A Surreal Series of Crocheted Masks Representing How People Portray Themselves Online

Irish performance artist Threadstories has created a somewhat eerie but highly symbolic series of surreal crocheted masks, some of which have a great deal | Continue reading


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A Brilliantly Manic Cover of Tom Waits’ Wonderfully Frenzied Anthem ‘Going Out West’

Nick Parton, a British musician and self-described "Raindog", performed a brilliantly manic cover of the guitar-heavy, wonderfully frenzied Tom Waits | Continue reading


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Regional Terms For Carbonated Beverages

xkcd has created a comprehensive Carbonated Beverage Language Map to help reduce confusion with regional refreshment terminology. There's one person in | Continue reading


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Recommendo, A Handy Book of Helpful Recommended Favorite Things Compiled From a Weekly Email List

Author Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of Wired magazine and former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review, in partnership with Boing Boing | Continue reading


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Engineers Feverishly Work to Build a Robotic Dog for an Overbearing Boss in the Animated Short ‘A Model Dog’

In the animated short "A Model Dog" by illustrator Joel Plosz, a team of two engineers work feverishly behind the scenes to build a robotic canine in | Continue reading


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The Oddly Paradoxical History of the Iconic DeLorean

In a fascinating Vox video essay, editor Phil Edwards takes a look at the oddly paradoxical history of the incredibly distinctive DMC DeLorean. The car | Continue reading


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How Change Becomes Inevitable for a Selfish Phil Connors as He Lives ‘Groundhog Day’ Over and Over

Filmmaker Michael Tucker of the video essay series Lessons From a Screenplay takes a look at the "Inescapable Premise" of the 1993 film Groundhog Day. The | Continue reading


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Founder of Lexicon Branding Shares How They Named Such Iconic Products as Swiffer, Fios and BlackBerry

Meghan McDonough of Quartz contacted David Placek, founder of the legendary Lexicon Branding in Sausalito, California, to speak about how the company came | Continue reading


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The Missing Crucial Ingredient That Prevents White Chocolate From Being Considered a True Chocolate

ACS Reactions takes a look at the specific ingredients and the chemistry behind creating the cocoa butter based confection white chocolate. The narrator | Continue reading


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How 50 Different People From 50 Different States In the United States Refer to a Fizzy Soft Drink (Soda vs Pop)

In a quenching episode of the Condé Nast Traveler series Culturally Speaking, 50 people from 50 different states within the USA shared their regional name | Continue reading


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Eye of the Tiger

This tiger is a true survivor. via Miss Cellania | Continue reading


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A Chatty Green Parrot Gleefully Performs Graceful Somersaults Inside the Palm of a Human’s Hand

A big, beautiful chatty green parrot in Bien Hoa, Dong Nai, Vietnam very gleefully performed graceful somersaults inside the palm of a human's hand. The | Continue reading


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Transformers Themed Band The Cybertronic Spree Performs Cover of Led Zeppelin’s ‘Immigrant Song’

The rock star robots of The Cybertronic Spree, a Transformers themed tribute band that embraces everything about video games, performed a really righteous | Continue reading


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Creative Hair Artist Creates Powerful and Fun Sculptures Out of the Dreadlocks on Her Own Head

Fashion designer and hair artist and self-described "Ivorian Goddess" Laetitia Ky creates sculptures out of the beautiful dreadlocks on her own head. Many | Continue reading


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Iconic Celebrities Pose With Their Younger Selves in a Wonderful Time Traveling Photoshop Series

Dutch photoshopper Ard Gelinck has created a wonderful series of images depicting celebrities from music, film and television as they appear in recent | Continue reading


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How the Iconic ‘Friends’ Ross and Rachel Relationship Offered Hope to Believe in True Love Once Again

In a heartwarming episode of their series deconstructing the individual personalities of the characters on the now-classic sitcom series Friends, hosts | Continue reading


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Bubbly Blaster, An Amusing Device That Turns an Upside Down Bottle of Champagne Into a Spray Gun

The aptly named Bubbly Blaster is a wonderfully amusing device that turns an upside down 750L bottle of champagne into a very tasty spray from a spray | Continue reading


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How the 2008 Financial Crisis and 2010 Volcano Eruption Led to More People Visiting Iceland Than Ever

Travel vlogger Johnny Harris and his wife travel vlogger Iz Harris visited the breathtaking sites of Iceland for 72 hours. While travelling the beautiful | Continue reading


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Ross From Friends Face-Swapped With Nicolas Cage Just Makes Him Look Even More Like Ross

spaghetticondom911 points out that if Friends character Ross Geller is face-swapped with Nicolas Cage, it just makes him look even more like Ross. Here's | Continue reading


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Guinness Clear, A Cleverly Subtle Message From the Legendary Irish Brewery to Drink in Moderation

In a very clever and subtle message about drinking in moderation during events like the 2019 Guinness Six Nations Rugby Championships, the legendary Irish | Continue reading


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What We Do in the Shadows, A Vampire Comedy Series on FX Based Upon the Beloved Cult Film

In 2015 Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi released What We Do in the Shadows, a wonderfully dark humored pseudo-documentary about vampires. Over the past | Continue reading


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Purl, A Disney Pixar Animated Short About an Earnest Pink Ball of Yarn Working at a Male Dominated Startup

In an amusing Disney/Pixar animated short by SparkShorts, an earnest bright pink ball of yarn named Purl does her best to be successful at a male | Continue reading


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A Better Way to Board an Airplane

A seemingly frustrated CGP Grey explains why the current method of boarding airplanes in the United States is not working and proposes a better, faster | Continue reading


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How Pink Floyd Used Odd Metering, Organic Loops and Travelling Bass Line to Create the Iconic Song ‘Money’

In a follow-up to his analysis of the Pink Floyd song "Comfortably Numb", the fast talking doodler 12Tone takes on "Money", an equally interesting song by | Continue reading


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Beautiful Footage of an Iridescent Jellyfish-Like Deep Sea Creature Nicknamed the ‘Psychedelic Medusa

While exploring the waters off Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, the NOAA scientists aboard the Okeanos Explorer caught sight of a glittery | Continue reading


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The Immensely Strong Hafthór Björnsson Carries Strangers Around in a Front Facing Baby Carrier

The immensely strong and wonderfully kind Hafthór “Thor” Björnsson aka The Mountain from Game of Thrones quite humorously offered to carry strangers | Continue reading


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Freediver Petr Kapoun Swims Directly Under the Ice of a Frozen Lake Milada in the Czech Republic

Freediver Petr Kapoun quite bravely swam directly under the ice of a frozen Lake Milada in the Liberac region of the Czech Republic. Kapun tackled this | Continue reading


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An Intuitive Paper Poster Printed With Smart Ink That Connects to a Tiny Computer to Update the Weather

Oliver Woods and the team Typified, have created an intuitive paper poster that is printed with "smart ink". This ink connects and responds to a tiny | Continue reading


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Working For a Day at a Japanese Snow Monkey Park

Video producer John Daub of the series Only in Japan spent a day working at a Snow Monkey Park, specifically the Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden on | Continue reading


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François Clemmons Recalls the Day Mister Rogers Invited Him to Soak His Feet in a Kiddie Pool Together

In a neighborly interview with StoryCorps, performer François Clemmons, who played Officer Clemmons on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, recalls with great | Continue reading


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Hypnotizing Slow Motion Footage of Magnetite Sand Gathering Around a Powerful Magnet

The quite aptly named Magnetic Games (previously) shows how a magnetic field works with an attractive demonstration of collected magnetite sand as it | Continue reading


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How High Atmospheric Pressure Over a Siberian Town Makes It Earth’s Coldest Permanently Inhabited Place

Sam from Half as Interesting, who is a big fan of winter sports, explains the conditions that make Oymyakon, Siberia the coldest permanently inhabited | Continue reading


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Bad Lip Reading of the NFL 2018-2019 Football Season

Just in time for Super Bowl LIII, Bad Lip Reading is back with a hilarious bad lip reading of football games that took place during the 2018-2019 NFL | Continue reading


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Star Wars Sound Effects Replicated on a Guitar

Musician Davidlap, who previously soloed with his hands on fire and performed an almost literal "walking bassline" while wearing toe socks, hilariously | Continue reading


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Rapper Murs Breaks Down Why He Believes That the Beastie Boys is the Greatest Hip Hop Group of All Time

In a call back explainer video on HipHopDX, rapper MURS breaks down exactly why he considers The Beastie Boys to be the greatest hip hop group of all | Continue reading


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The Band Behind the Album That Made Everyone Believe That the Beatles Had Gotten Back Together

In 1976, a really beautiful psychedelic album called 3:47 EST seemingly appeared out of nowhere, and carried such a familiar sound that it lead a number | Continue reading


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A Dinosaur Invades a Wooden Mannequin’s Home in a Stop Motion Short That Pays Tribute to ‘Jurassic Park’

In the short stop-motion animated short film "Indomation" by Mason Drumm, a wooden mannequin comes home, orders some pizza, settles in on the sofa and | Continue reading


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Hypnotic Footage of Icy Methane Bubbles Floating Up to the Surface of a Frozen Lake in Alberta, Canada

German photographer Lennart Pagel captured beautifully hypnotic footage of icy methane bubbles just under the surface of a frozen lake in Alberta, Canada. | Continue reading


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Sea of 168,000 Used Plastic Straws Is Parted in Unique Art Installation With a Strong Environmental Message

Photographer and artist Benjamin Von Wong (previously) worked with Zero Waste Saigon and Starbucks Vietnam to gather 168,000 used plastic straw for his | Continue reading


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How Forbidden Popcorn Became an Unexpected Financial Windfall That Kept Movie Theaters Alive

An informative episode of Cheddar Explains talks about the dichotomous history of popcorn at the movie theaters. When silent films came out, the theater | Continue reading


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Graceful Robot Learns to Play a Mean Game of Jenga

Alberto Rodriguez, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT along with a team from the MIT MCube Lab developed a very precisely moving robot | Continue reading


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Young Gamers Share How the Xbox Adaptive Controller Helps Them Play Their Best in Microsoft Super Bowl Ad

In a really heartwarming Super Bowl ad for the Microsoft Xbox Adaptive Controller, a group of inspiring kids with underdeveloped or missing limbs talk | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Talented Yarn Artist Crochets, Knits and Embroiders a Life-Size Sculpture of a Local Woman Walking Her Dog

Yarn artist Liisa Hietanen has embarked on a really ambitious project of knitting and crocheting sculptures of her fellow Kyläläiset (villagers) in | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Talented Yarn Artist Crochets, Knits and Embroiders a Life Size Sculpture of a Woman Walking With Her Dog

Yarn artist Liisa Hietanen has embarked on a really ambitious project of knitting and crocheting sculptures of her fellow Kyläläiset (villagers) in | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Why The Joker’s Origin Story Doesn’t Need to Be Told

In an insightful video essay about the upcoming film Joker starring Joaquin Phoenix, host Jared Bauer of Wisecrack opines on the need for The Joker, a | Continue reading


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Vintage Celebrity Portraits With Droopy Eyes and Frowning Mouths Representing Social Media Fatigue

Japanese artist Teiji Hayama who lives and works in Switzerland, creates original oil paintings that are inspired by vintage celebrity photos. In these | Continue reading


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Stunning Drone Footage That Reveals the Luminous Colors of Utah’s Great Salt Lake From Overhead

Justin McFarland, a licensed drone operator in Utah has captured absolutely stunning footage that reveals the luminous colors of the Great Salt Lake from | Continue reading


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A Look at the Extensive Career of Actor Warwick Davis

In his new series for The Back Focus, host Brandon Hardesty (previously) takes a look at Warwick Davis, an actor who was born with spondyloepiphyseal | Continue reading


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