This is Geronimo, and he’s a very clever dog that can do all sorts of tricks, including jumping rope double dutch. Just add that to the ever-lengthening list of tasks that can be performed by children and trained animals that are completely beyond my abilities. Watch and enjoy, but turn the volume down. 

It looks like the next generation of console will subject Nintendo to what this generation did: Anonymous developers have reported that though the Wii U will finally be a Nintendo console capable of delivering HD graphics, the console itself can’t match the graphical power of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The point of contention being, of course, that the Wii U is a next-gen console, and won’t be as graphically powerful as consoles that will be considered last-gen when the Wii U releases.

Not content with dominating the coffee business, and also not content with their current coffee energy drink, the Starbucks Doubleshot, Starbucks has announced that they’ll be entering the non-coffee energy drink market, with a new line of fruit flavored energy drinks, dubbed Refreshers.

Completed in 1929, the Fort Steuben Bridge spanned the Ohio River for some 83 years before it finally met its match in the form of 153 pounds of explosives. The decision to do away with the bridge apparently came from mounting concerns over its structural integrity, and decreased traffic in the wake of increased weight restrictions for vehicles crossing the bridge. It’d also become functionally obsolete, on account of the completion of the nearby Veterans Memorial Bridge in 1990. With all that against it, there wasn’t much else to do with the crossing except blow it to hell. See another view of the demolition, after the break.

When describing his series of explosion photographs, New Zealand artist Geoffrey H Short told the Daily Mail, “I am not trying to tell people what they should think, rather I am making art objects which I hope will make people think.” Which is convenient, because his work lends itself to a myriad of interpretations; is it a statement about fossil fuel consumption, about war, about fear, about the explosive forces of nature which began all things? Or are they like formless clouds on which we can project our thoughts. Whatever answer works for you, Short’s work is as mesmerizing as it is terrifying. See more pictures, after the break.

Researcher and professor Sebastian Thrun turned a lot of heads when he headed a bold experiment in online teaching at Stanford University by offering an artificial intelligence course for free. Of the 160,000 enrollees, 23,000 graduated the course with a Stanford University certificate and a head full of computer science knowledge. The experience of teaching a course on such a massive scale apparently left its mark on Thrun as well, who announced today at the Digital Life Design conference that he was leaving Stanford and was heading up a new free education project called Udacity.

It seems that brothers Jack and Dan somehow struck a bargain. Dan, who for reasons unknown had $125 in cash sitting around, would throw a pile of money up in the air and Jack could keep whatever he caught. Dan likely assumed that he would probably be out a few bucks, and that Jack would be happy. This turned out to be only half true, as Jack wound up very happy.

If you ever happen to come into some extra liquid nitrogen and are wondering what to do with it, surely, putting it into a sealed container is probably not the best idea. You see, it explodes — quickly and scarily. Somehow, at least, the guy in the video didn’t seem to lose any fingers.

Bandai Entertainment has announced that it will no longer publish new manga, DVD, or Blu-ray titles as of February 2012. The company will be restructuring, taking its dedicated staff down from five to three, and will entirely change focus. Instead of new releases, the Bandai Entertainment will shift over solely to merchandising, broadcast licensing, and digital distribution.

Unfortunately, most of us probably won’t be able to attend MineCon 2011, the official Minecraft gathering going down next week in Las Vegas. For those of us who will be stuck at home, counting the minutes until the finished release of the block-based building game, you can get a little taste of the action in the official trailer. Hopefully the actual will event will manage to do a better job at keeping out the creepers.