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Freelance editor and reviewer Mr. Sunday Movies has created a new video where he points out a lot of the secret Easter eggs hidden in Marvel-based television shows and films that hint at characters yet to be seen on the big screen. He brings to light a couple of the Punisher references found in the […]

A nimble but eager german shepherd puppy gracefully rolls over, plays dead and covers his face when his human pretends to shoot him with a harmless finger gun. via Nothing To Do With Arbroath

Legacy Effects recently shared a behind-the-scenes look at how they built the animatronic Apatosaurus for Jurassic World. After taking viewers through the step-by-step process of designing, building, and finishing the Apatosaurus, the video also features a dramatic screen test that showcases the full range of motion and emotional impact the finished dinosaur has. via GeekTyrant

Designer Soleil Zumbrunn du Midi has created an updated set of glitchy playing cards after last year’s initial glitchy set of playing cards. Legends Playing Card Co. will print this particular update, which is seeking funds via a Kickstarter campaign. New product features of GLITCH 2.0: New tuck art. More vibrant, more colorfull, more glitches! […]

Paris Paris, France-based artist Nicolas Amiard of the BETC ad agency has digitally inserted images of wrecked Star Wars spaceships into actual photos of major cities around the world. A destroyed Imperial Star Destroyer ends its journey in Paris, the legendary Millennium Falcon gets stuck in New York City, and more. Amiard’s entire series of […]

In a recent episode of the Mashable series The Watercooler, author Chuck Palahniuk reads Fight Club for Kids, an illustrated children’s book version of his popular novel Fight Club. While the book is intended to be a sanitized version of the brutally violent story, Palahniuk manages to get a little overly excited as he reads. But a club without […]

McDonald’s recently tested new “McBike” drive-through bicycle packaging at locations in Copenhagen, Denmark and Medellín, Columbia. The packaging folds to securely hang a sandwich, fries, and a drink from the handlebars of the bicycle. To create the McBike packaging, McDonald’s worked with Argentinian ad agency Tribal Buenos Aires. via Ads of the World

Copenhagen, Denmark-based Nintendo fan and computer programmer Kjetil Nordin, who is originally from Norway, spent six years crocheting an amazingly detailed blanket of the Grass Land map from Super Mario Bros. 3. According to NRK, he put over 800 hours into the impressive project. More photos of Nordin’s geeky blanket are available to view on […]

Grand Theft Auto V player Blacksmoke Billy manages to flip a semi-trailer truck through the air before hitching it back together on the landing in a short video from May. According to Billy, the only change to the vanilla game required here was a custom handling mod using OpenIV to make the truck go faster. […]

Laughing Squid contributing writer Glen Tickle cracks jokes about his unfortunate last name, being a father, and substitute teaching in a short video clip of one of his stand-up routines. Glen’s currently in the running for a Cozi TV comedy search, and interested parties can vote for him on Cozi TV’s website.

In a recent video posted by Internet Chess Club, Grandmaster Max Dlugy plays 15 consecutive games of “banter blitz” speed chess. In blitz chess, each player has only three minutes on the clock, and the “banter” aspect comes from Dlugy commentating on his own play and that of his opponent live while he’s playing. Dlugy seems to […]

In the eighth and most recent episode of “Shelf Life“, The American Museum of Natural History recounts the journey that took a well-preserved frozen Architeuthis Dux around the world – from Wellington, New Zealand to New York City. Curator Neil Landman explains how nerve-wracking the process was. It was supposed to make a connection from […]

An intense video posted by ABC News Australia captures the sport of FPV (first-person-view) drone racing in which competitors race custom-built multi-rotor drones while wearing special goggles that give them a drone’s-eye view of the action. This particular race happened in an abandoned warehouse in Melbourne, Australia. FPV drone racing is considered a growing sport in […]

Photographer Stephen McMennamy has created “Combophotos“, a wonderful series of seamlessly combined images that contrast greatly in both size and scale. For example, a skier jumps across an ice cream cone, a cigarette belches smoke from a factory, a water tower becomes a golf tee and a child uses a ladder to climb up to […]

Mother by Sense is a sensor-based home automation and tracking system that monitors a series of “cookie” sensors for a variety of uses. The cookies can be placed on objects like pill bottles to be sure medications are being taken on time, under a pillow to help track sleep habits, and they also measure temperature. […]

A trailer for the upcoming video game Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain by developer Kojima Productions and acclaimed creator Hideo Kojima explores equivalence, war, and espionage in a fictional look at the past. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is scheduled to release on September 1, 2015 and is available to pre-order […]

In the latest installment of the KQED series Bay Curious, reporter Jessica Plazcek and photographer Adam Grossberg take a trip to the top of Sutro Tower, the infamous San Francisco antenna tower and accidental landmark. Built in 1973, the tower has had a storied history with the city. The decision was final; a tower would […]

A sleeping cat awoke to find herself clinging tightly onto the wing of a microlight craft in mid-flight. Luckily the two people aboard noticed the stranded feline and were able to land safely without any harm coming to any living being. Pilot Romain Jantot commented he wasn’t sure how the cat got onto the plane, […]

Star Trek: The Next Generation character Captain Jean-Luc Picard, as portrayed by Sir Patrick Stewart, espouses some profound wisdom set to an electric beat by Eclectic Method. Picard shares his insights about the Universe as well as reminds people that he is the captain–all with a danceable beat. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

A fluffy snow-loving but persistent Maine Coon/Norwegian Forest Cat named Nala repeatedly acts as a physical barrier between her human Alexander and his video game controller, thus refusing to let him play. via Daily Picks and Flicks

In a recent interview with the New York Daily News, Breaking Bad series creator Vince Gilligan confirmed that Bryan Cranston would reprise his role of anti-hero Walter White in a future episode of the Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul, though not in the upcoming second season. Gilligan refused to say exactly when the iconic […]

In honor of Cephalopod Week 2015, Science Friday spoke with marine expert Dr. Chrissy Hubbard, a Senior Researcher at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, who explained why and how certain species of bipedal octopi are able to use their tentacles to run away from predators. When octopuses jet to escape a predator there’s so […]

F/X Networks has released the first promotional trailer for the second season of the hit series Fargo. While the trailer doesn’t give away much about the plot, it does hint at brewing trouble in the frozen American heartland. The second season of Fargo is set to premiere in September 2015. We’re not out of the […]

Colby and Bleu, two golden retriever puppies who are also known as “Cheese Patrol“, are captured running for their food around the same corner over and over again during the course of approximately nine months. The use of a fixed camera for this time-lapse footage shows how quickly the pups are growing up. Then Now […]

In a recent video by Funny or Die, Coma the Doof Warrior from Mad Max: Fury Road gives a series of guitar tips for properly rocking out while strapped to a moving truck in a post-apocalyptic desert wasteland.

I spotted this hilarious LeBrawny James illustration by Hanksy today as I was walking up Orchard Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. We’ve posted many of Hanksy’s prolific puns in the past. photo by Scott Beale

Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland Google Sheep View is an amusing project by Ding Ren and Michael Karabinos that collects photos of sheep from Google Street View. The project also accepts submissions. We started this project because we enjoy the “sheep view” when riding trains in the Netherlands. Bonsall Moor, England Delphi Valley, Ireland images […]

“OCP gave me the skills to wreck this. I can’t help it if I’m fresh. It’s my prime directive.” RoboCop and the Terminator face off in the latest episode of Epic Rap Battles of History. RoboCop, played by Nice Peter, and the T-800 Terminator, played by EpicLloyd, take turns spouting joke-filled verses at each other that […]

AMC has released “Nick’s Escape“, a new promotional trailer for Fear the Walking Dead the new companion series to the very popular The Walking Dead, in which a terrified teen (presumably Nick) desperately hangs on to his pants as frantically flees down the street from an unseen enemy. Set in Los Angeles, the series follows […]

“Jaws in 3 Minutes” is a 40th-anniversary tribute to the Steven Spielberg classic Jaws. The tribute was edited by Robert Jones, who compressed the film’s original run time of 124 minutes to just three minutes while managing to keep in most of the film’s highlights and memorable moments. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

An actual hedgehog navigates a “high-budget replica” of a Sonic the Hedgehog stage in a recent episode of the Mashable series The Watercooler.

An unsuspecting Corgi named Turbo was taken by complete surprise when the rock that he was quietly contemplating suddenly turned into a tortoise and started slowly moving away from him. According to his human, “Turbo …had no idea the rock could move.” via reddit

President Barack Obama appeared as a guest on the June 22, 2015 episode of the WTF With Marc Maron podcast to discuss issues of race, health care, and comedy in a fascinating hour-long interview. Host Marc Maron opened the show by discussing some of the Secret Service preparations that went into making the episode happen, including […]

The reveal trailer for the upcoming video game Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 by developer PopCap Games puts the plants on the offensive after the zombies have taken over. Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 is slated for a 2016 release on the Xbox One and currently available to pre-order on the game’s website. […]

Researchers at Columbia University have developed a new technology capable of generating energy from evaporating water. The technology uses a material made from bacterial spores that expand or contract based on humidity, and that motion can be harnessed to generate electricity, or even power a small machine to move across a table. Peter Fratzl, director […]

In a recent episode of MinuteEarth, host Emily Elert takes a critical look at the often-cited claim that humans share 99% of our DNA with chimps. It turns out the claim isn’t based on a simple one-to-one comparison, and a lot of factors go into weighing one species’ DNA against another’s.

It is with three heavy yet hopeful squid hearts that I bid you farewell, dearest squid readers. My whirlwind time as contributing editor at Laughing Squid has been a wonderful experience thanks to Scott Beale, tentacles past and present, and your fascinating feedback. Until our paths cross again (and after that too), please be kind. […]

A short and sweet trailer offers a look at Mass Effect: Andromeda, the next video game in the popular Mass Effect series by developer BioWare. The trailer, which was revealed at E3 2015, showcases the new protagonist romping about in the Andromeda galaxy–thus the name. While we aren’t ready to go into too many details […]

A recent episode of Vsauce explains the science of Jurassic World with the help of Chris Pratt and paleontologist Jack Horner, who served as a technical advisor on the entire Jurassic Park series. Host Michael Stevens talks to Pratt and Horner about the film’s portrayal of dinosaurs, how real scientists could bring back dinosaur-like creatures similar to those in […]

Sketch comedy group FND Films posted an unboxing video of a man opening a Walgreen’s Nice! brand chicken sandwich to parody some common tropes seen in unboxing videos. The man critiques the sandwich itself, but also its packaging as he meticulously opens the box and examines the contents. via reddit

In the latest episode of Because Science, host Kyle Hill posits whether or not the famous sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who can actually be created in real life while introducing the basics of acoustic levitation and rotational momentum as the primary forces necessary in doing so.

Photographer Marc Simon Frei has captured some striking images of tiny lightning storms sparked by a Tesla coil. The coil produces high-voltage, but low-current electricity that produces charged plasma filaments that resemble lightning. photos via Marc Simon Frei via The Awesomer

Bartesian is an easily programmable countertop machine that automatically mixes capsules of of prepared ingredients with the desired spirit to create any one of six specialized cocktails to a customizable strength. Bartesian makes delicious, authentic cocktails at the push of a button. You don’t need multiple ingredients and you don’t need complex recipes. The machine’s […]

Former Iceland basketball player and strongman competitor Hafthor “Thor” Bjornsson, who is known for playing the part of Gregor Clegane (a.k.a. “The Mountain”) on Game of Thrones, recently won the Iceland’s Strongest Man contest for the fifth year in a row. According to Bjornsson, he is the only person to complete this task. The six-foot-nine […]

Sony revealed Horizon: Zero Dawn by developer Guerrilla Games, known for the Killzone video game franchise, at their recent E3 2015 press event. The game, which is scheduled for a 2016 release on the PlayStation 4, features a female protagonist named Aloy that uses a bow and other gear to hunt robotic monsters of varying […]

“Paint” is a Sony Action Cam film short created by director Greg Hackett of Spindle Productions that features colorful footage of a BMX bike creating art with strategically placed paint capsules and cameras. Paint capsules attached to the wheels of a BMX bike feed paint onto a dark space while a rider turns and spins […]

For their latest interview, SoundWorks Collection spoke with re-recording mixer and sound editor Pete Horner as well as supervising sound editor and designer Al Nelson of Skywalker Sound about their brilliant work on the sci-fi adventure film Jurassic World.

In “Didga Dreams Big“, the amazingly talented cat pretends to be asleep and dreaming about all of the amazing tricks that she wishes she could do, only to wake up in the arms of her human Robert only to find that she was able to do them all along. Didga dreams that she does over […]

Ukranian yarn artist Anna Mo has knitted a line of beautifully crafted super-chunky blankets, sweaters and scarves that are customizable in any one of 70 colors using giant needles and giant spools of yarn, which are also for sale on her Etsy site. images via Ohhio via Ignant, Beautiful Decay