This is Jake Shimabukuru, and he does things with his ukulele that I thought we’re even possible. Move over Tiny Tim.

Watching this scientifically accurate super-long-zoom of the known universe you can actually feel your brain inflate. Must, must,must watch in HD.

My friend met a man the other day called Peter Finger. I did not believe him. That a man could be called such a name. I googled the name and even though the man I found wasn’t the same P.F, the name existed none the less. Meet a Peter Finger:

http://www.peter-finger.com/

A savvy young couple from New York have devised a highly simple way of getting what they want in life:

“Each painting shows one thing we want, and sells for the price of the real item. So you can buy A Slice of Pepperoni for $3.00 or Dinner at Nobu for $152.00. When the painting sells we use the money to go out and buy that thing.”

More work here.

How are all the gifts delivered upon the eve of Christmas? Simple. There’s 87 big guys working together. As one.

Combine:

Ping pong, hand grenade, kooky smart looking folk, The Glue society, Metal on Metal.

Result:

If I were Michael Douglas, and I was having a VERY BAD DAY, my face might look like this:

In the true Victorian spirit of exploration, Englishman Ed Stafford, 33, has decided to combine lofty ambition and sheer masochism in his quest to walk the ENTIRE length of the world’s longest river – the Amazon.

He is 612 days into his quest and doesn’t plan to finish until August 2010. The Daily Mail has a fantastic account of his daily tortures.

His average day would kill most people. Up at dawn, he walks for around eight hours, until 3pm. At this stage of the journey he will be lucky to have covered 7km in that time. This is jungle, real jungle – and you pay for every step with willsapping swings of the machete.

It’s like clearing the thickest hedge you could imagine for a whole working day. Only this hedge is filled with razor grass – which is pretty much as the name implies, grass that will cut exposed flesh to ribbons – huge thorns and spines on trees sharp enough to go straight through a carelessly placed hand, deadly snakes, poisonous spiders and foot-long centipedes so venomous that they can blister your skin with a touch. Oh, and the odd man-eating big cat. Specifically, jaguars.