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Serbian filmmaker Sava Zivkovic has created “Freight”, a starkly beautiful digital animation about a gorgeously modeled humanoid who lives inside a mysterious cave and performs a single, but arduous purpose of fetching and carrying a red stone to feed into a hungry mouth that protrudes from the wall. After completing his task, the tired creature...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Tired Humanoid Finds Out That Things Can Always Get Worse in the Stark Digitally Animated Short ‘Freight’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In an affable Ted Ed Lesson written by archeologist David Ian Howe and animated by Cabong Studios, narrator Addison Anderson explains the turbulent history of how dogs went from wild, unsocial and threatening beings to the domestic, loving animals of today. Since their emergence over 200,000 years ago, modern humans have established communities all over...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post An Animated History of Domesticated Dogs first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Filmmaker Dj Hammers (previously) who enjoys capturing the subway trains in and around New York City captured hypnotic, high-definition footage of a 100 minute ride along 8th Avenue Express A train as seen from the operators point-of-view. The train started at 207th Street in Inwood, Manhattan and culminated at the beachside town of Rockaway Park,...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Hypnotic High Definition Footage of 100 Minutes on the A Train From Uptown Manhattan to a Queens Beach first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In promotion of their soon-to-be-released Björk tribute album, the Vitamin String Quartet performed an incredible string interpretation of the Icelandic vocalist‘s classic song “Venus as a Boy”. Accompanying this cover wonderful stop-motion paper cut animation by Seen Film that visually enriches the music. The official music video for our take on @bjork’s “Venus As A...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Beautiful Stop-Motion Music Video for an Incredible String Quartet Cover of the Björk Song ‘Venus as a Boy’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Russian freelance artist Aleksei Vinogradov has created a wonderful digitally illustrated series of famous fictional characters posed with their equally well-known alter egos or their favorite pets. Included is Ron Perlman alongside Hellboy, Raven Darkhölme with Mystique perched upon her shoulder, Jon Snow with a baby Ghost, Leeloo with an imagined puppy and Bruce Wayne...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Digital Illustrations of Famous Fictional Characters Posed With Their Alter Egos or Their Favorite Pets first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A trio of strangely adorable snails heartily enjoyed a meal of all sorts of yummy goodness that was put upon a plate for their convenience. This footage was made into an amusing timelapse that made it appear as if these hungry gastropods were gobbling their food down as fast as they could in order to...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Strangely Adorable Timelapse of Three Hungry Snails Gobbling Down a Yummy Meal as Fast as They Can first appeared on Laughing Squid.

The AbleChair is an incredibly versatile wheelchair that can be adjusted into a number of positions between sitting and standing with a sliding touch on a smartphone app with recallable positions. The chair is designed to help with physical therapy, gait strengthening, and strengthening exercises. The chair has an embedded USB charger and can go...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post AbleChair, A Versatile Power Wheelchair That Easily Adjusts From Sitting to Standing Using an App first appeared on Laughing Squid.

French musician FKJ performed a beautiful live set upon the stunning Salar de Uyuni in southwest Bolivia, the largest salt flat in the world. The event, produced by the livestreaming media channel Cercle, was half-planned, half-improvised according to the artist. WoopLive at Salar de Uyuni for Cercle now on YThttps://t.co/4N06tXnZz3?half planed – half improvised pic.twitter.com/XdfeHoGefP...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post French Musician FKJ Performs Live on Salar de Uyuni, The World’s Largest Salt Flat in Southwest Bolivia first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Areaware has released an adorable, bite-sized mini-puzzle that looks just like a scrumptious chocolate bar that can be taken apart and put back together as many times as you want without worrying about the calories. This puzzle is part of Areaware’s “Little Puzzle Thing” series that features foods from broccoli to sugary cereals to full...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Scrumptious Bite-Sized Chocolate Bar Mini-Puzzle first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Artist Eiko Ojala (previously) creates amazing digital illustrations that look like they were constructed out of paper. Because Ojala works are featured in a number of newspapers and magazines around the world, many of his creations have an editorial bent to them. This includes those illustrations that are medical in nature, focus on the world’s...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Amazing Digital Paper Cut Illustrations That Focus On Editorial Issues of the Day first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In 2016, gaming vlogger Old Game Box put together a very handy animated guide to making a basic but good cup of coffee. He first starts off with the type of beans and the different roasts from which to choose, before moving on to helpful suggestions such as the type of water to use, the...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post An Animated Guide to Making a Basic Cup of Coffee first appeared on Laughing Squid.

The day after the 2019 International Holocaust Remembrance Day, vlogger Casey Neistat posted a really beautiful and inspiring documentary that he and his filmmaker brother Van Neistat made as the Neistat Brothers in 2003 about the legendary Lillian Vernon, founder of Lillian Vernon catalog company. Vernon was born Lillian Menasche in Leipzig, Germany but fled...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Entrepreneur Lillian Vernon Visits the Homes Her Family Left Escaping the Nazis in a 2003 Neistat Brothers Film first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Filmmaker Kevin B. Parry has created a series of tantalizing stop-motion animations that reveal the hidden mosaics that live inside fruits and vegetables. Each piece was meticulously cut and photographed, frame-by-frame to create the seamless flow of each reveal. Amongst the produce he exemplified was an apple, an orange, a banana, an avocado, a tomato,...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Tantalizing Stop-Motion Animation That Reveals the Hidden Patterns Inside Various Fruits and Vegetables first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Amiel Stanek, an assistant food editor at Bon Appétit, takes a look at the incredible, edible egg and demonstrates how flexible this viscous protein can prepared be with 59 different recipes. Stanek bakes the eggs, fries the eggs, steams the eggs, scrambles the eggs, irons the eggs, mashes the eggs and even provides several raw...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Food Expert Shares 59 Distinct Ways of Cooking Eggs first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Brooklyn kinetic artist Joseph Herscher (previously) of Joseph’s Machines invited fellow machine maker Sprice Machines of San Diego to dine with him at a very long table. When Joseph asked for the salt, Sprice set into motion an intricate Rube Goldberg machine that ran the length of the table and took over four minutes to...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post An Intricate Rube Goldberg Machine That Takes Over Four Minutes to Pass the Salt Across the Table first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In an astute animated Ted Ed video essay written by Pazit Cahlon and Alex Gendler, narrator Addison Anderson explains the origins of the word “Machiavellian” means and the history of the verbose Italian diplomat behind the name. The essay also offers its general definition as being self-interested, without empathy or moral regard and a desire...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post How Machiavelli May Have Been Issuing a Warning About Tyranny Rather Than Embracing Its Philosophy first appeared on Laughing Squid.

The talented students of the North Bergen High School Drama Club took on a really ambitious project of adapting the classic Ridley Scott film Alien into a theatrical production. According to those in attendance, the performance was simply out of this world. The club created stage props and scenery out of recycled items, making the...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post North Bergen New Jersey High School Drama Club Performs a Fantastic Stage Adaptation of ‘Alien’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In September 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared on The Dick Cavett Show where they talked with the host about the breakup of The Beatles, particularly whether or not Yoko was the cause. She didn’t split the Beatles …The Beatles were drifting apart on their own. …everything’s fun off and on you know so,...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post John Lennon and Yoko Ono Discuss the Breakup of The Beatles and Other Subjects With Dick Cavett in 1971 first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In 1910, British naturalist and filmmaker F Percy Smith created “The Acrobatic Fly”, a fascinating film that demonstrated the remarkable strength, coordination, cooperation and agility of common houseflies. Smith displayed the talent of his subjects through several exercises such as juggling objects such as a blade of grass, a tiny barbell or even another fly....Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Fascinating Vintage Film From 1910 That Showcases the Strength and Agility of Common Houseflies first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Los Angeles professor, animator, and comic artist Fran Krause (previously) has released The Creeps: A Deep Dark Fears Collection, a wonderful compilation of his Deep Dark Fears webcomics, which express perfectly irrational, niggling, idiosyncratic reader submitted fears that are translated into illustrated form. Here he brings readers more of the creepy, funny, and idiosyncratic fears...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Collection of Reader Submitted ‘Deep Dark Fears’ Translated Into Comic Form by Illustrator Fran Krause first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Award-winning musician Rob Landes quite skillfully and lightheartedly performed the Super Mario Bros. theme music on a violin at four increasing experience levels of gameplay – noob, amateur, hardcore, and elite. How does the Super Mario Theme music sound played at 4 different levels on violin? via Boing Boing Related Laughing Squid PostsMariachi Band Performs...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post The Super Mario Bros. Theme Music Performed on a Violin at Four Increasing Experience Levels first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Europe’s first underwater restaurant, aptly named Under, has just opened in Lindesnes on the southern tip of Norway. While the entryway of the restaurant is on land, the unique submerged dining room sits in a half-sunken structure that rests upon the seabed just five meters below the surface of the frigid North Atlantic. Designed by...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Under, An Underwater Restaurant on the Southern Tip of Norway Featuring Wonderful Views of Marine Life first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Beginning in 1968, a wisecracking orange tabby cat named Morris peppered daytime television with commercials about his being “the world’s most finicky cat” and his loyal human who always provides 9Lives cat food to satisfy Morris’ gargantuan appetite. In 1986, a calendar was released featuring photos of the finicky feline along with adorably snide asides...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post 1986 Calendar Featuring Morris the Cat Making Snide Remarks on How Technology Is Changing the World first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Travel vlogger Johnny Harris waxed poetically about an iconic, ubiquitous image of Hallstatt, a village that sits below the Austrian Alps. Harris commented that he’s gazed upon this image many times throughout his life, his frustrating search to see more of that little town in photos and his realization that he had to see it...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post How an Iconic Photo of a Picturesque Austrian Town Encouraged a Travel Vlogger to Want to See More first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Did you know that there is a chef proudly presenting his friend chicken hidden on the map of the USA? Well, there is and that’s the easiest way to find out where Kentucky is located! via Miss Cellania Related Laughing Squid PostsMimal, The Elf Hidden in the Map of the United StatesClever Necktie Features Hidden...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Chef With Fried Chicken Hidden on Map of the USA first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Frenchly, a site for Francophiles based in the United States, asked several native speakers of French to pronounce fairly common words in English. Several words, such as “rural” and “brewery”, have relatively simple spelling but are rather difficult to pronounce even for native English speakers, while words such as “colonel” and “throughout” don’t look anything...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post French People Try to Pronounce Words in English first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Award-winning filmmaker Tyler Fairbank has captured the beauty of the changing seasons as reflected in New York City’s Central Park in gorgeous 8K high definition. This stunning timelapse is completely comprised of still images taken within the two and a half mile park over the course of two years and each frame features composited, identically...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Stunning HD Timelapse That Captures Two Years of Changing Seasons in New York City’s Central Park first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Ahmet Serif Yildirim, a director, motion designer, and tattoo artist in Berlin has created a brilliant but unsettling 3D animation that depicts various phobias in great detail. Amongst the fears Yildirim has illustrated is arachnophobia (spiders), ophidiophobia (snakes), trypophobia (patterns of holes), thalassophobia (ocean), glossophobia (stagefright), spectrophobia (mirrors) and hodophobia (travel). via Vimeo Staff Picks...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post An Unsettling 3D Animation Depicting Various Phobias first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A beautiful and very steady shepherd named Rush quite confidently balanced a rotating fidget spinner on his dolichocephalic nose and skillfully walked towards his human without a single disruption. When the spinner stopped spinning, Rush patiently waited until someone could put it in motion again. This is my dog. His name is Rush and he...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Steady Dog Masters the Art of the Fidget Spinner first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Just a few weeks before his unexpected and tragic death on December 8, 1980, legendary musician John Lennon (formerly of The Beatles) went into the studio to work on a demo of the last song he unknowingly would ever record, a tender song entitled “You Saved My Soul (With Your True Love)”. The appearance of...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post The Last Song John Lennon Ever Recorded first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In a teaser trailer for the long-awaited, highly-anticipated film based upon the all-too-short HBO series Deadwood, a concerned Al Swearingen (Ian McShane) says a few words about the town while its former residents reunite after ten years to celebrate North Dakota statehood. While times have changed, many attitudes have not. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post The Reunited Folks of ‘Deadwood’ Find That Times Are Changing in the Long Awaited Film Based on the Series first appeared on Laughing Squid.

The Lykoi (Greek word for wolf) is a fairly recent breed of cats who are known for their big eyes and sparse coat make them look a lot like (fictional) werewolves, monkeys or even opossums. In fact, these cats are colloquially known as the wolf cat. The breed was established with five felines born in...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Lykoi, A Recent Breed of Cat Whose Sparse Dark Coats and Big Eyes Make Them Look Like Werewolves first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Professor Hubert Zitt, who is widely known for his fascinating lectures on Star Wars, Star Trek and other science fiction, saw the perfect opportunity to put his distinctive mark on the university where he works. Zitt, along with his father-in-law and several helpful students, transformed the perfectly shaped Zweibrücken Observatory of the Natural Science Association...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post German Observatory Transformed Into a Giant R2-D2 first appeared on Laughing Squid.

An adorable pink bellied galah (Australian cockatoo) named Bogie seemingly sprouted a pair of dancing human arms that appeared overnight. Or maybe it was all just a dream… I had the trippiest dream last night that I had arms……… Bogie was so amused by his arms that he decided to put a call out to...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Pink Cockatoo Sprouts a Pair of Dancing Human Arms first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Video essayist and web producer Evan Puschak aka The Nerdwriter takes a deep look at the way legendary actor Ian McKellen employs his bright baby blues to communicated with particular nuance to his scenes. Puschak zeroes in McKellen’s role as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings film series, noting that as the story’s moral...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post How Ian McKellen Uses His Eyes to Convey Emotion first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery partnered up with Kodak to develop SuperEight, a puckery super Gose that has the perfect pH level to, in combination with other natural ingredients, process Kodak’s Super 8 film. This sessionable super Gose is brewed with eight heroic ingredients: prickly pear, mango, boysenberry, blackberry, raspberry, elderberry, kiwi juices, toasted quinoa and...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Dogfish Head SuperEIGHT, A Super Gose Beer With the Perfect pH Level to Develop Kodak Super 8 Film first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Google has created its very first artificially intelligent powered Google Doodle in celebration of Johann Sebastian Bach‘s birthday on this day in 1685. This wonderfully interactive experience allows users to draw notes on a music staff that automatically become harmonized with just a click. The AI draws from 306 Bach compositions to determine how to...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Google Creates Its First Interactive AI Powered Google Doodle in Celebration of Johann Sebastian Bach first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Lithuanian photographer Andrius Burba, who captured a different side of cats, dogs, and horses by photographing them from underneath a glass table, has added a twist to this very clever series. Instead of the dramatic black backgrounds he previously used, Burba added a little color to the mix. As you might have noticed, the original...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Fabulous Photographs of Cats Taken From Underneath a Glass Table With Brilliant Background Colors first appeared on Laughing Squid.

With the final season of Game of Thrones swiftly approaching, Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of The Take take the opportunity to inscribe another chapter of their ongoing analysis regarding the flawed characters of the ongoing series. They take a look at Gregor Clegane aka “The Mountain” and his complete embodiment all that is brutally...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post How Gregor Clegane aka ‘The Mountain’ Embodies All That Is Brutally Violent in ‘Game of Thrones’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

An adorable rescued tabby cat named Pickle began playing with the Newton’s Cradle that was sitting upon his human’s desk. The curious kitty grabbed the sphere that was closest to him and then let go. Pickle noticed how the momentum of the sphere shifted the entire structure, stopped it and then tried it again. He...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Curious Cat Figures Out How to Play With the Swinging Spheres of a Newton’s Cradle first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Inventor Edwin Van Ruymbeke of Marseille, France, who created the furtive Bionic Bird drone, has crafted another biomimetic flying robot called the MetaFly. This highly flexible and extremely durable drone looks and acts like a delicate insect for exacting flight. The MetaFly can be used both outdoors as well as indoors, is crash-proof, has its...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post MetaFly, A Durable, Flexible Flying Robot That Mimics the Movements of a Delicate Insect for Accurate Flight first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In a rather forthright video essay, the host of You Can’t Unhear This addresses the mysterious goings on that make very messy work of The Beatles song, “I’m Looking Through You” from the 1965 album Rubber Soul. The narrator address mid-phrase edits, dropped beats and instruments, ghost vocals, stray guitar licks, confusing channel consistency and...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post How a Variety of Musical Oddities Make The Beatles’ ‘I’m Looking Through You’ a Very Messy Song first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Researchers at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have built a highly intelligent robotic arm that is able to gently pick up objects that it has never seen before and with great precision, place them exactly where and how they belong. The team used 3-dimensional “keypoints” to visually represent the objects. The...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Robotic Arm That Picks Up Unfamiliar Objects With Great Precision and Places Them Where They Belong first appeared on Laughing Squid.

After checking to his family’s vineyard in South Australia, vintner Tim Withrow of Withrow Wines returned to his car and found that a hot and thirsty koala bear had joined Withrow’s dog in enjoying the air conditioning that was left on during the errand. Withrow kindly offered the koala some water and then tried to...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Hot and Thirsty Koala Bear Seeks Cool Refuge in the Air Conditioned Environment of a Winemaker’s Car first appeared on Laughing Squid.

The third season of the wildly popular series Stranger Things takes place in the summer of 1985, where the kids of Hawkins, Indiana begin to learn there’s more to life than playing games in Mikey’s basement and start to put away childish things. Yet when a new leader builds a new mall that attracts a...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post The Kids of Hawkins Start to Grow Up During the Summer of 1985 in ‘Stranger Things’ Season Three first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In Quentin Tarantino‘s ninth feature film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, famous TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) try to break into a strangely unfamiliar film industry together during the raucously changing year of 1969. Damian Lewis plays a tough Steve McQueen and Mike Moh...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post TV Star and His Stunt Double Try to Break Into Film In Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In an arboreal TED-Ed lesson written by Valentin Hammoudi and animated by Doug Alberts, narrator Addison Anderson explains the “hydraulic limitation hypothesis,”, which posits that a tree will stop growing once it reaches a certain height. Included in this model are transpiration, capillary action, and root pressure, all of which struggle to function when a...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Why Trees Stop Growing After a Certain Height first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In a fascinating report for Quartz, reporter Corrinne Purtill talks about the disturbing phenomenon that has invaded the dreams of thousands of people around the world. In these nightmares, a silent, faceless man in a hat presents himself in a vaguely menacing manner just before a terrifying episode of sleep paralysis sets in. Purtill speaks...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post The Disturbing Worldwide Phenomenon of Hat Man Appearing in Nightmares Before Sleep Paralysis Sets In first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A tiny little kitten who was sitting next to stately German shepherd was repeatedly hit in the face every time the dog’s tail swished. After a being hit a few too many times, the kitten decided to fight back. The dog didn’t seem to mind despite the kitten’s relentless attacks, as it was all just...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Kitten Doesn’t Understand How a Dog’s Tail Works first appeared on Laughing Squid.