Lori Dorn
Lori is a Laughing Squid Contributing Editor based in New York City who has been writing blog posts for over a decade. She also enjoys making jewelry, playing guitar, taking photos and mixing craft cocktails.
‘The House of Picards’, The Captain of ‘Star Trek: TNG’ Becomes as Ruthless as Frank Underwood in ‘House of Cards’
Diplomacy is so overrated. “The House of Picards” uses very clever editing by doubleg1701 to portray the normally genial Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek:…
An Amazingly Detailed Interactive Map That Plots 12 Epic Road Trips Featured in American Literature
(interactive version) Writers Richard Kreitner and Steven Melendez of Atlas Obscura have compiled an amazingly detailed interactive map. The pair used Google Maps to painstakingly…
Tiny Owl Pretends To Be a Rubber Ducky While Bobbing Around in a Warm Bath
A tiny little owl named Trude bobs around in a warm bath in a bathroom sink, pretending to be just like the rubber ducky that…
Adorable Handmade Food-Themed Corner Bookmarks Made From Felt and Thread
An Italian designer who goes by the name Inspirational Gecko has created an adorable line of corner bookmarks that were made to look like sections…
Ingenious Shower Liner With Inflatable Spikes That Force a Person Out of the Shower After 4 Minutes
Concerned about the amount of water being wasted by long showers, British designer Elisabeth Buecher created “Spiky”, a shower liner with inflatable spikes that ingeniously…
tiii.me, An Interactive Site That Instantly Calculates How Much Time Was Spent Watching a Specific Television Show
Designer Alex Cican has created tiii.me, an wonderfully interactive site that instantly calculates how much time a person has spent watching specific television shows. The…
Italian Sculptor Masterfully Carves a Detailed Dragon Head Out of a Watermelon
Italian sculptor Valeriano Fatica demonstrates via a time-lapse video how to masterfully carve a detailed dragon head out of a plain old watermelon. Fatica has…
A Mesmerizing Kinetic Display That Captures and Recreates Hashtagged Instagram Photos With Thread
Brooklyn-based creative hardware prototyping agency BREAKFAST partnered with clothing company Forever 21 to create the F21 Thread Screen, a mesmerizing visual kinetic display that automatically…
Confused Deer Emits a Blood Curdling Scream at Two Men Who Can’t Stop Giggling
While visiting Nara, Japan, filmmaker Gavin Shapiro and composer Jason Doornick encountered a stray deer. Neither man expected the petite animal to emit such odd…
Clever Dog Figures Out How to Rescue Her Stranded Tennis Ball Without Having to Get Her Fur Wet
A clever dog named Rosie, desperate to retrieve her beloved tennis ball from the pool, finally figures out an ingenious method for accomplishing her goal…