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An adorable American curl kitty named Snow, who has tiny Totoro pattern on his tummy, is always able to identify where the location of the ball in a playful shell game. It doesn’t how many cups are used in the game, Snow is always right. According to his human, it’s not the game, but rather […]

In an incredibly informative report for Vox, writer Dara Lind explains the concept of “Panda Diplomacy” and how these beautiful Ailuropodae have become an integral form of currency to the financial and international concerns of China. Lind uses the example of Bao Bao, a giant panda who was sent back to China, despite the fact […]

DangerousAndAwesome has created an amusing, yet “mildly interesting” video guide on how to build an incredibly slow saw. He was able to “cram woodworking, 3D printing, Arduino, and programming into one extra-crappy project.” In this video, I use a generic servo motor to make a terrible saw. The outcome was exactly as I was expecting. […]

ThinkGeek is featuring a nestled Star Wars Death Star teapot and mug set that pulls apart to reveal a teapot top and mug base. Related Laughing Squid PostsA ‘Star Wars’ Teapot That Looks Like R2-D2Star Wars Death Star Tea InfuserHow to Make a Star Wars R2-D2 Steampunk Teapot

Geeki Tikis purveyors, Beeline Creative, have made a wonderful series of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Marvel ceramic tiki mugs featuring all sorts of popular characters. The Star Trek and Marvel mugs will release later this year. Star Wars mugs are currently available to purchase from ThinkGeek. images via Geeki Tikis via Inside the Magic […]

Dylan F. Glas, Malcolm Doering, Phoebe Liu, Takayuki Kanda, and Hiroshi Ishiguro have created “Robot’s Delight,” a music video tribute to The Sugarhill Gang‘s 1979 hit song “Rapper’s Delight” where Japanese android Robovie-II and Erica rap about their complex artificial intelligence. Here is The Sugarhill Gang’s original song. via IEEE Spectrum Related Laughing Squid PostsBrian […]

Life stars Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal sat down with Wired to answer the most searched questions about the themselves. Related Laughing Squid PostsHumans Discover a Dangerous Living Sample From Mars in the Science Fiction Thriller ‘Life’Astronauts Encounter a Deadly Alien Microorganism From Mars in the Second Trailer for ‘Life’The Cast of Sesame Street Answers […]

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Jason Jensen shared a video of his son Trey’s terrifying experience feeding a llama. The llama had stuck its head in the car to eat from a bucket he was holding while his family was visiting Tennessee Safari Park. Trey has since recovered from his llama trauma and gave his respoinse to being the top […]

While watching tension grow between two roosters who feeding upon the grass, a concerned turkey decided to take matters into his own claws and physically acted as a blockade between the stubborn birds, chasing off the one who appeared to be the interloper in the situation. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsA Fascinating Conversation Between […]

Musically trained engineer Koka Nikoladze has created Koka’s Beat Machine No. 3, the third of his amazing machines, which like the others is completely programmable and able to create an amazing variety of rhythmic and melodic patterns. Koka’s Beat Machine No. 1 Koka’s Beat Machine No. 2 via The Awesomer Related Laughing Squid PostsAmazing Handmade […]

In another amusing episode of her wonderfully crafty culinary series, a young woman named Xiao Ye aka Office Ono received a text from her friend with a picture of a beautiful bean sauce noodle dish. Not one to miss out, Xiao decided to prepare the dish herself, right at her desk with a minimum of […]

When her humans go to bed, a beautiful longhaired tuxedo cat named Sophie knows that it’s also time for her to go nighty-night. At whatever time they decide, Sophie puts herself to sleep on her tiny human styled bed that has everything she needs to get a good night’s sleep, including at least one human […]

Luksan Wunder has created “The Most Unsatisfying Video in the World Ever Made” which features a series of very frustrating vignettes of people not properly completing actions or failing miserably at doing things. via Digg Related Laughing Squid PostsUnsatisfying, An Animated Compilation of Incredibly Frustrating Situations That Occur Every DaySome of the Most Expensive Video […]

In a particularly poignant episode of the animated lost interview series “Blank on Blank“, a 23-year old George Michael shares his thoughts on sexuality, the advantage of youth, Wham!‘s historic performance in China and his confidence in becoming extremely famous later on in his career. This lost interview took place with music journalist Joe Smith […]

Documentary filmmaker Francis Chee created a fascinating timelapse video using a custom microscope showing the cell division in a frog egg, from four cells into millions, over the course of 33 hours. via Digg Related Laughing Squid PostsRooting Out What Happens When Plants and Trees Get CancerA Eulogy Written on a 500-Year-Old Ostrich Egg ShellA […]

Former NASA engineer Mark Rober spent the past 3 years creating an incredible moving dartboard that allows you to automatically hit the bullseye each and every time that you throw a dart. I fulfilled a 3 year-long dream to create a dartboard where you get a bullseye every time thanks to some engineering. Basically, you […]

Vox explores how bad typography choices throughout history have goofed up more than just the Oscars mix-up that went down earlier this year. The 2017 Oscars ended with a pretty shocking mix-up. Announcer Warren Beatty incorrectly named La La Land as the Best Picture winner, and the mistake wasn’t revealed until crew members had already […]

On New Year’s Day, a genial but determined bicyclist attempted to clear pedestrians from the bike land on the Brooklyn Bridge. Rather than pushing his way through, however, he offered the foot traffic plenty of warning with his beautiful voice singing “You’re in the Bike Lane” to the tune of the iconic Star Wars tune […]

While attending the 2017 IEEE Virtual Reality conference in Los Angeles, Disney Research senior research scientist Günter Niemeyer and lab associate Matthew Pan demonstrated how their VR system allows people to accurately catch a real ball while in a virtual reality environment. We examine three visualizations: rendering a matching virtual ball, the predicted trajectory of […]

Singer, actor and model Selena Gomez honestly answered 73 random questions by Joe Sabia for Vogue while walking around her airy Los Angeles home. The video accompanies her first Vogue cover and a forthcoming feature in which Gomez opens up about the importance of taking care of herself. Whether it’s acting, singing, or appearing on […]

Jame Bridle, an artist, writer, journalist and publisher living in Greece, performed a clever experiment that confused a self-driving car, causing it to trap itself symbolically and physically in a circle of salt. Using the universally understood traffic symbols of solid lines (stop) and dotted lines (go), Bridle created a situation where the car understood […]

Former early childhood educators Julien Bauby and Mehdi Bennai Smires, owners of the MJ Animaction event agency, came to the rescue after a huge winter storm hit Montreal last week. After seeing numerous citizens in need from their shop window, Mehdi quickly dressed up as Batman and ran outside to help anyone that he could […]

“Hi Stranger”, an intimate, oddly soothing yet somewhat uncomfortable claymation video written, directed, and animated by Kirsten Lepore. via The World’s Best Ever Related Laughing Squid PostsStranger Things Retold as an Old School 8-Bit Animated Video GameLEGO Stop-Motion Animated Remake of ‘Stranger Things’ Season OneStranger Things Hand Drawn Flipbook Animation

A rare behind-the-scenes video from the March 11th episode of Saturday Night Live shows how the very talented Kate McKinnon is amazingly transformed by the makeup crew out of her Jeff Sessions costume and into Shud the Mermaid using only the time they had available – a four minute commercial break. On March 11th, 2017, […]

The enigmatic electronic music duo Daft Punk has released a really interesting compilation of the songs they’ve sampled, naming both artist and title, alongside an example of how they incorporated that sample in their own music. Such artists include Sister Sledge, George Duke, Tavares, Little Anthony and the Imperials, ELO and Barry Manilow. via The […]

ThinkGeek is featuring an officially licensed Super Mario Bros. themed puppet that will turn your hand into one of the many carnivorous piranha plants from the Mushroom Kingdom. These fearsome plants are a staple in Super Mario universe. Sometimes they come from pipes, sometimes they grow from the ground, and sometimes they spit fireballs. It’s […]

A post shared by @phillip.kremer on Apr 23, 2016 at 9:20pm PDT Houston artist Phillip Kremer used his keen digital manipulation skills to create an extremely disturbing, yet hilarious collection of portrait collages out of random imagery and body parts. Not a single stranger or celebrity from around the world is safe from Phillip’s Frankensteined […]

The Essential Electronics Toolkit by iFixit is a wallet friendly kit designed to “tackle just about every precision job on your to-do list.” It is available to purchase from the Laughing Squid store for $19.95. It’s one thing to be handy around the house, but it’s another entirely to be handy with the technology in […]

A post shared by OTOTO Design (@ototodesign) on Jan 4, 2017 at 7:00am PST Product and graphic designer Uli Ben Israel teamed up with OTOTO to create Agatha, a cute little purple kitchen witch designed to sit on a spoon and prevent your pot’s lid from closing. Agatha is available to purchase from Amazon and […]

Domino’s new ad campaign for their pizza tracker recreates iconic scenes from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with actor Joe Keery (Steve Harrington) of Stranger Things. Alan Ruck, who played Cameron in the original film, made a special appearance during their spin on the memorable “race home” scene. Related Laughing Squid PostsTotal Strangers Attempt to Recreate […]

A post shared by From AtelierNoboru (@noboruhoareau) on Jan 14, 2017 at 5:49am PST French needle artist Noboru Hoareau has created an elegant line of gorgeous hand-beaded crawling insects including scarabs, scorpions and spiders as well as butterflies, lady bugs and horseflies, which are sewn directly onto fabric and put into frames and lightboxes. Many […]

While on safari at the Masai Mara National Park, an unsuspecting tourist got the surprise of his life when a curious wild cheetah jumped into the same vehicle where he was waiting inside. Luckily, the tourist remained calm and the big cat carried on without incident. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsPhotographer Documents Wild Cheetah’s […]

A post shared by Accuride International (@accurideus) on Mar 14, 2017 at 12:13pm PDT Ever since Accuride Southeastern District Sales Manager Michael Reeg began working from home, he has continuously recognized his beloved dog and faithful officemate Meeka every quarter of the year with as employee of the quarter. In an interview with The Dodo, […]

The Herbert H. Warrick, Jr. Museum of Communications shared of video demonstrating a vintage telephone with a unique dialing mechanism called a Trommelwähler. The phone is similar to a rotary phone, but with the numbers arranged vertically rather than in a circle. I've seen this style of dial illustrated in early human-factors study reports. I […]

Members of the group Nogizaka46 star as mice women who sing, dance, and flee from a giant cat in a Japanese ad campaign for Mouse Computers. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsA Whimsical Cat Paw Computer Mouse With Soft, Squishy Comforting Pads UnderneathKensington’s New Ultra-Thin Wireless Mouse SeriesLife Size Mouse Trap Halloween Show Photos

In “How Much Sleep Do You REALLY Need?” by Life Noggin, narrator Pat Graziosi aka Blocko explains the necessary amount of shuteye that humans need at different stages of their lives and reaffirming that getting enough sleep is crucial to one’s health. With a study that looked at older adults, researchers found that sleeping less […]

Several enterprising students at UC Berkeley have created ChannelTime.tv, a social streaming service that compiles videos from different sections of reddit and puts them into a single source that plays continuously. Users are able to rate videos, chat with one another and even work together to skip a video. Sit back, relax, and indulge yourself […]

A post shared by Sesame Street (@sesamestreet) on Mar 20, 2017 at 7:32am PDT Sesame Street has introduced Julia, a four-year-old character with autism. Along with Julia, the show has also created a site for parents and children with information about autism and started the See Amazing in All Children campaign. Julia has already appeared […]

In 2011, New York artist Warren King created an incredible full suit of black knight armor for a 6-year-old using cardboard, paint, hot glue, rubber bands, and velcro. Warren shared his entire DIY process on Flickr. via My Modern Met Related Laughing Squid PostsTesting a Knight’s Mobility While Wearing a Full Set of Metal ArmorTaiwanese […]

In a short documentary for The Guardian entitled “The Internet Warriors“, director Kyrre Lien traveled around the world to speak with prolific and profane online contrarians (trolls), offering a peek into their personal lives and finding out their reasons for doing what they do. Why do so many people use the internet to harass and […]

The Graham Norton Show has put together an absolutely hilarious compilation of some of the most outrageous and very personal stories that his famous guests have shared while seated upon the famous red couch. Related Laughing Squid PostsHugh Jackman Cracks up Over Sir Patrick Stewart’s Circumcision Story on The Graham Norton ShowSome of the Best […]

Oakland, California 6th grade history and science teacher Ian Walters has returned as Gollum from The Lord of the Rings to perform a precious cover of the hit 1983 song “Time After Time” by Cyndi Lauper. Ian created the video to promote a Kickstarter campaign for his band, Headphone Hair, and their first full-length music […]

John Kucko, a talented photographer in the Western New York town of Penfield has captured absolutely amazing photos and videos of a house on the shores of Lake Ontario that had become completely encased in ice. the high winds and bitterly cold weather of Storm Stella that moved across the Northeast United States during the […]

The Stress Spinner by Sky Innovations is a soothing handheld toy for keeping your mind focused and fidgeting fingers busy. It is available to purchase from the Laughing Squid store for $19.99 (66% off retail price). Deal with your stress and fidgety hands in a more productive way with the Stress Spinner. The hottest new […]

A 2011 video shows a game of pool being played on a gyroscopic self-leveling pool table onboard the Radiance of the Seas cruise ship. The video was taken while the ship was sailing through rough weather, so the table’s movements were particularly active, but the balls managed to stay in place. This is a video […]

Los Angeles maker Allen Pan of Sufficiently Advanced has created a clever home automation system for his domicile that is controlled by the iconic ocarina wind instrument from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Fans of Alan can help support his future work on Patreon. A post shared by Allen Pan (@sufficientlyadvanced) on Mar […]

Now You See It explains how and why chess is used symbolically in movies and television so frequently. The classic games serves as an easy to recognize image of conflict, strategy, and intelligence that can help viewers understand character relationships and motivations. Chess is everywhere in movies, and it can mean a lot more than […]

A post shared by Derek VanAlthuis (@vanalthuisstudios) on Mar 8, 2017 at 4:39pm PST New Jersey filmmaker and photographer Derek VanAlthuis of VanAlthuis Studios used his light painting skills to capture beautiful photos of Faith Leuzarder rising from the ashes as a fiery phoenix. Derek was heavily inspired for his photo shoot by the work […]

Binging With Babish host Andrew Rea demonstrates how to prepare Jake’s perfect sandwich from Adventure Time which features a full loaf of bread, a steak, a whole deboned Cornish game hen, and aioli with the soul of a lobster. Scholars have attempted to crack the code to the perfect sandwich for millennia – in the […]