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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Original Series of Star Trek, Mattel is releasing a line of Barbie dolls based on characters Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Uhura. They are currently available to pre-order from Amazon and The Barbie Collection website. images via The Barbie Collection via Star Trek

“U-Machine – Genèse” is an incredibly sleek and graceful short film that features a pole dancer performing a gorgeous interactive routine against a projected geometric background that responds to her every move. U-Machine – Genèse. It’s a Kinetic Pole Dance Interactive Performance and it’s about human beings and the new technologies. submitted via Laughing Squid […]

Cooperative of Photography followed photographer Thomas Leuthard around Salzburg, Austria as he demonstrated a series of quick and useful tips for capturing better street photographer in “23 Ninja Tips For Your Next Photo Walk.” submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

Andante is a beautiful short film by the MIT Tangible Media Group that features colorful, animated characters that walk in concert with piano keys being played in order “to visualize musical motion”. Piano greats Herbie Hancock and Vijay Iyer had a bit of fun with the animation in a rocking duet. via Prosthetic Knowledge

When six year-old Ainsley Turner of Apex, North Carolina showed up for the princess-themed event at the Holly Springs Dance School as a hot dog, she became a hero to many people who admired that kind of confidence and ingenuity, including her dance teacher who first put the “hot dog princess” on Twitter in early […]

While on a trip, Hunter Greer and his companion found that their hotel had an interesting key policy. Another guest accidentally entered their room which led to the discovery that all guests at the hotel had master keys to every door.

Georgian artist Tezi Gabunia has created “Put Your Head Into Gallery“, a fascinating interactive installation in which he created scale models of different renowned art galleries and featured enormous faces at the center of each miniature show. Put Your Head into Gallery emphasizes Tezi Gabunia’s one of the main concepts – falsification and triggers a […]

The True Size Of is an online map tool created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice that lets users accurately compare the actual size of countries in relation to each other. Users can add a country’s outline to the map, and as they move it around, the outline resizes itself to compensate for the Mercator […]

In a new episode of her humorously informative grammar series, the very knowledgable Mary Norris aka “The Comma Queen” explains the difference between relative pronouns such as “that” and “which” and how the New Yorker puts them to use. Today we’re going to go for the jugular and talk about ‘that’ and ‘which’. This is […]

Tony Wang of San Diego, California has created the “Hodoor,” a functional 6″ Game of Thrones themed Hodor doorstop that is a tribute to the loyal, strong, and simple-minded hero played by Kristian Nairn. Tony is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to help with production costs. My friends and I are huge GoT nerds. We […]

In the latest of their incredibly insightful videos, the School of Life explains, through animation provided by Daniela Sherer, how insomnia is caused by unresolved daily issues and the lack of time most humans spend in order think about them, meditate on solutions and face one’s inner critic honestly. Something within us, you might call […]

An incredibly friendly, purring cheetah named Savanna, a Cat Ambassador at the Cincinnati Zoo who likes to play in the snow with her friend Max, graciously allowed her human caregivers to fit her with a harness that held a GoPro camera in order to record first-hand footage of her running through a grassy field. The […]

A lovely little cat who was gently awoken from sleep on the side of a massage table, decided to put her “biscuit making” skills to good use. In doing so, the benevolent feline helped out her masseuse human as she was giving a gentle massage to accommodating client. via Woow, GIFsBoom

A photo posted by Ursula Goff (@uggoff) on Jun 5, 2016 at 8:53am PDT In February 2016, we wrote about the Fine Art series by Kansas hair colorist Ursula Goff in which she matched the brilliant range of colors from specific paintings onto hair. Since that time Goff has gone on to create absolutely stunning […]

ThinkGeek, the purveyor of many fine novelty products, is currently offering the universe at one’s fingertips with an exclusive Solar Orbit Necklace that features semi-precious bead planets, including Pluto, moving in their respective paths around a dyed jade sun. Celebrate our friendly neighborhood star stuff with this Solar Orbit Necklace. Its 21″ length features not […]

The latest xkcd comic features a handy flow chart that helps you figure out the age of an undated world map (here’s a larger version).

Smosh Games presents an honest video game trailer for Blizzard’s new multiplayer FPS Overwatch. From the developers of games that are as addictive as street level heroin, comes the first original IP Blizzard has produced since The Lost Vikings – seriously – Overwatch.

Animator Alan Becker has created a fantastic animated short where he talks about the crazy 10 year history behind his Animator vs. Animation series. Alan explains the tough times that he had after releasing the original “Animator vs. Animation” short in 2006, his challenging transition to YouTube, and more. Fan’s of Becker can help support […]

The Ultimate Toolbox is a compact and organized toolbox built into the inside of an oil drum. The unit has three rotating compartments with hooks for mounting tools, space on the floor to organize smaller pieces, and the entire drum is mounted on wheels so it can be moved to wherever it’s needed. via Gifsboom

In the latest episode of NOVA’s Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers, a grown up Danica McKellar, who’s most widely known as Winnie Cooper from the classic television show The Wonder Years, spoke about how she went from a promising career in acting to an even more promising career in math, how she became known […]

Science Magazine explains, through a really informative animated video, how researchers discovered that dogs may have more than one domestication point. To proved this theory, they looked at the history of ancient dogs in Europe (Germany) and in Asia and discovered that these dogs may have been domesticated separately in each specific geographical area. …the […]

A little girl dressed in pink went for a walk down a dirt road with a sweet endangered southern white rhino named Ringo, who acts as an ambassador for the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. The conservancy seeks to educate the public about respecting and appreciating wildlife, starting with children. On Ol Pejeta, children get […]

Oh! Matsuri filmed a beautiful and intense look at one of Japan’s most dangerous festivals, the Onbashira Matsuri or “Sacred Pillars Festival” where young men prove their bravery by riding giant logs down steep hills through rough terrain. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

In the latest Simon’s Cat adventure, the beleaguered human Simon took a short break from mopping the floor and walked out of the room. The normally destructive Simon’s Cat remained behind and tried to clean up after a filthy kitten who tromped through the cat door and left a trail of mess behind. Rather than […]

Shinging360 is a 30 minute virtual reality experiment by digital artist Claire Hentschker created using Stanley Kubrick‘s The Shining. Hentschker used photogrammetry to build a three-dimensional world from the original film and followed the original camera movements through the finished creation. via Nerdcore

French filmmaker Candice Drouet (a.k.a. “Really Dim“) has created a fantastic compilation video of every Stanley Kubrick movie reference that has been featured on The Simpsons. Drouet goes into fine detail by showing off clips from The Simpsons and following them up with the actual movie scene it is referencing.

A photo posted by The cinnamon snail (@cinnamonsnail) on May 27, 2016 at 9:21am PDT During the last week of May, the Cinnamon Snail Bakery in New York City offered an incredible, limited-time, vegan maple raspberry “Inception Donut“, which consisted of a larger donut topped with smaller donuts that were then topped with even smaller […]

In his continuing series of experiments, “Crazy Russian Hacker” Taras Kulakov created a small plasma ball using a portable Tesla coil and a lightbulb, but not before shocking himself several times in the process. Kulakov also recently experimented with lightbulbs by dipping a bulb’s exposed filament into a jar of liquid nitrogen.

A ravenous little otter wasted no time enjoying the yummy snack that had been provided, repeatedly consuming multiple pieces of cereal as quickly and as noisily as possible. via Incredible Things

A video posted by ??????? (@shiba_charmy) on May 22, 2016 at 4:54am PDT Charmy is a sweet faced and beloved Shiba Inu whose face absolutely melts into the picture of complete serenity whenever she gets a good head, ear and/or chin scratch from her human. Sometime she even puts on a great big smile. A […]

Barcelona illustrator and architect Federico Babina has created Archiwriter, a series of illustrations that imagine the literature of 27 famous authors as architectural structures. Prints are available to purchase from Society6. We’ve previously written about his architectural works of art. images via Federico Babina

In a talk from the TED2016 conference, photographer Stephen Wilkes explains how he uses thousands of photographs taken of a location over many hours to capture the passing of time in a single image for his Day to Night series. Photographer Stephen Wilkes crafts stunning compositions of landscapes as they transition from day to night, […]

In May 2016, we wrote about the wonderful ad-hoc debut piano dance performed remarkably detailed warrior finger puppet designed by talented puppeteer Barnaby Dixon. Since that time, Dixon has been refining the puppet’s dancing skills, as demonstrated in a new video featuring musicians Emma Holbrook and Paul Bradley. @EmmaHolCreative and @polobrollochain joined me and the […]

The FoldiMate Family is a handy home robot appliance that folds, steams, and even perfumes laundry in a matter of seconds. Users simply clip their laundry on the machine’s conveyor belt, which feeds into the folding chamber where a variety of garment types can be folded by robotic arms. The company will begin preorders in 2017, […]

Disney recently recapped the story of Finding Nemo using only adorable emoji to help prepare everyone for their animated sequel Finding Dory, which is set to swim into theaters on June 12th, 2016.

In episode ten of his series for IMDb, host Brandon Hardesty of No Small Parts takes a look at the career of Irish actor Liam Cunningham, the actor who is best known for his role as Davos Seaworth in Game of Thrones. Brandon looks at Liam’s past as an electrician in Zimbabwe, one of his […]

In memory of his beloved friend Muhammed Ali, who sadly passed away last week, actor Sylvester Stallone shared a fond memory of the two men during the 1977 Oscar Awards. While Stallone was presenting the “Best Supporting Actress” award , Ali came up behind him and jokingly told Stallone that he stole his script. Stallone […]

A photo posted by Nintendo Life (@nintendolife) on May 31, 2016 at 3:13am PDT Nintendo Life shared an image of a custom Super Mario Bros. themed plumbing job that handy gamer Troy Goho installed under his kitchen sink. It features Bowser and Mario figures standing on drain pipes that have been painted green to resemble […]

Igor Vichikov of Inspire To Make recently demonstrated how to make an electric skateboard with a powerful drill, a right angle drill attachment, a brass wire wheel brush, and more. Have no money for the Boosted board? Here is a DIY solution =) Cheap and easy to make electric skateboard. A photo posted by Inspire […]

HBO Spots honors the life of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, in a tribute video narrated by Liev Schreiber.

A photo posted by @hypchk on May 29, 2016 at 11:56am PDT The Houston, Texas suburb Sugarland is at an unexpected center of controversy due to a bronze statue that depicts two long-haired girls, one with smartphone in hand, very distinctively posing for a selfie. By erecting this and another statue of a guitar player, […]

Firebox is featuring a scaly wax egg candle that melts away to reveal a porcelain baby dragon inside. Each egg contains a cute dragon with a random color. Thought to be extinct for aeons, these mysterious creatures are finally making a triumphant return. This Hatching Dragon Candle was painstakingly retrieved from the Shadow Lands beyond […]

John Oliver forgave nearly $15 million in medical debt during a Last Week Tonight segment about debt buying. With a steep discount, Oliver purchased a total of $14,922, 261.76 in debt for less than $60,000 to show how little regulation there is in the debt buying industry. Besides forgiving the debt because it was, “obviously […]

Adamlytics recently put on his inflatable Tyrannosaurus rex costume and chased a SUV, which was painted like a tour vehicle from Jurassic Park.

An absolutely magnificent Siberian Husky named Maya has an adorable habit of blowing bubbles through her nose whenever she takes a drink from her water dish, whether alongside her canine sibling or by herself. While her human Kent Duryee finds this behavior charming, but cautions the playful dog to be careful and not inhale. Don’t […]

Paul Marcarelli, the famous face of the long-running “Can you hear me now?” ad campaign for Verizon, has switched to Sprint in a new series of commercials. The spots focus on Marcarelli’s previous work for Sprint’s rival company and the claim that their network is now within 1% as reliable as Verizon’s.

Cracked imagines what it would be like if cell phone commercials were honest in their latest Honest Ads video. Enough with the maps! We don’t even understand their meanings anyway.

Laughing Squid partner David Klass visited the Cincinnati Zoo yesterday and while there he shot photo of the Harambe memorial visitors have created around the gorilla statue outside of the Gorilla World exhibit. Harambe, a 17 year-old male silverback gorilla, was tragically shot and killed by zoo officials on May 28th after a three year-old […]

“Dinner’s on Him” by Liz Climo

A photo posted by Mya The Pomsky (@myathepomsky) on May 6, 2015 at 5:16pm PDT Mya the Pomsky is a an absolutely gorgeous dog who’s half Husky and half Pomeranian heritage gives her the look of a vixen with stunning blue eyes and a foxy red coat. Mya enjoys a traveling around with her dedicated […]