Elderly Blind and Deaf Three-Legged Dog Plays Modified Fetch With His Human on a Rainy Thursday

A really sweet elderly three-legged spaniel named Toby who can no longer see nor hear played a surprisingly lively game of modified fetch with his very | Continue reading


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Russian Mechanic Adds Giant Tank Treads to a Bentley Continental GT Turning It Into a Badass ‘Ultratank’

In August 2018, Russian car vlogger Kosik of AcademeG embarked upon an ambitious project to transform a Bentley Continental GT into a badass "Ultratank" | Continue reading


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Missouri Coffee House Serves an Oddly Tantalizing Ice Cream Split That Uses Pickles In Place of Bananas

The Pine Mountain Country Coffee House in Desoto, Missouri has created a unique dessert known a the "Pickle Split", an oddly tantalizing ice cream dish | Continue reading


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A Fast-Talking Salesman in a Loud Tie Offers a Great Deal on a Variety of Cats in an Amusing Adoption Ad

In 2017, we wrote about a really amusing adoption ad that was presented in the style of a used-car commercial for Furkids Animal Rescue in Atlanta, | Continue reading


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Because of You, An Anti-Bullying Campaign Focusing on Positive Things That Individuals Can Do for Others

Because of You is a wonderful multimedia campaign by the Ad Council that combats the threat of bullying with positive messages to encourage teenagers to | Continue reading


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Ian Curtis Rides a Rollercoaster

Ian Curtis of Joy Division rides a rollercoaster. Speaking of which, here's Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins also riding a rollercoaster. | Continue reading


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Determined Little Dachshund Happily Takes His Horse Buddy For a Nice Walk in the Scottish Countryside

An adorably determined dachshund named Rocco happily took his equine friend Wally the horse for a nice walk along a lane in the beautiful Scottish Border | Continue reading


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The Famous Dancing House of Prague by Frank Gehry

In 1996, Canadian/American architect Frank Gehry (previously) and Czech architect Vlado Milunic were commissioned by Dutch bank Nationale-Netherlanden to | Continue reading


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A 1990 Super Soaker Appears to Restore Itself to Original Condition in Amusing Stop-Motion Timelapse

The craftsman behind Hand Tool Rescue (previously) created a really amusing stop-motion timelapse that looks like a 1990 Larami Super Soaker water gun is | Continue reading


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Craftsman Builds a Miniature Great Pyramid of Giza Out of Wood to Understand Its Structural Engineering

Curious about the Great Pyramids of Giza, Canadian woodworker John Heinz of I Build It decided that he would learn about their remarkable structural | Continue reading


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The Tense Friendship Between Arya Stark and the Hound Reimagined as a 1980s TV Sitcom Spinoff

Filmmaker Lance Krall of Picture It Productions quite clevery reimagined the rather precarious and quite unlikely friendship between Arya Stark (Maisie | Continue reading


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The Magnificent Sound of Several Million Monarch Butterflies Taking Off All at Once

Nature host Phil Torres of The Jungle Diaries captured the absolutely magnificent sound of several million monarch butterflies flapping their wings, ready | Continue reading


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Masked Masses Commence a Tick Tock Countdown to Doomsday in a Teaser Trailer for ‘Watchmen’ on HBO

In a highly enigmatic teaser trailer for the new HBO series Watchmen, the masked masses begin a tick tock countdown to the end of the world. A select | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Beautifully Animated Interpretation of the Chinese Myth of the Immortal White Snake

In the 19th episode of the Ted-Ed series Mythic, tea expert Shunan Teng shares "The Chinese Myth of the Immortal White Snake". This beautiful narration, | Continue reading


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A Meditative Combination of ‘Earthtone’ Paints and Oils That Evoke a Strong Sense of the Oregon Desert

Inspired by the colors of the Oregon high desert, scientist and filmmaker Tyler Hulett (previously) mixed together paint and oil, creating the abstract | Continue reading


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An Amusing Animation Showing What Procrastinators Do When They Put Off What They Should Be Doing

Freelance illustrator Nas Alhusain has created a really amusing and honest animation that reveals what different procrastinators do when they put off that | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Moodlapse, An Interactive Mindfulness App That Combines Blooming Flowers With Binaural Brain Music

Moodlapse is a iOS mindfulness app that can provide calm and comfort to an individual through an interactive, combination of symmetrical kaleidoscopic | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Archie McPhee’s Biggest and Loudest Rubber Chicken

In their never-ending quest to perfect all that is rubber chicken, the folks at Archie McPhee have created the biggest, loudest functioning squawker | Continue reading


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Why Migratory Birds Fly in a Synchronized V Formation

A short but interesting video by NPR explains exactly why migratory birds like the bald ibis, flap their wings in near-perfect synchronicity while flying | Continue reading


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An Oddly Satisfying Series of Drain Clearing Videos

An Australian plumber who goes by the name Drain Addict has created an oddly satisfying series of videos that show, in detail, the intimate process of | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Francis Ford Coppola’s Epic ‘Apocalypse Now’ 40th Anniversary 4K ‘Final Cut’ Slated for August Release

To mark the 40th Anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola's iconic 1979 Vietnam War epic Apocolypse Now, Lionsgate announced that they will be releasing on | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Indian Man Breaks Guinness World Record for Fastest Time Typing 130-Character Phrase With His Nose

In 2017, a man from New Dehli, India named Davinder Singh confidently broke the Guinness World Record for typing a 130 character phrase with his nose. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Creative Commons Launches a Streamlined Search Featuring 300 Million Images and Improved Attribution

Creative Commons, the organization that helps people legally share images and other data online for the common good, has launched a brand new, streamlined | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Baby Monkey Figures Out How to Best Climb a Tall Fig Tree Without Any Help From His Watchful Mother

In an adorable clip from the Smithsonian Channel series Monkey Island, a troop of tufted gray langurs follow the alpha male to a tall fig tree bursting | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Performing Gnossienne No. 1 on Recorder Through a Birdhouse With Help of an 18th Century Hand

Filmmaker Sean Reynard has created and embodied a rather interesting bespectacled, short-banged character he named Quentin Smirhes. As it turns out, | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The Tallest Concert Grand Piano in the World

Great Big Story visited with master piano builder David Klavins at his studio in Vác, Hungary. Klavins, who has worked as a technician, concert tuner and | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Why Train Wheels Require a Rigid Conical Shape

A researcher from the Civil Engineering Department at RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany visually demonstrates scenarios in which different wheels | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Giant Colored Pencil Made Out of Colored Pencils

Woodworker Nick Zammeti cleverly built a giant colored pencil made out of many, many boxes of colored pencils. This very meta idea came to Zammeti while | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Popping a Champagne Cork With a Champagne Flute

While attending a friend's party at the Hotel d’Angleterre in Copenhagen, Denmark, champagne enthusiast Nikolaj Makar quite elegantly removed the cork | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

How the Rock Opera ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Reinterpreted Judas Iscariot as Sympathetic Character

Music essayist Noah LeFevre of Polyphonic (previously) took a look at the classic Andrew Lloyd Weber/Tim Rice collaboration Jesus Christ Superstar. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Ghost Box, A Touch-Controlled Interactive Sound Sculpture Modeled After WWII-era Shortwave Radio

Ghost Box by artist/musician Steve Parker, is a remarkable interactive sound sculpture modeled after a World War II-era shortwave radio and allows | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Signman, A 42 Year Retrospective of Work by San Francisco Underground Artist and Prankster John Law

photo by John Beherens Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland is presenting Signman, a three month long retrospective spaning 42 years of work by legendary San | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Using One Finger on One String to Play Ten Iconic Riffs

Musician Dave Rucci took a wire cutter and snipped off all but one string (G) on his guitar. He then proceeded to play ten different and iconic intro | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The Genetically Modified Paradise, Oddly Misshapen Beings Lurking Near The Little Mermaid of Copenhagen

In 2000 Danish sculptor Bjørn Nørgaard created "The Genetically Modified Paradise", a surreal series of oddly misshapen beings, including "The Genetically | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Krzywy Domek, The Crooked Little House of Sopot, Poland That Sports a Distorted Illusory Front Facade

In 2004, the Polish architecture firm Szotynski & Zaleski built a wonderfully illusory building in Sopot, Poland that doesn't quite look real. The design | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Physicist Brian Cox Reimagines the Wonder of the Big Bang for a Five Part BBC Series About ‘The Planets’

In a trailer for the five-part BBC Earth series entitled The Planets, renowned physicist Brian Cox narrates a beautiful visual reimagination the Big Bang, | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Modified Roomba Robot Vacuum Cleaner That Screams and Curses When It Bumps Into Things

Technology vlogger Michael Reeves quite grudgingly responded to viewer requests to build a Roomba that screams and curses when it bumps into walls and | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Jaunty Acoustic Guitar Cover of the Star Wars Cantina Song With an Adorably Rhythmic Dog on Drums

The very talented musician Acoustic Trench (previously) recorded a jaunty acoustic version of the Figrin D'an and The Modal Node song that was iconically | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

James Taylor and Oscar the Grouch Sing a Duet on a Classic Episode of ‘Sesame Street’

In 1984, the great James Taylor paid a visit to Sesame Street, where he and the curmudgeonly trash dweller Oscar the Grouch performed a duet that told | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Velvet-Voiced Crooner Covers the Panic! At The Disco Song ‘High Hopes’ in True Frank Sinatra Style

Postmodern Jukebox invited the velvet-voiced crooner Spencer Day into the studio to perform the Panic! At The Disco song "High Hopes" in authentic Frank | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Trio of Outdoor Cats Are Taken by Surprise When a Plush Puppy Starts Meowing at Them

The cooperative team of outdoor cats who defended their human's yard from an incoming real dog, were a little less brave when it came to a plush puppy | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

An Amazingly Detailed Millennium Falcon Mince Pie

The very talented Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin (previously) of Pies Are Awesome has created an amazingly detailed mince pie in the distinctive shape and | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Lovestruck Tormund Giantsbane Relentlessly Flirts With Brienne of Tarth in an Amusing Minute Game of Thrones Compilation

In a rather amusing supercut of scenes from Game of Thrones series, a lovestruck Tormund Giantsbane (Kristofer Hivju) lustfully flirts with Brienne of | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca Speaks English to Harrison Ford to Give Him Context For Their Dialog

During the filming of Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, actor Peter Mayhew, in costume as Chewbacca, spoke aloud in English (rather than | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The Game of Thrones Animated Title Sequence Flawlessly Recreated With Oreo Cookies

To promote their limited edition Game of Thrones themed cookie packs, the folks at Oreo created a flawless recreation of the animated title sequence from | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

MC Frontalot Raps About His Fathomless Heartbreak With the World Wide Web in the Song ‘Internet Sucks’

The ever prescient nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot (previously) quite succinctly shares his feelings about the world wide web in the song "Internet Sucks". | Continue reading


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Jedi Meteorologist Gives Forecast For May the Fourth

In celebration Star Wars Day, Jedi meteorologist Grace Legge from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology provided a forceful weather forecast for the region | Continue reading


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Why Mathematicians Are Stockpiling a Specific Chalk

In 2015, the owner of the Japanese company that made Hagoromo chalk decided to shutter his business due to health and other reasons. Once the news was | Continue reading


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