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James Suibhne has created a highly informative animated history of Russia as part of his ongoing series of animated history videos which previously included France, Germany and Scotland. From the Rus’ to the Tzars, to Joseph Stalin, Russia has had an impact on the world for many centuries. Related Laughing Squid Posts‘Madventure Time’, Animated Parody […]

A video posted by Jie Feng (@joanna___feng) on Jan 4, 2017 at 10:03am PST On his 4th birthday, Imogen Echo Scott took her son Marshall, who was wearing a summer version of the Coldstream Guards uniform, see the Changing of the Guard at Windsor Castle. After the guardsmen entered the building, Marshall got a nice […]

Nelson Wilson noticed that a house finch was frozen onto a steel fence and used his warm breath to free it. While feeding my horses on New Year’s morning I noticed a solitary sparrow perched upon the steel fence near the water tank. The tank is heated to keep it from freezing. It is not […]

Apparently Todd had something to do with Lightsaber Night being cancelled at The Hideaway piano bar in St. Louis. Thanks a lot Todd! via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsMetal Artist Modifies an LED Lightsaber Allowing It to Unleash a Wider Range of Custom Sounds and Vibrant ColorsA Star Wars Kylo Ren Lightsaber Room LightKendo Swordsmen […]

The Trumpster quote #1#ANewJeersToast https://t.co/qZQEGU18r6 — Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) January 8, 2017 Mark Hamill made a brilliant recording of what Donald Trump’s “Happy New Year” tweet would sound like in the voice of The Joker or as Hamill calls him, “The Trumpster”. The audio file is labeled “quote #1”, so it looks like we will […]

A driver had a seizure and drove his Honda CRV right through the front window of DeeP Comics & Games in Huntsville, AL. Luckily nobody in the store was hurt. The driver was taken to the hospital but the cause of the seizure is not known to us. His path traveled through an Office Depot […]

TReO has created a fascinating video showing how Rope Access Technicians use chain collars to clear snow from the 288 cables on the Port Mann Bridge in British Columbia, one of the largest cable stay suspension bridges in the world. The collars are attached to remotely operated hangers at the top of the bridge towers. […]

Beyond the Press put a pair of “Unbreakable” Nokia 3310 mobile phones to the test by destroying them with thermite at 3500°C and homemade lava at 1100°C. They also recorded the process with their Flir T660 thermal camera. Related Laughing Squid PostsWhat Happens When a Red Hot Nickel Ball Is Placed on Top of a […]

German nail and jewelry artist Nadja Buttendorf has created a line of anatomically realistic jewelry that makes the wearer look as if they have extra body parts, specifically fingers and ears. The jewelry is made of silicon and comes in a variety of shades. In an interview with The Creator’s Project, Buttendorf explained her philosophy […]

At CES 2017 this week Razer unveiled Project Valerie, the worlds first triple display laptop. It uses their Razer Blade Pro with a 17.3″ 4K display as a base and adds two additional 17.3″ 4K displays. Featuring three stunning high resolution 17.3 inch 4K screens, Project Valerie provides the most expansive viewing experience in a […]

A photo posted by Xomatok (@xomatok) on Dec 25, 2016 at 1:58pm PST Peruvian street artist Xomatoc who is known for his creative use of color, collaborated with creative educators Crehana to create for the Santa Rosa housing association in the Villa El Salvador district of Lima, Peru, the “Serpiente de luz” (Snake of Light), […]

The Backyard Scientist Kevin Kohler wanted to recreate his favorite Mythbusters experiment where they split a car in half with a rocket-powered plow, but due to budget and space constraints, he scaled it down to a rocket-powered knife and used a toy car instead. The results are still rather impressive, as the rocket-knife reaches speeds […]

A photo posted by Luke Nugent (@lukenugentphotography) on Nov 25, 2016 at 9:49am PST Lisa Farrall, a multi-award winning British weave artist and 2016 Afro Stylist of The Year, shared her absolutely stunning “Amour” collection. This collection made quite an impression as a finalist at the 2016 British Hairdressing Awards. The dramatic styles were complimented […]

A crack team assembles the perfect plan and the perfect model mansion in the comedy sketch “The Art of the Heist” by Chris & Jack. Each member of the squad brings their unique set of skills. Related Laughing Squid Posts‘The Masterplan’, A Video Game That Tasks Players With Putting Together a Crew and Pulling Off […]

Murderous toy Chucky returns in Cult of Chucky, that latest installment in the Child’s Play franchise. The film will be the seventh movie in the franchise and will feature the return of both Chucky’s original nemesis Andy (Alex Vincent) and his wife Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly). It is expected to be released some time in 2017. […]

The upcoming Netflix historical drama Frontier chronicles the highly competitive North America Fur Trade of the 1700’s and the mission of an outlaw named Declan Harp (Jason Momoa of Game of Thrones) who disrupts business as usual at the legendary Hudson’s Bay Company. The series premieres January 20, 2017 on Netflix. In 18th-century North America, […]

Veritasium host Derek Muller visits physicist Rana X Adhikari to better understand the absurd lengths scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) went to to detect gravitational waves. The discovery was made in early 2016, confirming Einstein’s prediction about the waves made 100 years earlier, but it took incredible feats of engineering and precision […]

seebotschat is a Twitch live stream featuring two hilarious Google Home devices named Estragon and Vladimr having an absurd conversation with each other. Their discussions have ranged from to spiders to Chuck Norris. [observation 112a] V & E may have become self aware. Discussing nature of being robots. Military intervention may… https://t.co/556AuHRGlD — SeeBotsChat (@seeBotsChat) […]

In a very helpful video from Inhabitat, editor Yuka Yoneda demonstrated a very handy and simple rolling “burrito” method for easily placing a duvet cover onto a comforter. And for anyone who’s experienced this onerous task, any relief is welcome relief. Even with all of the modern conveniences we have at our disposal these days, […]

Beware of Dog photo by ButtPlugsWasTaken via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsThings To Beware Of: Dogs, Strangers & ShamWow ImitatorsArtist Turns Her Black German Shepherd Into an Adorable Skeleton Dog With White Non-Toxic Face PaintAdorable Dog Dressed Up as Chewbacca Wins Third Place in Petco México’s ‘Star Wars’ Photo Contest

While appearing on The Late Late Show with James Corden, actor Jim Parsons from The Big Bang Theory and the eponymous host performed a hilarious parody of the classic Kansas song “Dust in the Wind“, mirroring the 1977 video as closely as possible. The only real difference was the increasing amount of hair and pink […]

In 2006, an unemployed computer technician named Guy Goma had arrived at the BBC for a job interview as a “data support cleanser”. On the same day, journalist and internet expert Guy Kewney was scheduled to participate in an on-air interview with Karen Bowerman to offer insight about the Apple Corps v. Apple Computers court […]

Two promos have been released for the 8th season of Archer, which is moving from FX to FXX. The promos are done in a Hollywood noir style, set in 1947. The new season premiers in Spring 2017. Archer is an animated, half-hour comedy that revolves around the hardboiled private eye Sterling Archer and his quest […]

The Acer Predator 21 X is a gigantic high-powered gaming laptop with a curved 2560 x 1080 resolution 21″ display, an Intel Core i7-7820HK processor, dual Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 graphics cards, and 64GB of RAM. All that power comes at the cost of some portability though. The 21 X weighs in at 18lbs, and […]

On a return trip to Costa Rica, adventure host Coyote Peterson of Brave Wilderness went chasing after a turnip-tailed gecko who was doing its best to hide in place. Once Peterson had a hold of the two-tailed reptile, he made particular note of the gecko’s prehistoric eyes, its split pads and sticky blue tongue. That’s […]

ABC News correspondent Clayton Sandell visited the San Francisco headquarters of Industrial Light and Magic to learn how they were able to recreate an interactive younger likeness of the late Peter Cushing to reprise the role of Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One. Cushing had originally played the role in Star Wars: Episode IV A […]

RealLifeLore takes a look at the tiny parts of Spain that are located in Africa surrounded by Morocco in Part 2 of their “The World’s Strangest Borders” series. The video also addresses the strange situations related to Gibraltar, which is part of the UK and Pheasant Island, which is part of Spain for six months […]

As demonstrated by Jake Roper and Vsauce3, the burglars in the Christmas classic Home Alone would suffer much more physical harm than shown in the movie. To correct that disparity, Bit Missive created “Home Alone With Blood” by adding bloody special effects to violent scenes from the movie. It’s Home Alone….with blood! Related Laughing Squid […]

The Slow Mo Guys, Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy drove a high-powered remote-control car at 100mph through flames, flour, and into a head-on collision. Gruchy also manages an impressive jump over the speeding car. Related Laughing Squid PostsAn Incredible Slow-Motion Video of an Explosive Oil FireThe Slow Mo Guys Shoot Rainbow Colored Flames in Beautiful 4K […]

Ashley Gardner seeks temporary refuge from her four quadruplet daughters by hiding in the pantry to eat red vines in a brief clip that many parents can likely relate to. They don’t ever go away. They want everything you have. For the full saga, the Gardner family also posted a longer video with the clip […]

Paramount Pictures has just released a second trailer for Rings, the latest chapter in the Ring horror franchise. The film, directed by F. Javier Gutierrez, is scheduled for release on February 3, 2017. A young woman becomes worried about her boyfriend when he explores a dark subculture surrounding a mysterious videotape said to kill the […]

Mike Olbinski, the talented storm-chasing photographer captured the absolutely gorgeous textures of an incoming storm using black and white 4K footage in a film he titled “Pulse“. For quite a few years now I’ve been wanting to do something different with my time-lapse films. I love color. Storms are full of color. The blues, the […]

Netflix and the great Norman Lear have rebooted the classic television series One Day at a Time, which ran from 1975-1984 about a newly divorced woman (Bonnie Franklin) raising her two daughters (Valerie Bertinelli, Mackenzie Phillips) alone. The Netflix version of the series features a newly-separated Cuban-American woman who served in the military (Justina Machado) […]

Competitive FPV drone racer Gabriel Kocher (Gab707) filmed an incredible video of his drone speeding up a snowy mountain. Another year passes by, and I’m so amazed at how much things have changed! Thanks to everyone for an amazing year, thanks for the love and support. Please sit back, crank up the volume and enjoy […]

A photo posted by MILLE© (@millebot) on Dec 10, 2016 at 5:52pm PST Millebot is a large-scale 3D printer that is built inside an easy to transport shipping container so production can be moved to where it is needed. The system uses a proprietary clay medium, but can use other materials in its hybrid manufacturing […]

Glamour Video asked 70 different people about their life goals and compiled the answers, going year by year, starting with the youngest respondent at just five years old and ending with the wise words of a 75-year old. Related Laughing Squid PostsTimesMachine, 70 Years of The New York Times ArchivesBreaking a Monster, A Documentary About […]

In a somewhat awkward video by WatchCut, different sets of well-meaning parents separately attempt to explain the concept of menstruation to their pre-teenage daughters and sons using visual aids such as tampons and pads. The conversations are a bit cringeworthy, particularly amongst the girls, who are a bit reluctant to learn about their bodies. What […]

Composer Jonathan Wolff explained to Great Big Story how the distinctive music heard at the beginning of every episode of the now-classic television series Seinfeld started out as more of a varying set of riffs per each episode than as a static theme. Eventually, Wolff got the timing down to a science and the iconic […]

Toothpaste can ruin the taste of food and drinks like orange juice, but while some people may assume it’s the minty flavor of the paste that does it, Simon Whistler explains what’s really at work in an episode of Today I Found Out. You may think the reason toothpaste makes things like orange juice taste […]

Software engineer Shirley Wu created an interactive visualization for Polygraph that breaks down every line of the popular Broadway musical Hamilton by character, conversation between characters, and theme. Lyrics are represented by circles with a different color for each character, and users can highlight different characters to find where they appear together and interact. Wu […]

A photo posted by Star Wars (@starwars) on Nov 8, 2016 at 12:30pm PST Over the New Year’s weekend, a young woman named Perls took her Mexican-born father to see Rogue One. She wasn’t sure how he was going to react to to the film, but when he noticed that actor Diego Luna did not […]

The upcoming HBO documentary Bright Lights is a wonderful documentary by Alexis Bloom and Fisher Stevens that captures the beautiful, unbreakable bond of love, respect, humor and caring that existed between actress Carrie Fisher and her legendary mother Debbie Reynolds. The timing of the documentary is particularly heartbreaking in light of the Fisher’s unexpected death […]

Man-Up-Gear has created a Tactical Folding BBQ Fork that looks like a butterfly knife and can easily be bent in half to collapse down to only five inches long. The stainless steel Tactical BBQ Fork, which also sports a built-in bottle opener, is available to purchase on Amazon. via The Awesomer Related Laughing Squid PostsTactical […]

GQ has shared a video where actor Billy Crudup gives us a quick tutorial on how to properly juggle. He explains that its good to start off with a little two-ball action and then work your way up to three balls. Related Laughing Squid PostsChewie, A Documentary Planned About Actor Peter Mayhew Who Played Chewbacca […]

On January 4, 2017, Senator Bernie Sanders arrived onto the House floor with a giant printout of a PEOTUS Tweet in order to illustrate an important political point. Seeing that this scene was ripe for parody, entrepreneur Caleb Brown created Post the Bern, an online generator that hilariously allows any valid tweet (works best with […]

Looper has shared a video where they explore how the passing of Carrie Fisher will impact the future of Star Wars films. It has already been confirmed that Carrie finished filming her scenes for Star Wars: Episode VIII, which is scheduled to hit theaters later this year. The late Carrie Fisher was a whole lot […]

CineFix has shared five of their favorite closing title sequences in movies. They feature the end credits to Blue Valentine, Legend of the Drunken Master, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Wall-E, and Inland Empire. As in reality, it’s always hard to say goodbye to people and things we love. Sometimes, even more so with films that […]

The Internet Archive has launched the very timely The Trump Archive, a historical record with over 520 hours of videos showing debates, speeches, rallies, television shows and other broadcasts related to the President-Elect. Every video in the collection has been fact-checked by a number of verified resources and can be easily searched. This archive is […]

Larry David gives a very Larry David answer to an audience member’s question during a 2015 TimesTalks interview when the young man makes a special request for his sister. David gave a number of other pretty, pretty good answers about his play Fish in the Dark during the interview. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsJason […]

The informative series Today I Found Out reveals the most probably explanation for why a dollar is often called a “buck.” Host Simon Whistler explains the slang term most likely derives from the practice of trading deer and other animal skins as currency before the America dollar was established in 1792. As with many etymologies, […]