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ThinkGeek is currently featuring a functioning Fallout 4 Pip-Boy replica that is able to pair up with Bluetooth phones and tablets. The deluxe Pip-Boy, which comes with a “RobCo Industries stand that doubles as a charging base and speaker,” is currently available to pre-order and expected to ship in November 2016. Help Laughing Squid grow […]

Microsoft is acquiring LinkedIn in an all-cash deal valued at $26.2 billion. Here’s LinkedIn’s announcement. LinkedIn will retain its distinct brand, culture and independence. Jeff Weiner will remain CEO of LinkedIn, reporting to Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. Reid Hoffman, chairman of the board, co-founder and controlling shareholder of LinkedIn, and Weiner both fully support […]

For the 2016 Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) Awards Show on June 9, New York City creative house Method Design created an incredible short reel, which featured dynamic avatars of all shapes, sizes and textures gleefully dancing their little hearts out. Each dancing being playfully represented one of the sponsors of the night’s event. […]

Vox video producer Christophe Haubursin recently sat down to explain time travel in Game of Thrones and how the show’s interpretation of a time paradox compares to other films and television shows. Based on what the past few episodes have shown us, it looks like Bran can indeed influence the past, but only in ways […]

Walt Disney Animation Studios has released the first trailer for Moana, their upcoming animated film about a courageous teenager named Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) who embarks on a daring journey with once demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) to rescue her people. Moana, directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, is currently scheduled to sail into theaters on […]

View post on imgur.com redditor i124qnds came across a really sad looking bear. Cheer up buddy! Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

An orchid mantis uses its own form of Kung Fu to defends itself against an aggressive jumping spider in a Life Story segment on BBC Two narrated by David Attenborough. via reddit Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

My kid can out sit-and-stare your kid. A photo posted by Fowl Language Comics (@fowllanguagecomics) on Jun 1, 2016 at 7:36am PDT Passionate About Something by Brian Gordon on Fowl Language Comics (support on Patreon) Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

Personal Commemorative Stamps by John Atkinson on Wrong Hands Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

Sunday Free style. A photo posted by Ayako Kurokawa (@burr0w) on Apr 24, 2016 at 6:53pm PDT New York City pastry sculptor Ayako Kurokawa created a wonderful Cactus Macaron. via Lustik, Neatorama Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

Graph Vader (maybe my favourite joke I've ever made) #darthvader #starwars A photo posted by Joe Stone (@joestone) on Apr 29, 2016 at 4:32am PDT Joe Stone has published a series of Darth Vader puns, his follow-up to Drewbacca and Drawntroopers. Scarf Vader #starwars #darthvader A photo posted by Joe Stone (@joestone) on Apr 25, […]

EKM CO shows how dubstep was discovered in a funny remix of the video “Trumpet From A Tube”. Misclick made another remix of the same video that shows how psychedelic trance was discovered. via Marc Canter Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? by John McNamee on Pie Comic (support on Patreon) Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

When Robert Borba, a rancher and self-describe cowboy in Eagle Point, Oregon, drove down to his local Walmart to buy some dog food, he heard a woman screaming that a thief had just stolen her bike. Acting quickly, Borba retrieved his horse from a nearby trailer, began circling his trusty lasso and caught the would-be […]

The fascination cats have with boxes goes back a long way… image source unkown Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

Media artist Scott Thrift has created Today, a unique numberless 24-hour timepiece that moves along a face of soothing colors at half the speed of other clocks. The slowed down pace encourages people to feel as if they have more time in the day. A 24-hour clock that simplifies the day into a perfect balance […]

Which One Is Worse? is a web series hosted by comedians Darryl Charles and James Hesky that weighs two bad movies against each other to decide which one is worse. Charles and Hesky look at the negative aspects of each film individually before deciding on the ultimate loser. So far they’ve put Catwoman against Elektra, Nightmare on Elm Street 2 against Jason X, […]

French metal artist JL Gonzal crafted an absolutely incredible steampunk-styled prosthetic arm with a working tattoo gun affixed on the end. Gonzal set about working on this amazing project after receiving the unique request from JC Sheitan Tenet, a tattoo artist in Lyon who lost the lower part of his right arm over 20 years […]

Puddles Pity Party and Postmodern Jukebox performed a sad clown version of “Stressed Out” by Twenty One Pilots. The single is available now through iTunes, and for comparison, here is the original version of the song. Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

“Sunspring” is a short science fiction film written by an artificial neural network named Jetson. The film stars Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley) and was a collaboration between filmmaker Oscar Sharp and technologist Ross Goodwin. The machine was fed hundreds of science fiction screenplays to learn from before creating its own script. Besides the screenplay, Jetson […]

In the latest episode of asapSCIENCE, hosts Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown explain via whiteboard animation explaining what schizophrenia is, the physiological causes of the disease and how medication is not effective when nearly half of the patient population refuses to take it. Schizophrenia is a disease of the nervous system affecting approximately one percent […]

Listen, Gary’s not a hero. Gary got captured by goblins. Heroes don't get captured by goblins. #dnd #dungeonmaster pic.twitter.com/QiA7Bjk59H — DungeonsAndDonalds (@DungeonsDonald) May 15, 2016 Dungeons and Donalds is a parody Twitter account that puts Donald Trump in the role of a Dungeons & Dragons dungeon master. The account combines photos of Trump with D&D […]

In a clip for the series Science of Stupid on National Geographic, former BBC Top Gear host Richard Hammond examines how and why cats can jump as high and as accurately as they do, provided conditions are right. To drive his point home, Hammond compares the graceful leap of a feline with examples of clumsy […]

Monster Factory is a funny web series, created by brothers Justin and Griffin McElroy for Polygon, that follows the two hosts as they use character creators to build deranged beings in popular video games and then let them loose for crazy adventures. Justin and Griffin provide hilarious voice overs while running for their lives in […]

An adorably studious Shiba Inu named Chiko sat upright in a chair, just like his humans, as he intensely watched videos on his human’s laptop. Chiko has also been known to binge on Netflix until the wee hours of the morning. Chiko also knows to sit up straight and mind his manners while enjoying a […]

A photo posted by Dan Bannino (@danbannino) on Jun 6, 2016 at 2:25am PDT In his new series “Chic Chicks“, photographer Dan Bannino worked with gorgeous Paduan chickens, fluffed up their oversized head crests like the big hair of the 1980s and shot them in highly stylized but flattering light. The effect is somewhat reminiscent […]

Matthew Santoro made a video where he shares all sorts of interesting little known facts about Snapchat in five minutes. Santoro talks about the group of college friends who created the popular app, how much Mark Zuckerberg was willing to pay for it, Snapchat’s current worth, and more.

In a new Ted Ed Lesson, educator Ewandro Magalhaes and animator Andrew Foerster explain the process in which language interpreters are trained to conduct simultaneous translation, what happens within the human brain as the process is refined and what happened when Viktor Sukhodrev, a Russian-to-English translator accidentally miscommunicated what Nikita Khrushchev actually intended to say. […]

CNET senior editor Brian Tong sat down with Pixar character supervisor Jeremie Talbot to get a behind-the-scenes look at how the studio created Hank the Octopus for Finding Dory, their most complicated character yet. One particularly complex scene took two years to create as animators and engineers worked out the best ways to replicate the […]

In his latest video essay, director Julian Palmer of The Discarded Image takes a look at the manner in which slow motion is employed in films in order to pinpoint details, express emotion, convey mood, call out particular action and create suspense, each depending on the director’s intent. The world moves at a rapid pace. […]

In a recent interview on The Rich Eisen Show, comedian JB Smoove says that he regularly checks in with fellow comedian Larry David, and that David told him he is considering coming back to Curb Your Enthusiasm. The show ran for eight seasons between 2000 and 2011, and a ninth season has remained a possibility since that […]

The German supermarket chain Netto has created a really funny and clever video ad that features the most famous cats of the internet shopping at one of their grocery stores. Such famous felines included are “Cucumber Cats“, “Keyboard Cat” and “Surprised Kitty“, just to name a few. (translated) Cats and Internet, which just fits together […]

A Target employee filmed himself announcing that the store will be closing in a variety of voices and accents. via reddit, Neatorama

Las Vegas video editor Robert Jones has created a supercut tribute to some of the sexiest moments in film. The supercut is appropriately set to INXS‘ song “Devil Inside.”

South Tyrolian artist Johannes Stötter, who is internationally known for his incredible bodypainting illusions, has created a gorgeous howling wolf out of three strategically placed female models who moved together gracefully to move the wolf’s head during vocalization . In January 2016, Stötter created a vibrantly colored angelfish using only one painted model.

The Red Medusa animation studio has created Games of Throlls, a series of animated shorts that imagine Game of Thrones as popular video games. They mix HBO‘s hit television series together with games like Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Mortal Kombat, Doom, and more. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

So-called “thought leader” Pat Kelly from This Is That gave an ultimately meaningless TED-style talk about how to present a TED-style talk on thought leadership. Self proclaimed “thought leader,” Pat Kelly gives his talk on “thought leadership” at the annual This Is That Talks in Whistler, B.C. In the seminar, Kelly covers: How to talk […]

Incredibly talented glass harpist Petr Spatina takes to the streets to perform a beautiful rendition of his song “Fragile Sounds” on a table filled with 33 wine glasses, filled and tuned with water. Here is Petr‘s original version of his “Fragile Sounds” track, which is available to purchase from iTunes. via reddit

Artist Aisha Madu has created “Bodily Dysfunctions,” an animated short visualizing some of the many bizarre ways that our bodies can fail us at any given moment. via Sploid

President Barack Obama returned to The Tonight Show to slow jam the news and write some thank you notes with host Jimmy Fallon. While on the show, Obama also shared his thoughts on both the Democratic and Republican primaries.

Redditor ZaganOstia recently tried to use Snapchat‘s face swap feature in a local store to swap his face for the Hulk‘s. ZaganOstia’s face was instead swapped with his fingers, which turned out to be comedy gold. via reddit

A brilliant comic by Joe Stone that accurately illustrates the anxiety of waiting for a text response.

Los Angeles editor, director, and father Paul Hollingsworth and his Digital Wizards Studios crew spent over 2,000 hours and $100,000 worth of LEGO bricks to create an epic stop-motion animated remake of the original Ghostbusters film from 1984. Fun facts: 1) Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is played by my 10yr old daughter- Hailee 2) Features […]

20th Century Fox has released a promo for the upcoming film, Independence Day: Resurgence, that features Jeff Goldblum debunking the War of 1996 conspiracy theory with doppelgänger scientist David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum). Independence Day: Resurgence is set to invade theaters on June 24th, 2016.

On a recent appearance on Conan, Dana Carvey shared his hilarious impressions of US presidential candidates Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.

Burger Fiction helps you learn the English alphabet by way of 85 different movies.

CinemaSins presents their take on everything that is wrong with The Revenant. The Revenant is a pretty kick-ass movie. It won some awards, deservedly. But being a movie… still has sins.

London design house Osborne Ross has created an amusing series of postage stamps for the UK’s Royal Mail that feature different animals whose limbs fold over the edge of the envelope, ensuring that the creatures hang onto every single word. A set of six animal stamps designed to appeal to children and adults alike. The […]

In her latest visual essay “Fargo : A VideoEssay“, talented French filmmaker Candice Drouet takes a look at the now-classic 1996 Coen Brothers film, remarking on how the multiple layers that were built from the nuances of location, including weather, values and accents, created a cockeyed commentary about the frozen American midwest. What else is […]

A photo posted by i am cheeto. a cat. (@princesscheeto) on Jun 2, 2016 at 5:01pm PDT Princess Cheeto is a sweet rescued tuxedo cat who lives in New York City with her photographer human Hugo Martinez and is the subject of many wonderfully creative photos. Cheeto is also a model for such brands as […]