Scott Beale
Scott Beale founded Laughing Squid in 1995 in San Francisco and is currently based in New York City. When not running the blog, Scott can be found posting on Bluesky and sharing photos on Instagram.
It Is Pitch Dark by MC Frontalot, A Song About Zork
“It Is Pitch Dark” is the latest music video from nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot. It’s about the classic text adventure computer game Zork. The video…
Robodock 2007, An Art & Technology Festival in Amsterdam
The 10th annual international art and technology festival Robodock takes place at the NDSM dock in Amsterdam next week from September 19th through 22nd. Robodock…
Made From Scrap, A Recycling Workshop Warehouse
Made From Scrap is a new 10,000 square-foot community recycling workshop warehouse that is opening next week in the Bayview area of San Francisco. Made…
The Fart Party Book by Julia Wertz
Julia Wertz, creator of the wonderful comic The Fart Party (see my previous write-up) has a new book of her work that is being published…
GelaSkins iPhone Art Skins
GelaSkins has great series iPhone art skins featuring some amazing artists. They also make art skins for iPods, laptops (both Mac & PC) and RAZR…
War Of The Worlds eComic by Ian Edginton and D’Israeli
Last year Dark Horse published a beautiful 72 page graphic novel version of War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, adapted and abridged by Ian…
Todoist, A Simple Online To-Do List & Task Manager
I’ve been searching for a good online task manager for a while. I checked the various 37signals services, including Ta-Da List, which are all great…
Chicken John Is Looking for a Contact at PayPal
Chicken John is desperately trying to find someone he can talk to who works at PayPal. He just sent this out to his mailing list:…
Phil Frank 1943-2007, Creator of Farley
Phil Frank, the Sausalito cartoonist best known for his comic strips Farley (running 32 years in the SF Chronicle) and “The Elderberries”(written by Joe Troise),…
Coyle & Sharpe, Legendary Early 60’s Street Pranksters
In the early 1960’s the legendary team of Jim Coyle and Mal Sharpe, known as Coyle & Sharpe, would roam the streets of San Francisco…