulled over a regular-sized eight-seat minivan, they were shocked to find a whopping 64 children stuffed inside of it.

“Shut up” isn’t just the favorite comment of elementary school kids. The phrase also has a proud movie history, which has been documented by the same folks who put together the 50 trippiest drug hallucination moments in film.