It’s SNL JPN! The NBC franchise has gone Japanese.

Have you been to New York City? If so, you’ve probably either been nearly hit by a cyclist or run over by a cab. Or maybe you were the pedestrian who stepped out into the crosswalk before you got the OK. This video details just one intersection and the multitude of near-misses that occur on it daily.

Enjoy this (very selective) history of the world, via a Rube Goldberg machine created at Purdue University.

What would happen if two gumball machines got in a fight, you ask? Now, you know.

Take a pretty enlightening tour of legendary Sun Studio in Memphis.

Watch an animator’s interpretation of how Jackson Pollock gave up representational painting and embraced the drip.

When My Morning Jacket needed a guest star to help out on “Wordless Chorus,” the band called up Erykah Badu to fill the void.

Not much setup to this one: Weezer cover Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android” in this slickly-produced in-studio video. Enjoy.

New Advancements in Handy Musical-Digital Production:One iPad and the Garageband app leads to a multi-track session topped with a tasty guitar solo. Voila, solo laptop pop music.

Are you missing Oprah already? Of course you are. And so is Jimmy Kimmel, who enlisted Boys II Men to help him express his longing through song.