world record

Here's what happened behind the scenes this week. Daniel took a few lumps while trying to leap seven folding chairs in a single bound.

But practice makes perfect! Watch him flawlessly jump all seven and break other records in this week's I'm Better Than You.

Keep your eyes on the blog for more behind-the-scenes footage to come!

Daniel attempts to break the world record for most balls rolled over in sequence.

Then he puts the challenge to you: If you've ever broken a record that nobody cares about, just send us the video and he'll beat it, because if there's one thing he's confident about, it's that he can beat any of you at anything.

Well, I'm not sure if we can actually guarantee that we'll have time to break your pathetic record, but if you send us videos, we'll be sure to take a look.

So upload your videos here and feel free to tell us what records you've set in the comments.

The subtitles to this video are wrong.

Each board actually represents a Dell customer who was dissatisfied with his or her tech support experience.  The man getting struck with the boards is Dell's VP of Customer Relations.

I like this new customer service policy.  It really lets me know that they care.

[via UniqueDaily]

Last week, I posted on the World's Tallest Man.  Today, I was pleased to find the above footage of the World's Shortest Man.

It's good to see the Internet fulfilling its promise as an international freak show.  It's kind of like the Discovery Channel in that regard.

The people over at Buzzfeed seemed pretty concerned about this man's smoking.  (As you can hear in the video, he smokes a carton a day.  Yes, a carton.)  But keep in mind he's a waiter.  All waiters smoke a ton of cigarettes!

However, he also admits he's had this smoking habit since he was 7 years old.  Yes, seven.  And he's the world's shortest man.

It doesn't take a trained medical doctor to figure out that this guy… is totally awesome!

Did you know that Guinness World Records has their own YouTube channel?

I used to love the Guinness Book of World Records.  Nothing like flipping through a 1,000 page reference book full of page after page of tiny type to get a kid excited.

But now, kids are on the Internet, so instead of reading that the World's Tallest Man is 8 ft. 1 in. tall and then looking up at the ceiling and thinking, Boy, that's pretty tall, tykes today actually get to see the World's Tallest Man.

The future!

But then something happened.  I watched the above video of the world's tallest man that Guinness put out last week, and I have to say, he doesn't really look that tall.  I mean, when I was little, I figured the world's tallest man would be really f'ing tall!

What do you think?

Lot's of people are lamenting the demise of traditional media.

Not me!  Can you imagine Katie Couric bringing this story up on CBS evening news: "Meet the World's Strongest Vagina."  Of course not, because Couric is a weak…  Nevermind.

But Scanner, Nerve's blog (I have no idea what I just said) happily ran the story yesterday, including uncited quotes from an unnamed source.  Luckily, Buzzfeed did some research and pointed me towards what I assume is the original story on MosNews.  (Who maintains all these sites?!)

See!  The web has its own system of checks and balances.  And it throws some vagina in the mix.  Isn't that what the Internet is all about?

Oh, and yeah, about the vagina: She got it strong using a glass ball like the one pictured above.  I was going to use a photo of a vagina with the story, but after doing an extensive search on the Net, I couldn't find any.

This is video proof of Tosh.0 writer, Kevin Biggins, breaking the world record of wearing 11 medium shirts for a guy who usually wears a large.