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…
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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…
A Hilarious Compilation of Bad Lip Reading From the NFL 2017-2018 Football Season
Bad Lip Reading is back a hilarious compilation of bad lip reading at NFL games that took place during the 2017-2018 season.
Pick Two Sets of These Animals to Defend You, Because the Rest of Them Are Coming To Kill You
There are 50 eagles, 10 crocodiles, 3 bears, 7 bulls, 1 hunter, 15 wolves, 10,000 rats, 5 gorillas, and 4 lions. The challenge is to select two sets of these animals to protect you from the rest. Choose wisely… via Vice
Laughing Squid Video Archive Digitization Project
Just about half way through the 48 hours of HI8 video I shot related to @burningman 1996. A post shared by Scott Beale (@scottbeale) on Jan 30, 2018 at 12:35pm PST Way back in the early days of Laughing Squid, before I launched this blog, I used to shoot a lot of video, documenting events…