In the Hall of Fame of men’s hair, the ’60s and ’70s are tucked far back in the hallway leading to the staff bathrooms and broom closet for very good reason: they were awful.

Venture back in time with the worst of the worst thanks to this video montage by YouTube user 2869rjh.

YouTube is such a vast beast that it’s almost impossible to track down things you aren’t linked to or know the titles of. That’s what Cracked is for. These guys obviously have enough time on their hands to scour YouTube for the most insanely silly, and hysterical videos. I don’t want to know what dark alley of YouTube they were looking in, but I’m glad I don’t have to go down there myself.

  It doesn’t surprise me that I haven’t seen any of these Youtube videos before. They’re all really, really strange and even more random. This one especially: I have literally no idea what’s happening in this video. I’m partially scared but highly amused. See the rest at Cracked. More hidden gems on Youtube.

Mental Floss hosted by John Green, where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, John sorts through a number of acronyms and initialisms such as M&M’s, SCUBA, and the USA PATRIOT act. An acronym is an abbreviation formed from the initial components in a phrase or a word. These components may be individual letters (as in CEO) …

  There’s also much more info at Core 77.  

Kyle Wagner, over at Gizmodo, wrote that someone had put all 6 Star Wars movies up … on one single screen, side-by-side. This is how he describes his experience watching them: At first you think, This looks cool, all the intros side by side by side! And then you think, Waaaiiiit no these are the …

Looking for something red hot and sticky to liven up this Friday? No worries you’ll get busted for watching this video at work, where YouTube user carsandwater sees what happens when a hot ball of nickel is dropped into a glass of honey. Though the video’s description explains this was, in part, a safety demonstration, …