Cool Stuff Friday

Welcome to the last Cool Stuff Friday of 2013!

LEGO Car! As in, an actual, human-sized, working car. Only goes about 12 MPH, but still! (Link from Colleen Reed)
Speaking of LEGO, Alice Finch and David Frank built LEGO Rivendell. It’s 10′ x 5′ and includes more than 200,000 bricks.
Cats vs. Physics, part 1.
Ian McKellan meets puppet Gandalf, courtesy of Sesame Street.
For my birthday next year, outer space is giving me a total lunar eclipse.
Big cats in boxes.
This is what 1.5 million flamingos standing around together looks like.