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The Virginian-Pilot nailed it with their brilliant front page layout in today’s edition of their newspaper. Early nominee for best newspaper front page of the year (via @charlesapple and @capitalweather) pic.twitter.com/thp7SVIEFB — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 9, 2017 via Brian Stelter Related Laughing Squid PostsPage One: Inside The New York Times‘Lost’ Snowden & ‘Found’ Rusty […]

Amazon Echoes of TV viewers in the San Diego area began ordering dollhouses because of a news report on CW6 San Diego about a six-year-old who ordered a $162 dollhouse using the Alexa voice assistant without her parents’ permission. Related Laughing Squid PostsOf Dolls and Murder, A Documentary About Dollhouse Crime ScenesSpeakeasy Dollhouse, Dolls Depict […]

The FLEB YouTube channel has given a review of The Xbox Puzzle, an incredibly elaborate X-Men inspired logic puzzle game that comes in the form of a wooden box and features metal screws, switches, cryptograms, and a small numeric display. FLEB cracked the code on each side of the box to reveal the names of […]

Improv Everywhere embarked on their 16th annual No Pants Subway Ride in 60 cities around the world on January 8, 2017. Tens of thousands of people in 25 countries dropped their pants to ride their local public transportation including in New York City where the event fell on a frigid 22°F day. The No Pants […]

Brian Kidd (a.k.a. “The Unipiper“) dressed as Darth Vader over the weekend and managed to shoveled snow while playing his flaming bagpipes in Portland, Oregon. A video posted by Brian Kidd (@theunipiper) on Jan 7, 2017 at 5:09pm PST Related Laughing Squid PostsThe Unipiper Dresses as Darth Vader and Balances on Death Star While Playing […]

Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key reprise their Key & Peele roles as President Obama (Peele) and Obama’s “anger translator” Luther (Key) to give a farewell address and to leave a note for president-elect Trump. Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key suit up as President Obama and Luther, his faithful anger translator, to get real about Donald […]

Netflix‘s Flixarcade is a great side-scrolling infinite runner browser game where you can play as protagonists from one of their many original television shows. You can get into character as Mike Wheeler from Stranger Things and sprint through the city of Hawkins, run for your life throughout Colombia as Pablo Escobar from Narcos, and more. […]

Marshall Newman captured footage of a man being pulled behind a car and while skiing through the snowy streets of Raleigh, North Carolina. The fearless street skier amazed the group of people following him as he hopped up on curbs, dodged stop signs, and enjoyed his snowy road adventure injury free. via reddit Related Laughing […]

Host Jimmy Fallon, with the help of numerous television show and movie stars, acted out a wonderful, musical parody of La La Land during his hilarious cold open for the 74th annual Golden Globe Awards. Barb (Shannon Purser) of Stranger Things was resurrected, Ryan Reynolds gracefully spit a breath mint into Jimmy’s mouth, Justin Timberlake […]

We know that stepping on LEGO bricks hurts, but why does it hurt so much? Today I Found Out host Simon Whistler has an explanation for this eternal question. Right up there with how the gun on the original Duck Hunt game worked, why it hurts so much to step on a Lego brick is […]

A teenage girl is surprised to discover that she can actually pop a kernel of popcorn using a flat iron. Related Laughing Squid PostsAn Entertaining Experiment Proving That Corn Kernels Can Be Popped With a Flat Styling IronThe Muppets Swedish Chef Makes PöpcørnThe Popinator, A Voice-Activated Popcorn Shooter That Launches Popcorn Into Your Mouth

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 […]