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Homestar Runner goes for the gold in a brand new episode written by creators Mike Chapman and Craig Zobel in 1996 that Homestar and Strong Bad uncover after 20 years. Homestar and Strong Bad discover a long-lost Homestar Runner story. They read it. That’s all. Related Laughing Squid PostsStrong Bad Warns Homestar Runner About the […]

Pigcasso is no ordinary pig. After being rescued by the wonderful humans at Farm Sanctuary SA, the creative little porcine lady decided the best way to express herself was through painting and is rarely seen without her trademark paintbrush in mouth, though it does happen occasionally. Pigcasso’s finished art work is available for purchase and […]

Kat Rosenfield and Scott Harris of Looper have gathered their information and released the untold story of the legendary Sith Lord Darth Vader from Star Wars. They provide information on the five men it took to play Vader, how the voice was a secret, how Vader had an apprentice, and more. A long time ago, […]

San Francisco artist and cartographer Michelle Chandra of Dirt Alley Design has turned street grids of San Francisco and Brooklyn into amazingly intricate puzzle mazes. Michelle’s puzzle mazes of San Francisco and Brooklyn are available to purchase in different color variations from the Dirt Alley Design website. Using street centerline data available in the public […]

photo by Riccardo Ghilardi photographer – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 Carrie Fisher, the legendary author, screenwriter, producer, speaker, hero and actress who most notably portrayed Princess Leia in Star Wars, passed away on at 8:55 AM on Tuesday, December 27, 2016 due to complications from heart failure. She was only 60 years old. Family […]

In October 2016, Great Big Story visited with Helping Hands, an organization in Boston, Massachusetts that trains tiny capuchin monkeys to act as helpful service animals to disabled persons who have lost the ability to use their hands due to spinal cord or brain injury. The animals are perfectly suited for the job due to […]

H.J. Simpson has shared a video that features a side-by-side comparison between the old intro for The Simpsons from 1991 and the show’s high-definition update that was released in 2009. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsHan Solo, P.I., The Intro From Magnum, P.I. Remixed With Star WarsHomemade Remake of the 1966 ‘Batman’ TV Series IntroThe […]

Tom Gosling (a.k.a. “MessyPandas“) has created a retro 1980s version of the intro for HBO’s popular Westworld television series. MessyPandas’ awesome synthwave style remix of the Westworld theme song is available to stream and download from Soundcloud. via The Roosevelts, The Awesomer Related Laughing Squid PostsAn Anthropomorphic Robot Slowly Realizes That Something Is Amiss in […]

“It’s not the fall that kills you, Sherlock. Of all people, you should know that, it’s not the fall, it’s never the fall. It’s the landing!” In celebration of the upcoming January 1, 2017 premiere of the fourth series of the highly-acclaimed BBC One show Sherlock, video editor David Garuchava of The Garo Studios has […]

Filmmakers Clinton Jones and Freddie Wong of RocketJump have created “Five Nights at Freddie’s,” a parody of the popular point-and-click survival mystery video game Five Nights at Freddy’s. Freddie spends a week in his house while an escaped convicted may be on the loose in his neighborhood. All sorts of peculiar and silly things occur […]

Chris Poole, the careful human to the kitty duo of Cole and Marmalade offered a very helpful visual guide to common household items that can present a hazard to the resident feline(s). The list includes such dangers as human medications, certain foods and specific plants. Poole also suggests a convenient method for alerting others that […]

Max Shishkin created a marvelous supercut tribute for CLIQUE featuring scenes from 154 movies and television shows from 2016. via DesignTAXI Related Laughing Squid PostsA Nostalgic Supercut Tribute to Epic Dance Scenes in 1990s Movies‘Screams’, A Supercut Tribute Wes CravenA Supercut Tribute to the Some of the Best T-Shirts Worn in Movies

A TED-Ed lesson by Farnaz Khatibi Jafari explains some of the ways dead bodies are handled by different cultures around the world. The lesson also covers the question of when the world will run out of burial space, which could happen in places like London in the very near future. Since the dawn of humanity, […]

Cynthia Delaney Suwito, a multi-media artist in Singapore, has a true talent for knitting and crocheting as demonstrated in her “Knitting Noodles” exhibition. The project entails a looped video that shows Suwito knitting with instant ramen noodles, a very delicate procedure and a visual aid to remind her audience the importance of being patient and […]

Heather Brooker, host of the series “Motherhood in Hollywood” and her husband tried to surprise their three-year old daughter with a kitten things didn’t turn out as they’d hoped. While the child was opening the box, the spry little gray kitten escaped out the other side, leaving the child with “nothing”. Luckily the kitten didn’t […]

Looper shared a video where they explore moments from the Rogue One trailers that never ended up making it into the final cut of the newly released Star Wars film. They also dug up Easter eggs and hidden references found in Rogue One. Related Laughing Squid Posts46 Shots From Rogue One That Never Actually Made […]

Us the Duo covered the top hits of 2016 in a delightful three-minute medley that includes songs by Sia, The Weeknd, Twenty One Pilots, and more. They are about to embark on their worldwide Just Love Tour in 2017. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Three Minute Recap of Game of Thrones Mapping Out Everything That Happened […]

Disney Parks shared a behind the scenes look at Pandora: The World of AVATAR, a new land based on James Cameron‘s Avatar film coming to Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida during the summer of 2017. Pandora: The World of AVATAR will feature magnificent floating mountains and an […]

A photo posted by Hey Joe Coffee (@heyjoecoffee) on Nov 13, 2015 at 7:14am PST The GoJoe by HeyJoeCoffee, is a very convenient single-serving mug that brews a cup of coffee (from filtered pods) with just the simple touch of a button. Because the GoJoe is powered by batteries, it can be taken along just […]

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill (Dan Bull) and 26th President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt (EpicLLOYD) faced off in a heated episode of Epic Rap Battles of History created by Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD. Related Laughing Squid PostsExplorers Lewis & Clark Face Off Against Excellent Adventurers Bill & Ted in […]

Game of Phones is a party game that rewards players for having the quickest smartphone skills out of their friends. Players are asked to find specific images, contact loved ones, and show off choice apps. The game uses a deck of cards with commands that players have 60 seconds to respond to with the best […]

Filmmaker Michael Tucker of Lessons from the Screenplay created a new video essay that analyzes the way information is revealed within a film and how it affects the perspective and experience of the audience. Using the excellent Ex Machina as an example, Tucker goes on to explain the concept of the “Revelation Sequence” as posited […]

Everyone knows what a claw hammer is, but did you know just how many different types of claw hammers there are? This is just a small sampling of the claw hammers we have on display at the museum! #hammers #clawhammer #collection #museumcrushmonday #didyouknow #tools A photo posted by The Hammer Museum (@the_hammer_museum) on Aug 22, […]

Bean the Chiweenie and his sister Lola calmly slept in front of the fire with their feline buddies in a truly peaceful scene that could have gone on forever but for several hungry tummies. The end is worth the wait! A photo posted by Bean (@beanthechiweenie) on Dec 17, 2016 at 3:45pm PST Related Laughing […]

The D-Vine is a convenient and very clever device designed to serve a single glass of perfectly aerated wine at its ideal temperature. Much like a Keurig coffee machine, the D-Vine uses an inserted individual-serving bottle that employs an RFID chip to communicate with the device. The wines are carefully curated from France and the […]

redditor Lamnethian2112 posted a really interesting photo that shows the crazy colorful dancing light effect resulting from a spinning lit Christmas tree, an open camera shutter and lots of low light. via reddit, PetaPixel Related Laughing Squid PostsLight Warfare, An Action Packed Demo of Light Painting‘This Book Is a Camera’, A Pop-Up Book That Opens […]

A photo posted by Andy Seliverstoff (@andyseliverstoff) on Oct 24, 2016 at 7:47am PDT In his wonderful series “Little Kids and Their Big Dogs“, Russian photographer Andy Seliverstoff has captured the truly heartwarming bond of immense love and trust that exists between a young children and their dogs. Seliverstoff has also written a book of […]

The Giacometti Arm with Balloon Body is a super light 1.2kg 20 meter robot arm built from helium-filled inflatable segments connected by artificial muscles. The arm has a camera mounted at its end, which can be maneuvered for potential use in search and inspection applications. It was developed by the team at the Suzumori Endo […]

In November 2016, an Chinese farmer in Tonggu County came across an unusual sight when he checked in on his herd of goats and saw that they were entertaining a tiny guest. The guest, an orphaned baby monkey, had adopted particular goat as his new mother, clinging tightly to her back as she foraged during […]

In an episode of Today I Found Out, Simon Whistler explains the reasons drive through ATMs still use braille. The primary reason is that they are required by law, despite objections by the American Bankers Association, but there are also a number of situations where a person with visual impairments could be using the machines. […]

Great Big Story, in partnership with the Weather Channel, visited with artist Gavin Munro, the visionary artist who farms furniture by coaxing and teaching willow shoots to grow as such, producing chairs and tables directly from the ground. We patiently and carefully graft shoots together. bending them into the shapes required, and eliminating the need […]

Real Life Lore explores what the British Empire would look like if it were reunited today by comparing the current social and economic situations in the empire’s former colonies to where they were in 1921 at the height of the empire’s reach. The British Empire was the largest Empire to have ever existed in our […]

International publisher Taschen has announced the release of National Geographic Infographics, a stunning pictorial history of the magazines’s pioneering infographics. Along with photography and journalism, the use of infographics has always been one of the three pillars that National Geographic has used throughout its 128-year history to provide fascinating content to its readers. This is […]

Give Back Box is a charity that helps people donate clothes and other household items to Goodwill for free using their online shopping boxes. The service encourages people to help others and also reduces the waste from the boxes themselves. They have partnered with Amazon and other online retailers to encourage even more online shoppers […]

San Francisco creative director Danielle Baskin has created Drone Sweaters, timely and stylish custom-tailored clothing for cold drones during the frigid winter months. To acquire one of her beautiful sweaters, fill out the contact form on the main page of the Drone Sweaters website and set up a time to go to their “studio in […]

Kristian Williams aka KaptainKristian created a beautiful tribute to the iconic rhyming storyteller Dr. Seuss with a skillful tetrameric rhyme of his own. There’s a structure to language we all learn when we’re young a flow to the words that could almost be sung Something most of us learned from the great of Dr. Seuss […]

A photo posted by Gemma Correll (@gemmacorrell) on Dec 8, 2016 at 12:08pm PST Seasons Greetings by Gemma Correll Related Laughing Squid PostsCartoonist Gemma Correll Illustrates Winter Hazards From the Mundane to the Unexpected‘Ghost Fashions’, An Amusing Guide to What the Most Stylish Spirits Will Be WearingBad Girl Scout Cookies

The Backyard Scientist Kevin Kohler tests how styrofoam towers react to a red hot cannon ball and molten copper. The towers were constructed from panels of styrofoam insulation that ignite almost instantly when they come into contact with the heated metals. Related Laughing Squid PostsMelting a Colorful Tower of Crayons With a Red Hot Ball […]

JPCMHD has created a compilation of their picks for the best Japanese commercials released in 2016. Related Laughing Squid PostsSome of the Best Japanese TV Commercials (2015)Student Chefs Prepare an Enormous Sushi Roll for the 2016 Japanese Food Festival in Los AngelesHow the Rebels Saved Christmas, A Cute Duracell Star Wars Commercial Set in a […]

ThinkGeek is featuring an officially licensed Star Wars Wicket Backpack Buddy, a fuzzy backpack for storing your goods and carrying around your favorite little Ewok friend. All we had to do was give it a cracker and shoot a few Imperial Stormtroopers. It turns out that Wicket can sniff out soldiers, make accurate bird calls, […]

Bellevue, Washington designer Dave Nunez of Rabbit Engineering has created cool mini 3D printed models of classic video game consoles, computers, and historic machines. The entire collection of models are available to purchase from his Etsy store. images via Rabbit Engineering via Technabob Related Laughing Squid PostsHow ‘Oldschool’ Computer and Video Game Graphics Worked in […]

The European Space Agency has rendered the Rosetta space probe‘s historic journey around comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in a 3D simulation that highlights important moments in the trip. Rosetta successfully orbited the comet and launched the Philae lander on November 12, 2014, the first human-made object successfully soft-landed on the surface of a comet. The animation begins […]

Filmmakers JCL Aragón and Adrián Gutiérrez of Glass Distortion have created a wonderful video series featuring side-by-side comparisons of movie scenes with their original storyboard drawings. They take a look at scenes from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, The Dark Knight, No Country for Old Men, and a commercial for Chanel No. 5. via […]

LEMMiNO explains some of the potential positive and negative outcomes of humans developing advanced artificial intelligence. Although artificial intelligence is currently being used in a variety of ways, people like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have warned about the unchecked advancement of super-intelligent computers. Related Laughing Squid PostsThe Potential of Emotional Reading Technology Becoming Available […]

Video editor Robert Jones has created a nostalgic supercut tribute to epic dance scenes in movies from the 1990s. The supercut is set to the track “Praise You” by Fatboy Slim. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Supercut Tribute to Some of the Best Dance Scenes in 1980s MoviesA Supercut of 92 Dance Scenes in Movies‘The Chase’, […]

Film editor Vashi Nedomansky has created an interesting video essay that explores 46 shots from Rogue One, shared in the film’s promotional material, that never actually made it into the final version of the movie. Apparently 40% of the film was reshot which leads one to believe that changes in the tone, structure and story […]

For CineFix‘s ongoing Trailer Mix series, New York filmmaker Bobby Burns and Dustin McLean worked together to create a fake movie trailer that reimagines Elf as a disturbing thriller film. Thought your holiday family dinner was a nightmare? Wait until you see your favorite elf in this creepy version of the holiday comedy. At least […]

Host Jimmy Fallon sat down with the comedy duo, Rhett & Link, to play a few rounds of their amusing Good Mythical Morning game “Will It Tea?” on The Tonight Show. The three amigos tried dipping tea bags filled with taco meat, deodorant, goat meat, and ghost peppers into their cups of water and then […]

Jack Black was inserted into Aldo Jones‘s incredibly weird re-edit of the first official trailer for Passengers. Fans of Aldo can help support his future work on Patreon. Here is the original trailer for comparison. Related Laughing Squid PostsAn Incredibly Weird Re-Edit of the Justice League TrailerAn Incredibly Bizarre Re-Edit of the Batman v Superman: […]

George Michael (Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou), the absolutely brilliant singer, songwriter and founding member of the British pop duo Wham! has tragically passed away on Christmas Day 2016, peacefully in his home. He was only 53 years old. His publicist has asked that privacy be granted at this time for Michael’s grieving family. It is with […]