If there was ever a freaky deaky contest (and there may be — I tend to stick to the shallows of the internet), Mother Nature would win hands down. And she wouldn’t even show up to claim her prize, she’d be too preoccupied pushing the freaky deaky envelope out in the wild. Case in point: these videos of a deep sea crap wearing an anemone as a backpack. “I think you meant crab.” So I did — good catch.

“In addition to their long, thin walking legs, Homolidae crabs (also known as “porter crabs”) have modified rear appendages they use to pick up anemones and other things on the seafloor. Scientists speculate that this behavior could be related to physical camouflage, chemical camouflage, or predator defense.”

So the crabs use their custom modified appendages (thanks evolution!) to pick up and carry around anemones. But what are the anemones getting out of it? Is this relationship entirely one-sided? I have so many questions, but you know Mother Nature isn’t going to answer because she’s too busy stuffing spiders into frog butts or something.

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Marble mazes: I used to love making them as a kid. I probably still would, but who has the time for fun? My Playstation controller doesn’t even hold a charge between the times I’m able to play. This is a video demonstration of the ‘Cacophany’ marble maze constructed by Jelle’s Marble Runs over the course of 278 hours. It has hoppers to run either 200 or 1,000 marbles and was designed specifically to make a bunch of noise as marbles travel along its track and includes “128 bells and chimes, but also a large number of drums, funnels, springs, nails, wooden sticks and more.” It was an enjoyable watch. My across-the-street neighbor leaving for work with his coffee on top of his car? Also enjoyable, because he’s a jerk. If he didn’t let his dog poop in my yard when he thinks I’m not looking (I’m always looking) I might have said something. Well, if I’d had any clothes on, which I didn’t, and still don’t. *shrug* It’s a slow morning. “It’s 2PM.” Sure, but it’s 8AM in Honolulu. “And are you in Honolulu?” Only in the fake vacation album I made with AI to brag about on Instagram. “This is a photo of you swimming with mermaids.” You should have been there, it was once in a lifetime!

These are a couple videos of Instagrammer Frankie LaPenna battling remote-controlled humanoid robots in the ring. The first is a Chinese EngineAI T800 (yes, they named it after the Terminator — it’s the same model that kicked the company’s CEO in this video) that’s had its head replaced with an actual Terminator head. Some more details while I don’t battle any robots because I haven’t given up on life just yet.

The machine shown is a real EngineAl humanoid robot, which weighs roughly 165 lbs (75kg) and is made of aviation grade magnesium-aluminum alloy. The robot is being driven via real-time remote control during the fight, with preset button triggered animations.

The Terminator wins the first fight, knocking LaPenna down with a solid kick. He then battles a second, steel-built robot with a Predator head. He knocks it down, but that thing gets up QUICK. Too quick. Of course a robot getting up at all after you knock it down is too quick as far as I’m concerned. I mean I didn’t knock it down on accident. I was really hoping to see a shower of sparks and maybe its head pop off Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em style. Then, as its voice transistors are dying, it utters its last words, “Robot…apocalypse…thwarted.” I’m hailed as a hero and the crowd of bystanders tries to pick me up to carry on their shoulders before deciding a pat on the shoulder and a “Good going, guy!” are sufficient.

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Because if we can’t have the cool tech Back To The Future II promised (I still write Robert Zemeckis angry letters), I guess we’ll have to settle for the Wild West of the third movie. These are a couple videos of the Back to The Future III themed backyard train set built by woodworker Matt Thompson, featuring a locomotive pushing the time-traveling DeLorean, complete with miniature Doc Brown and Clara figures dangling from the side of the steam engine, and Marty in the car. Did I mention the DeLorean sparks as it’s pushed around the track? Wouldn’t be the first fence I’ve accidentally set on fire. Still, as someone who could go pro in daydreaming about time-travel *daydreaming* “You were saying?” Please, this is all I have.

Keep going for the video, as well as version 2.0, which has less sparking but is still impressive nonetheless.

Closeups: they’re not always a good idea. I used a closeup for my original MySpace profile pic and even Tom unfriended me. I re-requested but he never accepted before the site went under 🙁 That was forever ago, but I still have dreams about it. This is a macro video from Another Perspective (it certainly is!) of a snail eating. On the freaky deaky scale, I give it an 8 made of two intertwined snakes eating each other’s tails…TO DEATH. Does this snail’s mouth look like a butt? No clue — I have not, and have no intention of ever seeing a butt that close up. “You’re so vanilla.” I am unflavored froyo.

Dream it and you can achieve it. Or at least some people can. I have dreamed a great number of things and achieved none of them. Although I suppose some of my nightmares have been realized. This is a video of Korean origami artist 씨에스타 SiestaOrigami folding a typewriter from a single sheet of thin, uncut paper measuring 124cm (48.8″) over the course of 24 hours. The way the keys were constructed without cutting is pretty genius, but the whole thing blew my mind. My mind is easily blowable though. “He cried when a magician pulled a quarter from behind his ear.” Honey! “What?” Who knows how long it had been there!