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Today I Found Out host Simon Whistler explains some possible explanations for why James Bond preferred his martinis shaken not stirred despite it arguably making the drink worse. A properly made martini is mostly dry gin with a bit of dry vermouth and ice (Epicurious recommends 5 parts gin to 1 part vermouth). All three […]

Great Big Story shares the history of the contentious font Comic Sans and its creator Vincent Connare. Although Comic Sans is frowned on by many modern designers, Connare considers the font as, “the best thing I have ever done.” You remember Comic Sans. You know, that irreverent, off-kilter font that came pre-programmed on 90s versions […]

20th Century Fox has released the second trailer for Logan, the upcoming Marvel superhero film based on the character Wolverine and Mark Millar‘s Old Man Logan comic book series. The new trailer finds a group of enemies coming for Laura Kinney (X-23) and an aged Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) fighting the threat by her side and […]

Users can add beauty effects like retouching, virtual makeup, and stylized filters to create glamorous selfies with the Meitu app. People are using the app to create exaggerated images of themselves, celebrities, and even fictional characters and sharing them on social media. The app is available now in the iTunes App Store and the Google […]

A photo posted by Michael Pederson (@miguelmarquezoutside) on Jan 15, 2017 at 11:06pm PST Artist Michael Pederson, whose work we previously wrote about, is back and giving more public places in the city of Sydney, Australia a new meaning with his funny typographical street art signs. Michael’s entire collection of typographical street art is available […]

Video editor Dylan Trost has created an epic trailer for the entire Star Wars saga featuring music from The Force Awakens trailer. Thanks Chip Beale! Related Laughing Squid PostsEpic Modern Trailer for the Original Star Wars TrilogyAmazing Flashback Edit of the ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Trailer Featuring Han Solo’s Dark Side & Jedi MemoriesA […]

On a mathematical episode of the AWE Me show DIY Prop Shop, host Odin Abbott demonstrated how to build your own version of Marceline‘s iconic axe bass guitar and weapon hybrid from Adventure Time. Related Laughing Squid PostsNew Axe Cop Trailer Features Nick Offerman as the Voice of Axe CopHow to Build a Working DIY […]

Fashion designer, mixed artist, and cosplay model Kay Pike is back with another awesome time lapse video that features Kayleen painting a Star Wars C-3PO costume on her own body. Pike captured the footage while she was streaming live on Twitch. Fans of Kay can help support her future work on Patreon.

A photo posted by Victor Castanera (@victorcastanera) on Jan 4, 2017 at 5:56am PST Spanish designer Victor Castanero has created for his client Oblure, the Balance Table Lamp, an elegant yet playful light with dark and light orbs in opposition to each other, yet positioned in such an impossible way so as to make them […]

Busted pic.twitter.com/8LVVBME3Bt — Ali (@AliWyland) August 26, 2016 In August 2016, a silly golden retriever named Jack was surreptitiously digging a hole in the backyard without a care in the world. That is, until he heard the sound of the back door and the voice of his loving human Ali coming to see what he […]

Italian creative house MID Studio has created the “Fauna Lamp“, a fun and functional light source with a flexible rope design that can easily be formed into different shapes in a safe and convenient manner. The lamp is available in different sizes/colors and can be purchased through CrowdyHouse or the designboom store. It is made […]

Ardu McDuino is an Arduino-based robot by John “XenonJohn” Dingley that uses 3D-printed fingers to play a bagpipe chanter. The fingers are an upgrade from the previous versions of Ardu McDuino that used simpler mechanisms to control the chanter. Dingley outlined the steps of his build in a post on Instructables. Bagpipe chanter playing robot. […]

In October 2016, firefighters in Asheville, North Carolina responded to an early morning house fire. While they were putting out the fire, they found a tiny 4-month old puppy named Hex underneath a pile of clothes. The puppy had sustained injuries to her eyes, ears, skin and lungs due to smoke inhalation. Luckily, the emergency […]

Wendover Productions explains the linguistic challenges in making first contact with aliens. The video compares the problem to trying to communicate with animals using the specific example of trying to tell a lion that you are taking an Uber to buy coffee at Starbucks. Related Laughing Squid Posts‘Absolutely Anything’ Trailer Showcases What Someone With Absolute […]

“How To Summon a Demon” by Jim Benton. A version of this comic with a thought bubble is on the cover of his new book Man, I Hate Cursive: Cartoons for People and Advanced Bears. via Veronica Belmont Related Laughing Squid PostsHow to Make an Electronic Demon CostumeGene Simmons Demonstrates the Right Way to Apply […]

Inspired by the enormous popularity of the cast in-character reunion during the 2016 election, the NBC network has officially announced that the forward-thinking, groundbreaking series Will & Grace is officially returning to television for a limited 10-episode run during the 2017/18 season. The series originally ran from 1998-2006, for eight seasons and played a big […]

Binging With Babish host Andrew Rea demonstrates how to cook “Kevin’s Famous Chili” from The Office. In the show, the character Kevin Malone makes the chili for his coworkers but bungles the delivery. Kevin Malone is the tragically comic overweight buffoon (and World Series of Poker champion?) we all know and love from The Office. […]

While awaiting the announcement of the fourth season of Last Week Tonight on HBO, host John Oliver found himself instead perched behind the Iron Throne on the set of Game of Thrones. He then found himself on the set of Silicon Valley where actor Kumail Nanjian (Dinesh) overtly mocked his show. In further search of his promo, Oliver ran […]

ThinkGeek is featuring a Gaming Dice Soap Set that consists of 3 hollowed out and individually wrapped d20, d10, and d8 shaped soaps with a Chessex Gemini die of the same type inside. The fragrant gaming dice soap set is sure to bring the battle axe down on any nasty odor. Gaming is a good […]

For CineFix‘s ongoing Trailer Mix series, Benjamin Martin and Dustin McLean created a fun mashup movie trailer that combines footage from The Little Rascals with audio from Furious 7. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Mashup Movie Trailer Mixing Footage From The Little Rascals With Audio From Furious 7A Mashup Movie Trailer Mixing Footage From The Walking […]

Madrid film editor Jorge Luengo Ruiz has created a fantastic supercut video of some of the most beautiful scenes from animated Disney films. Jorge features gorgeous scenes from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Aladdin, Moana, and more. Related Laughing Squid PostsThe Walt Disney Film Archives, Disney’s Early Years Captured In a Gorgeous Color Photo […]

The Nerdwriter (Evan Puschak) dissects a joke by Louis C.K. about playing Monopoly with his daughters to highlight how well the comedian uses language to create humor. Puschak points out subtle word choices and timing decisions and explains how C.K. uses them to heighten his material. Related Laughing Squid PostsHow Louis C.K. Effectively Uses Non-Verbal […]

Educator Eleanor Nelsen and director Eoin Duffy teamed up for a TED-Ed lesson on the classic ethical dilemma known as “The Trolley Problem.” In the hypothetical situation, a person is asked if they would sacrifice one person’s life to save five, but the problem gets more complicated with slight variations. It’s a test of how […]

Austrian composer Peter Ablinger transposed a child’s voice reading the Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court onto an amazing MIDI-controlled piano that interpreted and spoke the words aloud in a fairly understandable voice. Ablinger created this project for the World Venice Forum in 2009. (translated) I break down this phonography, meaning a recording of […]

Jen Brea, a brave woman who became ill with myalgic encephalomyelitis, a neurological disease that’s more commonly known as “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”, recounted her long, frustrating struggle to get herself properly diagnosed in a powerful TED Talk. Her quest for answers was an uphill struggle in that her doctor’s did not understand her profound symptoms, […]

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Fred Berenson and Alex Hague, the separate creators of such games as Emoji Dick and Monikers, put their heads together and come up with “Pitch Deck“, a brilliantly hilarious card game that fully embraces the frustrating inanity of the startup funding process from both sides of the table. Like Shark Tank for absurdists, Pitch Deck […]

Artist Jason Freeny has created an awesome series of anatomical sculptures that portray popular Looney Tunes characters. Freeny‘s Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird, Taz, Marvin the Martian, and Daffy Duck sculptures are available to purchase from Mighty Jaxx and Collect and Display. images via Mighty Jaxx and Collect and Display via Toy People News, Technabob Related […]

Lasse Korsgaard and Andreas Refsgaard from Støj, a creative studio that makes use of coding for its projects, have made “An algorithm watching a movie trailer” which as its name implies, is a computer algorithm that watches and analyzes a movie trailer. The first example Korsgaard and Refsgaard have used is the trailer for Martin […]

German slingshot armorer Joerg Sprave, owner of The Slingshot Channel, tackled his dream project by building a fully automatic crossbow, “using a rack and pinion mechanism,” that fires arrows like there is no tomorrow. Related Laughing Squid PostsGatling Slingshot Fires Eight Steel Balls In Half a SecondGerman Armorer Builds a Full Auto Coke Bottle Gatling […]

Los Angeles artist Michael Maher Jr. has created an amazing mashup poster that places the cast of Stranger Things in a Star Wars galaxy far, far away. image via Michael Maher Jr. via ComingSoon.net, Nerd Approved Related Laughing Squid PostsMovie Poster Mashup of Star Wars: Episode VII & Little Miss SunshineEmpire Peaks, Sculptural Mashups of […]

CrowbCat used a Grand Theft Auto IV mod, made by JL MODS HD, that turns the main character into Mario. CrowbCat then created a fantastic video that places Mario in the chaotic world that we live in, just like in Nintendo Switch‘s upcoming Super Mario Odyssey video game. Mario gets a little too real as […]

After a confusing pregnancy test, a young couple learns they are going to have a dog as a practice baby. The CollegeHumor sketch stars Dan Hodapp as the doctor and Christine Bullen and Mike Trapp as the happy couple. Don’t forget: this will still be a destructive constantly shitting nightmare. Related Laughing Squid PostsSneaky Husband […]

In “Everything Ends“, the extremely talented Georgian video editor and Doctor Who fan David Garuchava of The Garo Studios has created a powerful supercut of various iterations of the Timelord as he strikes a very delicate balance within himself. Understanding that all that ends, begins again, as is repeatedly demonstrated in his very self. Everything […]

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Award-winning designer Li Zanwen and has created the Heng Balance Lamp, a truly unique light source that both calming and magical. The light is framed out of wood and its switch consists of two floating magnets that meet in the middle to provide the necessary power to provide light. HENG lamp has a switch structure […]

Great Big Story visited with Alyson Moore, Chris Moriana and Mary Jo Lang, all of whom work for the Sound Department at Warner Bros in Burbank, California. Foley artists Moore and Moriana explain the many number of ways they can form common sounds (such as walking in the snow) through very creative means. Sound mixer […]

Tom Scott recently visited the Bremen Drop Tower at the University of Bremen in Germany, a 100-meter tall vacuum chamber that lets scientists test zero-gravity experiments on Earth as an alternative to sending experiments to the International Space Station or zero gravity plane flights.

A photo posted by Sinbad The Cat (@sinbad_cosplaycat) on Jan 7, 2017 at 11:03am PST In late December 2016, a utilities worker in Chicago came across an extremely neglected Persian cat named Sinbad whose horribly matted fur was covered in garbage and waste and living in a dirty basement. The worker contacted The Anti-Cruelty Society […]

A sweet and gentle Irish Wolfhound named Keon (“courageous warrior”), who lives with his family in the Flemish town of Westerlo, Belgium has broken the previous Guinness World Record for “the Longest tail on a dog“, setting the bar a little higher for the next dog to challenge his title. Before achieving this record, Keon […]

The frustrated proprietor of Luke’s Grocery & Snack Bar in Toronto who goes by the name Quilterrday took to reddit to seek advice about surreptitious little squirrels that like to steal candy from the bottom shelf of the display rack near the door. Quilterrday and family have tried to catch the tiny thieves, without luck, […]

Allstars Sports Bar in Bristol, United Kingdom set up an incredible Rube Goldberg style trick shot that spanned two flights of stairs, multiple billiards table, and the length of the bar.

JoyBlend took the powder from 200,000 sparklers and combined them to create a massive explosion and fireball. The combined powder weighed about 100kg and went up in a matter of seconds when lit. In 2016 the channel built a tower from 100,000 sparklers that burned brightly in a similar fashion. Related Laughing Squid Posts10,000 Sparklers […]

Musicians Scott Bradlee (piano), Adam Kubota (bass), and Mike Cottone (trumpet) of the pop music cover band Postmodern Jukebox performed amazing jazz variations of “Hedwig’s Theme” from the Harry Potter film series. Their magical track is available to purchase from iTunes. Here is the original version of the song for comparison. A photo posted by […]

YouTuber Pasdidée captured hilarious footage of their feisty kittens acting out scenes from movies like Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Titanic, Psycho, and The Lion King. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsThe Lion King Remade Using Cute Kittens and Crayon Colored PropsFeisty Kittens Escape Onto the Set of Jimmy Carr’s ‘8 Out of 10 […]

TrainGuy 659, whose work we wrote about last year, built a new massive LEGO train set, mounted a GoPro camera on the locomotive, and recorded its epic journey through his home and into the garden outside. TrainGuy 659 also shared a video featuring his train set fails from 2016. music by TheFatRat – “Monody“ Related […]