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An ominous teaser trailer for the third and final season of the HBO series The Leftovers, shows a startled group of people gazing upward to watch a very deliberate message being written in the sky. Look up. .@TheLeftoversHBO returns for its third and final season Sunday, April 16 on @HBO. More: https://t.co/JTHt4NuCu2 https://t.co/UwfK4Juh1B — HBO […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched a campaign to encrypt the web and encourage website owners and users to make the internet more secure by adopting the HTTPS protocol instead of HTTP. Sandwich Video produced the campaign video which features writer Baratunde Thurston explaining the difference in the protocols and why HTTPS is more secure. […]

In keeping with the popular beauty timelapse trend, Condé Nast Travel has provided a visually chronological history of the past 100 years of Flight Attendant Uniforms. Each decade was modeled by Sonja Wajih and Brooke Fleming, whose hair, makeup and costumes were styled in correlation with the researched uniform trends of the time. Watch the […]

The Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, Illinois officially announced an adorable addition to their family. In November 2016, a giant anteater named Tulum gave birth to a tiny female pup who rides, almost hidden in plain sight, upon her mother’s furry back. This birth is an important one, as the giant anteater is considered a vulnerable […]

Great Scott! Ryan Tellez of The Warp Zone performed an amusing recap rap of the entire Back to the Future film trilogy. The catchy, yet informative, rap was written by Ryan, Brian Fisher, and David Odom. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Catchy Rap That Recaps Christopher Nolan’s Entire Dark Knight TrilogyMisty Mountains Rap, A Musical Middle-Earth […]

Mike Myers and host Jimmy Fallon dressed in their sporty clothing and competed in an energetic USA vs. Canada “Dice Dance-Off” on an amusing episode of The Tonight Show. The two comedians took turns tossing a six-sided die, featuring hilarious random dances moves, that they had to make up on the spot. Myers also sat […]

To test potential injury risk, researchers at Virginia Tech are repeatedly flying drones into the face of a crash test dummy and studying the impacts. The tests are fun to watch, but they also provide valuable data that the Federal Aviation Administration can use when developing regulations for autonomous flight. Along with the crash dummy […]

Mr Sunday Movies has released an interesting video where he speculates what the meaning is behind the new title for Star Wars: Episode VII, which was revealed to be The Last Jedi, and who might actually be the last Jedi (singular or plural) in the upcoming film. Star Wars: The Last Jedi is scheduled to […]

Blind film critic and YouTube creator Tommy Edison tries to identify 3D printed versions of objects. Using his sense of touch, Edison tries to correctly guess that he is holding tiny versions of a giraffe, the Empire State Building, the space shuttle, and the White House. Edison fan Scott Howie sent in the miniatures and […]

The Associated Press has released footage of Mark Hamill positively reacting to the news that the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII film will be titled The Last Jedi. Hamill likes the title’s samurai vibe, as well as it being straight forward and minimal. Star Wars: The Last Jedi is scheduled to land in theaters on […]

Game developer and programmer Sean (a.k.a. “voidqk“) has created Super Trump Run, a Donald Trump video game parody of Super Mario Run. The object of the game is to keep your head above water, collect money, and avoid the press. Thanks Shelby DeNike! Related Laughing Squid PostsMario Warfare, New Live-Action Military Mario Brothers Web SeriesMario […]

Fret Zeppelin is a unique guitar learning system that uses full spectrum LED lights embedded in an unobtrusive fret add-on directing the player’s fingers to the correct positioning. An accompanying app to enhance the experience is being developed for Android and iOS as well. The system can be used to learn notes, chords, scales and […]

Vsauce host Michael Stevens and his Brain Candy Live partner Adam Savage built a near perfect brachistochrone track to demonstrate that a straight line is not always the fastest way to travel. Related Laughing Squid PostsVsauce Explores the Speed of DarkWhat’s The Brightest Thing In the Universe? by VsauceHow Many Things Are There? by Vsauce

A photo posted by Shorty and Kodi (@shortyandkodi) on Jan 23, 2017 at 6:01am PST I’m Not a Cat, I’m An Alternative Dog by Shorty and Kodi Related Laughing Squid PostsI’m Climbing Up The Christmas Tree Neow, A Song About Cats ‘Helping’ With Holiday DecorationsHow to Do Yoga With Your CatsHow to Exercise With Your […]

In the animated video “How To Be Warm“, the highly insightful School of Life explains that the difference between warm and cool personalities boils down to a differing view of human nature. While the cooler personality is assumed to be more formal and proper, the warmer personality seems to be more casual and aware of […]

British jeweler Nahrena Kohli has created a line of wonderfully modern sterling silver “Ear Climbers” that truly give the illusion that the person wearing them has more piercings than they actually do. The Ear Climbers come in four styles: triangle, square, circle and heart an are available through the Otis Jaxon Etsy store. This modern […]

#Breaking A truck driver has lost his marbles… Literally, 38,000 pounds of them on I-465 SB at the 41mm No ????, ???? for ???????? pic.twitter.com/XWHa6Wk8VE — Sgt. John Perrine (@ISPIndianapolis) January 21, 2017 A truck driver lost 38,000lbs of their marbles after an accident on Interstate 465 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Sgt. John Perrine of the […]

The Long Now Foundation, the brilliant minds behind the Rosetta Project, a language archive inspired by the Rosetta Stone, has created the Rosetta Wearable Disk. While this pendant-sized disk is much smaller than the first edition, it contains much of the same valuable information. A limited, numbered edition Wearable Rosetta Disk is currently available in […]

Billy Eichner and Stephen Colbert took to the streets of Manhattan to ask people about living in a “New York bubble” in a clip from Billy on the Street. Just a few days into Trump’s America, Billy hits the street with Emmy winner Stephen Colbert to ask New Yorkers what they’d like to say to […]

Four-year-old Claire Ryan sings a beautiful duet of “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” from the movie Toy Story with her father Dave Crosby. In 2016, the duo released a studio version of the song, but wanted to do a live version as well. Claire Ryan has also had YouTube hits with versions of other […]

In an adventurous episode of Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler tells the story of how Stephen Hillenburg‘s zany animated television series, SpongeBob SquarePants, made it to air on Nickelodeon. As of 2014, the SpongeBob SquarePants brand has generated in excess of $13 billion since the pilot episode was released about a decade and […]

Doctor Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist and author of such best-selling works as Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Tales how those with afflictions find way to create a new normal within a community of their own, using the H.G. Wells story “The Country of the Blind” to […]

A photo posted by Paul Fuentes (@paulfuentes_design) on Dec 7, 2016 at 11:59am PST Mexico City photographer and graphic designer Paul Fuentes has created a wonderful collection of colorful and surreal pop art mashups featuring everyday objects, food, and animals. More of Paul’s stunning artwork is available to view on Instagram, Facebook, and his portfolio […]

Seoul, South Korea toymaker Chogy has created a fantastic set of Star Wars action figures that reimagine C-3PO as his stylish “23BLOCK” character Simon, who is dressed from head to toe in gold, and R2-D2 as Simon’s skateboard. A photo posted by CHOGY(??) (@chogy23) on Jan 4, 2017 at 5:37pm PST A photo posted by […]

In appreciation of their current fans and to introduce new people to their music, the absolutely sublime band They Might Be Giants is offering a free download of their “First Album Live“, which contains tracks recorded in 2013 from all over the world. The album is available through their site and was also uploaded to […]

In the Netflix documentary series, Abstract: The Art of Design, eight different artists talk about their creative inspiration, their drive and how their original creations have changed the world around them. The artists spotlighted in the series are graphic designer Paula Scher, illustrator Christoph Niemann, photographer Platon, Nike shoe designer Tinker Hatfield, automotive designer Ralph […]

CineFix released a mischievous new episode of 8-Bit Cinema where they retell Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as an old-school 8-bit animated video game. This animated episode was created by Norwood Cheek and Dilara Mundy. Choose to play as your favorite member of the Rebel Alliance and embark on a daring mission to steal […]

A funny tabby named Minnie is a truly great communicator who always responds vocally and on cue whenever her human asks her if she’s hungry. Minnie also adds in a few adorable body movements as if to illustrate her agreement. Every time we ask if she’s hungry… she answers! Minnie is also a firm believer […]

The American Chemical Society series Reactions explores what a cup of coffee can teach people about entropy and the nature of the universe. The chemistry of the universe is, in a way, in your morning cup of coffee — from the evolution of caffeine as a defensive chemical weapon in plants to the swirling eddies […]

In a clip from the PBS version of the BBC Series “Spy in the Wild“, an animatronic sea otter captured the rather ingenious ways in which fellow lutrinae utilize their adorable bellies to ferry their young through the water and as a hard surface upon which to crack open shells with rocks. Spy in the […]

In “The Oval Office” editor Brandon Smith perfectly combines clips of the new Donald Trump administration with the theme song from The Office to recreate the opening of the series. For comparison, here is the original opening for the show. Related Laughing Squid PostsEclectic Method Remix of Clinton and Trump Debating to Hip-Hop Version of […]

Eclectic Method has created a robotic remix using only sounds from Michael Bay‘s ongoing Transformers movie series. Skrillex did some of the sound design on the last Transformers movie so the track is kinda dubstep-y. Related Laughing Squid PostsAn R-Rated Remix of the Deadpool Movie by Eclectic MethodScott Pilgrim vs. the World Remix by Eclectic […]

Conan O’Brien sent Triumph the Insult Comic Dog to cover Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington, DC. Triumph met with some Trump supporters to talk about policy, make jokes, and praise Betty White. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog poops all over the new administration and its supporters. Related Laughing Squid PostsTriumph the Insult Comic Dog Returns […]

Dallas, Texas impressionist and musician Brian Hull took a trip to Disneyland in Anaheim, California and did incredible impressions of numerous characters from the park while getting his photo taken with them. Fans of Brian can help support his future work on Patreon. A video posted by Brian Hull (@brianhullsvoice) on Jan 20, 2017 at […]

Paramount Pictures released a video promoting the upcoming film, Rings, that features the cursed young lady Samara Morgan coming to life, climbing out of a television set, and terrifying real-life shoppers. Rings is scheduled to creep into theaters on February 3rd, 2017. Related Laughing Squid PostsHeavy Sea, A Startling Short Film About an Orange Life […]

Looper has released a video where they share some of the most insane movie special effects that were surprisingly created without CGI. they feature the truck flipping scene from The Dark Knight, the blood-vomiting bed scene in Nightmare on Elm Street, and more. From the mass destruction of Metropolis in Man of Steel to the […]

Red Bull has released an awesome video on Facebook that features POV footage of an extreme mountain biker jumping through portals and into all sorts of different race tracks. Related Laughing Squid PostsPOV Footage of a Hot Wheels Car Racing on a Track Through a Neighborhood and UnderwaterMountain Biker Geoff Gulevich’s Insane Downhill Canyon Run […]

In a fascinating demonstration, an unknown person drew a stick figure on a dining room table with a non-soluble marker. The person then poured a cup of water over the figure and after a few second the figure suddenly began moving as if it were dancing. Related Laughing Squid PostsAn Overview of the ‘Lost’ Finale […]

In the spirit of diplomacy, the Dutch talk show Zondag Met Lubach, host Arjen Lubach wanted to introduce the 45th President of the United States to his beloved Netherlands through a hilarious parody voiced in English by American ex-pat Greg Shapiro and in a manner that the President would truly understand. The whole world was […]

In 2016, a Namibian truck driver discovered a baby aardvark leaning against one of the tires of his vehicle. After looking around for the aardvark’s mother, the driver decided to leave the tiny, hairless baby in the capable hands of Dr. Erika de Jager of ZURI Orphanage in Tsumeb, Namibia. Unsure what to do, Dr. […]

In 2012, we wrote about The Dorothy Collective‘s very clever “Song Map”, a detailed poster in which all road and location names were taken from song titles. They’ve since updated and incorporated this same idea to the entire world in a classic mid-century style. An imaginary world map where the continents, countries, cities, oceans, rivers […]

Tom Scott visits the thousand-year-old Jelling stones in Denmark to explain how the long dead Danish king Harald Bluetooth came to be memorialized in modern phone technology in an episode of his series Things You Might Not Know. The Jelling Stones, thousand-year-old Viking runestones, sit in the town of Jelling in Denmark. They tell the […]

A digital head is weirdly manipulated in the Adult Swim animation “Face Lift” by Steve Smith and Jerry Paper. The face goes through a number of variously unsettling transformations all set to music.

In a heartwarming clip from the PBS version of the BBC Series “Spy in the Wild“, a spy bushbaby captured the gentle and caring relationship between an older wild chimp and the tiny genet kitten whom the primate adopted as his own. When a curious and larger alpha chimp handled the kitten roughly, the older […]

Chef and filmmaker Andrew Rea demonstrates how to cook the “not so terrible” strudel from Inglorious Basterds on his series Binging With Babish. The recipe involves creating a thin, delicate dough that is gently rolled up with a floured tablecloth. Hans Landa is the sherlock-pipe-smokin’, famous-actress-chokin’, Brad-Pitt-pokin’ SS detective we all love to hate. Sure […]

UK production house Mainframe North has created the very amusing “For Approval“, an amusing experimental animation that imagines unlikely features from common objects within different scenarios. This short film was made completely in-house, where they laughingly referred to themselves as their own client. This was an experimental film put together simply as an opportunity to […]

Useless Duck Company CEO Mike demonstrates their latest product, the Useless Salad Machine, a 3D-printed machine that tosses, mixes, and warms salads in the company’s usual impractical style. If you run into any issues while tossing your salad please contact customer support.

Hong Kong designer and cat lover Yan Law has created the “Dim Dim Bubble Bowl“, a hanging acrylic bowl made especially for cats to get comfortable and for humans to be able to see the squishy adorableness of their feline at rest. Using the wisdom of the saying “if it fits, I sits”, the chair […]

WatchMojo.com shares 10 great hidden easter eggs and references found in Marvel‘s epic Deadpool movie. 2016’s Deadpool was a huge hit, and the movie was packed with easter eggs and references to everything from classic movies to modern superhero movies and the comics that inspire them. From all the Wolverine references to Bob’s cameo and […]

A fish becomes the master of its own destiny inside of a robotic fish tank that it controls. The speed and direction of the robot are determined by the position of the fish relative to the middle of its tank, so it changes as the fish swims around in its tank. The robot was built […]