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Peleg Design Studio, the maker of a many fun novelty items, has created the Crocomark, a plastic bookmark cleverly formed into the shape of a furtive open-mouthed alligator that becomes half submerged into the pages when the book is closed. Look out! Deep between the pages lays Crocomark. This crocodile shaped bookmark will silently wait […]

Conan O’Brien recently found out that a group of his employees were on a secret “Foodies” email list so that they could alert each other when free food arrived at the office. Conan addressed this injustice by placing a cake in the 2nd floor conference room and sending out an email to the group, notifying […]

A photo posted by Kevin (@theadventuresofkev) on May 10, 2016 at 5:40pm PDT Kevin is sweet chubby-cheeked, slightly crossed-eye Russian Blue who defied the odds and overcame the effects of congenital hydrocephalus (“water on the brain”) to live a really wonderful life alongside his animal siblings, provided by his loving human, Tailah, who told Love […]

Boosted recently announced that have designed and engineered a 2nd generation of their powerful, lightweight electric skateboards. This time around, the Boosted team “focused on opening up longer distances and more riding conditions while improving safety, reliability, and durability.” The 2nd generation boards are currently available to pre-order and will begin shipping in late July […]

A bizarre world of augmented reality takes over a person’s life in the short film “Hyper-Reality” by Keiichi Matsuda. Our physical and virtual realities are becoming increasingly intertwined. Technologies such as VR, augmented reality, wearables, and the internet of things are pointing to a world where technology will envelop every aspect of our lives. It […]

On May 5th, 2016 competitive gamer Wes Copeland reclaimed the Donkey Kong video game throne by acquiring a new world record score of 1,218,000. Copeland managed to not lose a single Mario throughout the game, which allowed him to cash in all of the extra lives at the end. Shortly after obliterating the competition, Copeland […]

Comedian Scott Rogowsky returned to the New York City subway system with another group of fake book covers. This time he was joined by Akilah Hughes with some books of her own. The titles included Book by Author McFakename, The Joy of Cooking Meth by Walter White and Jesse Pinkman, 1984 2: 1985 by George […]

Ben Cusick (a.k.a. “NightHawkInLight“) of Holly, Michigan recently demonstrated how to make a machine gun that shoots cheese balls. After a few different designs, Ben found out that using a leaf blower worked best. Fans of Cusick’s work can help support his future tutorials on Patreon. music by Black Lions Beatz – “Powerful Trap“

Parents test rode in a giant baby stroller built by Contours Baby to demonstrate how comfortable their products are for babies. Gurgles and coos are notoriously difficult to interpret—making it difficult for babies to tell us what they like. So we’ve created an exact, adult-sized replica of one of our best selling strollers to show […]

Vox writer Estelle Caswell enlisted the help of writer and rap analyst Martin Connor to do a syllable by syllable breakdown of some of the most influential rap songs in history. The video looks how rappers put beats, bars, and rhymes together in different ways and the effect those combinations have on their music. From the simple […]

Terminator 2 Guns Replaced With Selfie Sticks is a Tumblr blog featuring digitally manipulated movie stills from popular action films where the guns and other weapons are removed and replaced with hilarious selfie sticks. The Hateful Eight Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom The Good, the Bad and the Ugly True Grit Full Metal […]

Joyful mother and Star Wars fan Candace Payne recently treated herself on her birthday by purchasing an electronic Chewbacca mask at Kohls. Candace, who was super excited about her awesome new toy, laughed hysterically in her car after putting the mask on and captured it all on video. The legendary Wookiee himself, Peter Mayhew, left […]

When a sweet blind orange tabby named Rey unexpectedly let her human know that she wanted to play a game of fetch, he readily complied and threw a toy. She brought it back to him immediately, thus beginning a beautiful tradition between man and cat. I was at my computer when my blind cat, Rey, […]

Film series Eyes on Cinema has posted a fascinating clip of the great Martin Scorsese talking about his cameo appearance in the 1976 film Taxi Driver and how he graciously took advice from actor Robert DeNiro from inside the car in order to make the scene as believable as possible. The “Sick Passenger” scene featuring […]

Seth Rogen‘s Sausage Party cleans up with a new green band trailer. The film is the first R-rated CG animated movie, and it tells the stories of food items realizing what happens to them when they leave the grocery store. Sausage Party also stars Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, and Bill Hader. The movie will be released on […]

In footage from CCTV News China, a couple of rotund panda cubs at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan, China hilariously tried to keep their collective caretaker from cleaning up after them by using every adorable trick they knew how to employ. Unfortunately for the frisky duo, however, the caretaker won […]

Alexei Romanov, a teenager from Zelenodolsk, Tatarstan, Russia, is a incredibly talented young man who taught himself how to play piano despite the fact that he was born without fingers. Romanov became well known in February 2016, when a video of him playing the piano theme from Twilight made its way around the world. 15-year-old, […]

A photo posted by Graphic Dictionary (@graphicdictionary) on Oct 2, 2015 at 1:36pm PDT The Graphic Dictionary of Interesting Words is a collection of art posters, created by London artist Mick Watson of Smart Giant Design, featuring minimalist visuals that aid in understanding and memorizing complex words. The full series of posters are available to […]

Comedian Louis C.K. appeared on the May 18, 2016 episode of Jeopardy! during the show’s Power Players Week. C.K. competed against journalists Kate Bolduan and Jonathan Capeheart in the game, and showed an impressive level of knowledge. C.K. was playing for the Fistula Foundation, and the charity itself got in on the game by creating a Jeopardy! […]

The Food Surgeon once again returned to the morgue in order to perform an autopsy on an unfortunate shallot who appeared to be the intended victim of foul play. Surgeon’s notes: 0:15 – Another John Doe? sigh. I’m getting too old for this. 0:40 – Cadaver approx 2.5″-3.5″ wide. 0:52 – Cadaver approx 3.0″ long. […]

An episode of KQED Science Deep Look reveals that male side-blotched lizards have been playing rock-paper-scissors with their mating strategies for 15 million years. Males of the species are marked under their chins with either yellow, blue, or orange coloring, and that influences their behavior when they compete for mates. Luckily for the species though, […]

In a sweet video submitted to the French television station Equidia, an affectionate mare reached her long beautiful nose over the stall and began repeatedly rocking a little baby in a car seat, as if she were trying to lull the restless child to sleep. Need a babysitter tonight? The mare of our fan, Tracy […]

In a new episode of the adorably informative series “Simon’s Cat Logic“, illustrator Simon Toland and animal behaviorist Nicky Trevorrow explain why cats love cardboard boxes so much. Cats feel safe in enclosed spaces. This explains why cardboard boxes are immensely popular. They feel safe having something enclosed and particularly something with sides. All cats […]

Vat19 answered burning questions about their Spitballs, water-absorbing orbs that grow up to 200 times their original size. The answers involve demonstrations of the Spitballs in different situations, including one Vat19 employee getting into a bathtub full of them. It looks much more pleasant than when he climbed into a tub full of the company’s Liquid […]

In the latest installment of his wonderful “Everything Is a Remix” series, filmmaker Kirby Ferguson takes a detailed look at Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens to demonstrate how director JJ Abrams drew inspiration from a various sources, including what was copied, changed and repackaged from Star Wars IV: A New Hope, the original film […]

In a fantastic video by producer Jessica Leibowitz of Gothamist, we get a special tour of the MAD Magazine offices with longtime editor-in-chief John Ficarra. Writer Ben Yakas further explains everything that he and Jessica experienced at MAD Magazine in his Gothamist article. “People ask me what it’s like to work at MAD,” said John […]

In the latest episode of Brave Wilderness, host Coyote Peterson went out at night into the Costa Rican rainforest to search for snakes and other creepy-crawlies, but instead encountered an unusually playful ocelot kitten who wanted nothing other than to hang out with the happily surprised host. In what is sure to be one of […]

EricThePooh has created brilliant mashup of Star Wars and season 6 episode 3 of Game of Thrones, titled “Oathbreaker,” that turns a massive sword fight at the Tower of Joy into an epic lightsaber battle. via Nerdist Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting. This post was written by Justin Page and published May […]

Netflix has launched Fast.com, a free and ad-free tool that allows users to check their current internet speed on computers and mobile devices. Today we are launching fast.com, a simple-to-use website to help you see how fast your Internet connection is, whether on mobile or broadband, anywhere in the world. And like the Netflix service, […]

In an effort to address the ongoing problem of plastic six-pack rings polluting the oceans and harming local wildlife, the Saltwater Brewery in Delray Beach, Florida partnered with the environmental ad agency We Believers to sell their notable craft beer in six-packs held together with rings made from byproducts of the beer-making process. These rings […]

ElectroBOOM host Mehdi Sadaghdar debunks the claims of a man named Raj Mohan Nair that he has a superhuman ability to pass high levels of electric current through his body. Mohan was the subject of an episode of the History Channel series Stan Lee’s Superhumans, but Sadaghdar doesn’t trust the claims and even recreates the “ability” […]

The artisan candy makers at Lofty Pursuits in Tallahassee, Florida recently used a 19th century fruit drop roller to demonstrate how to make a tasty batch of nectar drop candies. They also go into detail while explaining why are lemon drops called drops. Lofty Pursuits‘ vast collection of candies are available to purchase from the […]

The Fat Awesome sketch “Parking in the City SUCKS” points out just how frustrating it can be to try to park on the street in a city. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting. This post was written by Glen Tickle and published May 19, 2016 on Laughing Squid.

Google Home is a new voice-activated device similar to the Amazon Echo line that uses conversational speech to let users interact with Google services. Users can ask Google Home questions, use it to control music and connected devices or appliances, and get updates about things like flight delays. Google Home uses the new Google Assistant feature […]

Toronto musician Tony Ann recently created an incredible mashup of popular cellphone ringtones that he both composed and played on the piano. via Pleated-Jeans Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting. This post was written by Justin Page and published May 19, 2016 on Laughing Squid.

Erich Chew captured wonderful footage of an octopus kite majestically swimming through the sky with its long tentacles wiggling back and forth at the Marina Barrage in Singapore on May 15th, 2016. photo by Erich Chew via Sam Ellis, The Awesomer Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting. This post was written by Justin […]

“Darth by Darthwest” is an amazing mashup, created by filmmaker Fabrice Mathieu, of Star Wars and Alfred Hitchcock‘s 1959 film North by North by Northwest. It features Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) being chased down by a TIE fighter in a world riddled with sarlaccs and moisture vaporators. Close encounters of the third kind for Cary […]

CBS has released the first teaser trailer for the new Star Trek television series arriving in January 2017 on their digital subscription channel, CBS All Access. The trailer takes us on a quick journey through space and promises new crews, villains, heroes, and worlds before unveiling of the show’s new logo. Host your WordPress blog […]

Joey Thompson, vlogger, comedian and Ryan Gosling lookalike, created a very clever parody sequel to the 2011 film Drive entitled “Drive 2: The Uber Years“. Rather than freelancing as a criminal wheel-man however, in the sequel Gosling‘s character instead uses his handy motoring skills to drive for Uber, where the clients are far more challenging. […]

In the latest of their “Literature” series, the School of Life offers insight into the brilliantly enlightened works of Voltaire, his desire to use his words to influence society, his questions about religion and his legendary desire to crush the despicable – ecrasez l’infâme. Voltaire has said of himself that he wrote to act, and […]

Turn on, tune in, drop out. Through the use of historical news reports, newspaper headlines and interviews, the documentary news gathering organization Retro Report offers a look back at the fascinating history of Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and its eye-opening effect on society. The report also tells how the drug was discovered, why it became […]

In “The Unbeatable Game from the 60s: Dr. Nim,” Standup Maths host Matt Parker demonstrates Dr. Nim, a seemingly simple plastic game that uses physical computing to always win. The game is based on the simple math strategy game Nim where players take turns picking one, two, or three markers per turn with the goal of taking the […]

Disco the Parakeet, a very verbal budgie, spent a recent afternoon putting forth an adorable stream of consciousness that employed just about every phrase in his rather extensive lexicon. Disco and a whole lot of sounds – some his, some just whatever. Yes, Disco is 100% the real deal! Not all budgies can/will mimic in […]

Ghosts overrun New York City in the second trailer for the new Ghostbusters starring Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones. The reboot of the 1984 classic comes out on July 15, 2016. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting. This post was written by Glen Tickle and published May 18, 2016 […]

“Please Touch the Art” is a poignant short film about artist Andrew Myers, his amazing tactile portrait made from screws and his mission to surprise his blind friend George Wurtzel with one. Wurtzel himself is a tactile artist and teaches the subject at Enchanted Hills Camp in Napa, California. George is a blind artisan and […]

The Pilot by Waverly Labs is an earpiece that translates a foreign language for the wearer, allowing two people to hold a conversation while speaking different languages. The Pilot is similar to the babel fish from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a small fish that is inserted into a person’s ear and can translate any […]

Kitchener, Ontario engineer James Hobson (aka The Hacksmith) is the main man behind Discovery Channel‘s Daily Planet show Make It Real. The Hacksmith builds working prototypes of items from movies and television shows that are requested by his viewers. In honor of Captain America: Civil War releasing in theaters, James built an electromagnet bracer for […]

In a new episode of the informative trivia series Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler tells the story of the iconic ruby slippers from the 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz, how many pairs were made, who had access to the slippers, and where they are now. Few items of fictional clothing […]

In an episode of his Amazing Places series, Tom Scott visited Genoa, Italy and rode the Ascensore Castello d’Albertis-Montegalletto, an elevator that travels both vertically and horizontally. Scott wondered how it was possible for the elevator to travel in both directions safely, but the answer turned out to be rather simple, and it’s the same method used […]

In December 2015, the BBC replaced the poorly-received Sonic Sunglasses that belonged to the twelfth iteration of Doctor Who, with a new and intricate Sonic Screwdriver that featured all sorts of bells and whistles. Now, six-months later, the BBC has released a faithful toy reproduction the Doctor’s iconic tool. This new toy version is a […]