As part of their annual Halloween tradition, the talented Spanish band Broken Peach performed an eerie cover of Michael Jackson‘s “Thriller” blended with Rockwell‘s “Somebody’s Watching Me”. The song concluded with a badass rendition of Rammstein‘s “Du hast”. The costumes and choreography were also spookily on point, making the performers seem undead.

Broken Peach – Thriller (Halloween Special)

The band, based in Galicia, Spain, has released a new Halloween special every year since 2015. They also released the mashup as a single.

Previous Broken Peach Halloween Mashups

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Prolific video editor Bill McClintock created “Ghostmashers”, a massive Halloween mashup that cleverly layers Ray Parker Jr.‘s classic Ghostbusters theme with eleven other 1980s hits.

McClintock wondered whether anything could possibly get more ’80s than this.

Music featured in this mashup: Ray Parker Jr. – Ghostbusters (1984)

The Fabulous Thunderbirds – Tuff Enuff (1986)

Rockwell – Somebody’s Watching Me (1983)

Eddie Money – Shakin’ (1982)

ZZ Top – Sleeping Bag (1985)

David Bowie ft. Stevie Ray Vaughan – Let’s Dance (1983)

Danzig – Mother (1988)

Aretha Franklin – Who’s Zoomin’ Who? (1985)

Oingo Boingo – Weird Science (1985)

Yello – Oh Yeah (1985)

Huey Lewis and the News – I Want a New Drug (1983)

Van Halen – Where Have All the Good Times Gone! (1982)

McClintock also shares mashups that didn’t make the cut, along with videos that were removed from YouTube, with his supporters on Patreon.

Other Massive Mashups by Bill McClintock

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Talented and tuxedoed musician Lord Vinheteiro performed a very active cover of the classic Van Halen song “Jump” on the strategic array of rubber chickens that he uses to play other delightful covers.

Jump – Van Halen on Rubber Chickens

When he’s not squeezing rubber poultry, Vinheteiro teaches piano and keyboard through his online Lord Music Academy.

Other Rubber Chicken Covers

How to Tune Rubber Chickens

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A beautiful Asian elephant named Samudra was given a giant pumpkin to squash during the Oregon Zoo‘s 28th annual Squishing of the Squash. The 18-year-old Samudra took it all in stride, ably squishing that 500-pound squash, which was filled with yummy lettuce, apples and sweet potatoes. His adorable 20-month-old little sister, Tula-Tu, was given a tiny pumpkin for her to squash.

It was elephant vs. pumpkin in an epic showdown today during the Oregon Zoo’s 28th annual Squishing of the Squash.

The big squish comes before Samudra moves to the Saint Louis Zoo in 2027.

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The narrator of Honkology explained why doomscrolling is so addictive through a very tired animated goose who likes to procrastinate because of his constant need to be online, even though it’s not all that enjoyable anymore.

Why you can’t stop scrolling: the bottomless feed, the slot machine in your pocket, the red dot, autoplay, the doom in doomscrolling, and revenge bedtime procrastination.

He also offered helpful suggestions for breaking that mentally toxic cycle, like turning the phone’s screen gray, which one study found saves 38 minutes of screen time a day, along with a simple action and a very logical phrase.

Final goose wisdom. The app isn’t going to stop Goose. It doesn’t get paid when Goose stops. Put the phone on the other side of the room. Goose’s neck is long, but not that long. You don’t have to finish the internet.

Why Every App Gets Worse on Purpose

In a follow-up video, the goose explains why apps lure users in with free bread before squeezing them, a cycle that Cory Doctorow named and the goose calls “en-honk-ification.”

Why Facts Don’t Change Minds

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Events creator Alona, the girlfromjerseycity, captured the sight of an adorable Angine de Poitrine tribute costume appropriately named “Angine de Pawtrine” that featured a tiny canine on drums at the 36th Annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade. Their costumes were certainly on point, with lots of polka dots everywhere.

This tribute to Angine de Pawtrine brought polka dots and a tiny canine drummer to the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade.

36th Annual Costume Contest Winners

Previous Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parades

Angine de Poitrine

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Clever cartoonist Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal created “Grimothy”, a giant, evil version of Jimothy, the viral Seattle raccoon with an unusually short, round body. This spooky Halloween display, which has menacing teeth, glowing eyes, skulls, and lanterns, is prominently featured in his brother’s front yard.

Behold: Grimothy is here, the Jim Reaper, Dark Lord and Father of Jimothy.
Located on Bainbridge island at my brother’s house…

The Neighbors Aren’t Too Thrilled With the Display

The neighbors are saying it’s too big but I think I could have gone bigger

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It all began as a simple police sketch of Jimothy that Inman drew back in July.

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Two-time world champion downhill skater Diego Poncelet, who previously reached 100 kilometers per hour (62 miles per hour) in the Swiss Alps, traveled the world with Red Bull to reach his personal goal of 150 km/h (93.21 mph). He found the perfect road in Quebec, a steep stretch with a maximum gradient of 18%, and tackled its challenges with new aerodynamic equipment, reaching an amazing 151.83 km/h (94.34 mph).

Two time downhill skateboard world champion Diego Poncelet sets a new world record for the fastest speed on a skateboard. Fulfilling a lifelong dream, he travels the world to find the best road for the attempt, and leaves no stone unturned in his pursuit of speed.

Poncelet’s amazing accomplishment also set a new Guinness World Record, breaking the previous mark of 146.73 km/h (91.17 mph) set on the same road in 2017 by his late friend Peter Connolly, whose memory Poncelet honors in the video.

The fastest skateboard speed downhill (standing) is 151.83 km/h (94.34 mph) and was achieved by Diego Poncelet Sanchez-Cuenca (Spain), at Les Éboulements in Quebec, Canada, on 22 September 2026.

Poncelet’s Earlier 100 km/h Run

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Dr. Emily Zarka of the PBS series Monstrum examined why ghosts are historically depicted wearing white sheets. The familiar look originated with burial shrouds used for centuries, while Victorian notions of public decency helped explain why ghosts were depicted wearing clothes.

Victorian-era illustrator George Cruikshank once mused that it would be strange for an intangible spirit to wear physical clothes, but on the other hand, depicting ghosts in the nude would be shamefully indecent.

This ghostly wardrobe caught on and eventually lost its frightening edge, thanks in part to cartoons like Disney’s Lonesome Ghosts and characters like Casper the Friendly Ghost.

In the early 20th century, the floating white sheet had become one of the most recognizable ways to depict a ghost. And then pop culture started making it a lot less scary.

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Urban field musician Benjamin Mjönes creates catchy beats by remixing various bird calls. The footage, originally captured by nature photographer Navarre Marshall, features birds such as the Canada goose, American robin, blue jay, and song sparrow.

Making beats out of birds

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When a 72-pound beagle named Autumn caught foster mom Tricia’s eye, she sent a video to her husband Dave, who thought the beautiful girl was AI-enhanced. Autumn’s original human, who had passed away, had dementia, which may have contributed to Autumn’s overfeeding.

When Tricia first sent her husband a video of Autumn, he genuinely thought the 72-pound beagle was AI.

Tricia, a volunteer with Triangle Beagle Rescue in Raleigh-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, took Autumn and helped her lose a great deal of weight with a deliberate plan to keep her comfortable.

Because Autumn weighed 72 lbs, it was very risky for her legs and back to take long walks. So, Trisha and her husband created a routine where they would go on short walks throughout the day. 

Eventually, Autumn lost enough weight to undergo surgery for a torn ligament. After recovering, she reached a healthy weight and was adopted by a loving family.

Today, Autumn is living her best life with her forever family. And you never believe she’s the same dog that Trisha and Dave met just a few months ago.

Autumn now weighs 36 pounds, having shed half her original weight of 72 pounds.

I am 36 pounds!!!!! I have been settling in to the good life with couches …I love my new home 

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Hyperland is a prescient 1990 BBC television documentary written by and starring Douglas Adams, about a non-linear dream featuring a software agent named Tom, played by fellow Doctor Who alum Tom Baker, that foreshadows the World Wide Web and modern AI assistants.

In this dream, Tom guides Adams through an interactive space full of linked text, sound, pictures, and movies represented by animated icons, reminiscent of Apple’s HyperCard software of the time.

Quietly tucked away in the BBC2 schedules of autumn 1990 was this ahead-of-its-time gem, written by Douglas Adams – technnology lover, Python writer, occasional Pink Floyd guitarist and creator of the iconic Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series of books and radio/TV programmes.

With Tom as a guide, Adams explored the evolution of interactive media, from interconnected information-storage systems like Vannevar Bush’s Memex to modern multimedia experiments with internet pioneers. Remarkably, Hyperland aired in September 1990, months before Tim Berners-Lee had the first World Wide Web server running at CERN.

Pop-up ‘micons’ (moving icons) conveniently link to interviews with leading technologists of the era (among them Ted Nelson, Robert Winter, Robert Abel, Kristina Hooper, Fabrice Forin and Steve Gano). Some of this stuff has dated badly – few visions of the future get everything right! – but the programme is nevertheless of considerable historical importance.

MrMartinPipe, who uploaded the video, notes that this version of Hyperland is missing footage due to a copyright claim, but points to a version on the Internet Archive that they say is complete.

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In a humorous spoof of AI-powered hiring, Graham Dot Zip asked his own automated agent to act as his professional representative during an interview with an AI recruiter for a marketing position. The amusing exchange tested how AI handled his resumé, salary negotiations, and scheduling follow-up calls. It also showed Graham he needed to be in the room after his agent exaggerated his experience and lowballed his salary.

The company sent an AI recruiter to interview me, so I sent an AI to represent me. Then I sat in the meeting and watched the two of them discuss my career.

Graham had fun with another AI recruiter, eventually getting the bot to say “I love you, too”.

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A clever little red panda named Enoki, who lives at the Oregon Zoo, adorably pounced on a colorful puzzle with yummy apple treats hidden inside and quickly solved it. According to the zoo, this puzzle benefits her mind, body, and belly.

Puzzle feeders like this one present a fun challenge for smart, motivated red pandas who enjoy a crunchy apple snack.

Enoki arrived at the Oregon Zoo in May 2026 as part of a conservation breeding program to help protect this very cute but endangered species.

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While exploring the twilight zone of St. Rogatien Bank in Hawaii‘s Papahānaumokuākea National Marine Sanctuary, 323 meters (1,059 feet) below the surface, the ROV Hercules, launched from the E/V Nautilus, encountered a playful octopus who adorably chased its green scaling lasers like a cat. The excited crew noted how unusual this behavior was in the deep sea, while Nautilus Live reflected on what it might reveal about octopus vision:

Watching the cat-like curiosity behavior of this octopus reminds us of how intelligent cephalopods likely are, and hints at vision that is likely different for this twilight-depth living species, rather than its abyssal depth relatives.

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Argentine physicist Gabriel Mindlin at the University of Buenos Aires searched handwritten field notes from the 1960s for bird melodies that appear to have audibly vanished from a Buenos Aires park. Concerned that these songs were dying out for good, Mindlin and his team deployed robots to teach young birds their forebears’ forgotten songs in the wild.

His efforts are featured in the Guardian documentary Dream of Birds.

Following clues hidden in the sounds birds make while asleep, Argentinian physicist Gabriel Mindlin uncovers a hidden extinction – not of species, but of memory – and sets out to revive vanished melodies before they disappear forever.

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Musician Kubla, who plays jazz renditions of popular songs, performed a warm acoustic soul cover of Radiohead’s self-withering song “Creep” at Toronto’s New Stadium, with his brother Gaelan on bass and his new friend Kurt on violin.

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Lek Chailert, a dedicated caretaker at Elephant Nature Park who sings her beloved pachyderms to sleep, played an adorable game of hide-and-seek with a beautiful rescued elephant named Thong Ae as they walked back home together. No matter where Chailert hid, Thong Ae knew exactly where to find her.

It seems like even something as simple as walking home can suddenly become so much more fun. …Happiness for elephants doesn’t have to be complicated.

The Pair Are Very Closely Bonded

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Artist Ali Spagnola transformed a massive 12-foot skeleton into a giant living Chia pet. The project required navigating complex structural challenges and maintaining precise environmental controls so the delicate chia seeds could germinate and flourish across the entire frame. After assembly, Spagnola adorned the giant Chia skeleton with festive matching lights.

12ft Home Depot Skeleton…but make it Chia Pet!

Spagnola’s Other Skeleton Creations

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The musical duo Tetiana Mazur and Sergii Shamrai, known as the B&B Project, performed a stirring instrumental arrangement of the classic Simon and Garfunkel song “The Sound of Silence”, pairing the brightness of a traditional Ukrainian bandura and the solemnity of a button accordion. The arrangement was created by Yurii Salukha.

‘Hotel California’ on Bandura and Button Accordion

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