Not only is this Indonesian hunter holding his breath for two and a half minutes (apparently he can hold his breath for five minutes at a time), he’s defying what we think humans are supposed to be able to do underwater. He’s working against serious water pressure, walking on the sea floor, 20 meters (just over 65 feet) below the surface. Walking and prowling for prey. If I was talking about a shark, this might be that impressive. But he’s just a dude. A dude who trained his body to become super-mammalian, and making those of us who hold our noses in the pool and get our food delivered look like the biggest disappointments in human anthropological history. You win this round, Indonesian hunter!

(BuzzFeed)

In a sketch from the BBC show The One Ronnie, comedians Ronnie Corbett and Harry Enfield poke fun at technology naming conventions and drop more puns in under three minutes than I once thought was humanly possible–or tolerable. It’s funny, though. Don’t worry.

(BBC via Engadget)

Thanks to the YouTube, a lost moment of brilliance has been recaptured from oblivion–the lost “Doctor Who” dance number pulled from Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show two weeks ago.

Ferguson had planned to open the show with a huge puppet-laden, go-go booted dancer-filled musical number set to the famous Doctor Who music, complete with lyrics explaining the show to confused Americans–only to have the skit cut by producers.

>>>Find out why at Mediaite.

Doctor Who, Britain’s long-running sci-fi show about a time traveling Time Lord who fixes everything everywhere, will be filming in the United States for the first time in the television series’ 47 year history for the upcoming season.

The bits filmed in the US will be filmed in Utah, of all places, and will be a part of the upcoming season’s two part opener written by current series head Stephen Moffat. The story arc will apparently lead to the White House, though America-related Doctor Who rumors have turned up empty in the past.

There isn’t much known about the upcoming sequel to the fun, if not entirely accurate, Sherlock Holmes, not even a title. Even Jude Law, the series’ Dr. Watson, is only so far rumored to appear in the film. But one bit of quite exciting info is forthcoming from the horse’s mouth.

At least, one horse’s mouth. In a BBC Radio interview, Stephen Fry happened to mention in passing (while talking generally about being a character actor) that he is signed on to play Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock’s mysterious gentleman’s-club-dwelling brother.

Speaking of Alan Moore and alien baptisms, did you know that BBC Radio 6 does a weekly broadcast for aliens?

I mean, we all know that we’re constantly screaming all of our radio communication in all directions into space like someone talking loudly on their cellphone on a public bus, but BBC Radio 6 has a slew of different artists and personalities give them a short message and a song once weekly to be beamed into space by a radio telescope in the south of England, in the direction of relatively-likely spots of intelligent life.

They call it the Wow! Signal, after this weird thing. This week was Alan Moore.

You know, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency? The other thing that Douglas Adams wrote?

The wild nonlinear romp through causality, the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and alien ghosts?

…well, the BBC is making an hour-long special out of it, with possible series to follow, if it does well enough.

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How do you take a classic franchise and make it incredible in a whole new way? Elementary, my dear readers: You have Steven Moffat, executive producer and head writer for the most recent, quite stunning season of Doctor Who, create a miniseries that incorporates his quirky humor and modernizes the story. And that’s just what BBC is doing with the upcoming three-part miniseries Sherlock, which takes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‘s master detective and places him in modern London.

According to – we’d like to point out that this bit of news is not from, say, some weird!news aggregator, but, in fact – the BBC, North Korea has developed a liquid panacea. A “super drink.” Made of “microelements.” Which makes you smarter, whitens your skin, and keeps you from looking old. It also has no side effects.

We wish we were making this up.

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