You may not realize this, but Laughing Squid is also a web hosting company that focuses on WordPress hosting. The revenue from our hosting services helps support this blog. We recently announced that we are now offering Managed WordPress, a hosting service highly optimized for WordPress. We also offer standard hosting, including WordPress hosting, on…
Scott Beale
A Pizza Box Designed For Eating Pizza in Bed
Boston Pizza and john st. have joined forces to create the world’s first pizza box designed for eating pizza in bed. This limited edition box was created in honor of Father’s Day and Boston Pizza is hosting a #BPinBed contest between June 6 and June 11 for a chance to win one. ?CONTEST ALERT? Reply…
An Amazing Running Flip Over Four People
I just came across this video I shot back in 2013 of a street performer doing an amazing running flip over four people in City Hall Park in lower Manhattan.
The Impossible Burger, A 100% Plant-Based Burger
A post shared by Scott Beale (@scottbeale) on Jun 1, 2018 at 2:39pm PDT Impossible Foods just sent us a few sample patties of their amazing plant-based meat. We’ve had the Impossible Burger many times before, including in the form of a White Castle Slider and taco, but this is the first time we’ll have…
Announcing the New Laughing Squid Store
We are excited to announce that we have just launched our new Laughing Squid Store, which features flash sales on variety of unique and interesting products at a significant discount. Here’s more info. Unlike our previous store, this new store also includes actual Laughing Squid Merch, such as our t-shirt and 14 oz mug, as…
Managed WordPress Hosting Is Now Available As a New Service at Laughing Squid Hosting
We are excited to announce that we have partnered with Pressable to offer Managed WordPress, a hosting service highly optimized for WordPress that features increased performance and scalability over our traditional Cloud Sites hosting. With Managed WordPress, disk space and bandwidth are included, so you are only charged for your monthly pageviews. It also includes…
Backhoe Rescues Survival Research Labs’ Running Machine at Their Gallery Show in New York City
During the closing of the Survival Research Labs gallery show at Marlborough Contemporary in New York city, one of their robots, the Running Machine stopped functioning. A local construction crew happened to be on site and used their backhoe to rescue the machine, bringing it back inside the gallery. It was a very “only in…
Making the Right Decision in Choosing a Backpack
xkcd looks at how for some choosing the right backpack is often the most important decision in their life. "This one is perfect in every way, except that for some reason it's woven from a tungsten mesh, so it weighs 85 pounds and I'll need to carry it around on a hand cart." "That seems…