The Shop-Vac bills itself as The Original Wet/Dry Vac—and it's damn proud of that. A few years ago, singer/songwriter Jonathan Coulton wrote a song about the gadget. Now, there's this: an amazing kinetic typography music video.

Stuck coding PHP for Facebook when all you really want in life is to belt out tunes to an adoring crowd? Don't take it out on your users, indentured code monkeys — dream big! That's what geek rocker Jonathan Coulton did. "I actually meant to become a famous musician when I first moved to New York after college, but just sort of forgot about it and got a software job instead," Coulton told interviewer Ben Gold.