Scott Beale

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.
Phoneswarm

Phoneswarm

The fine folks at Cardhouse have recently launched Phoneswarm, a experimental project where each week a different pay phone in a city is selected. People…

Surveillance Camera Billboard Prank

Surveillance Camera Billboard Prank

Ted Rheingold has the scoop on an awesome surveillance camera billboard prank at the corner of 5th and Howard Streets in San Francisco. But this…

Flickr

The Flickrization of Yahoo

Erick Schonfeld wrote a great article for the current issue of Business 2.0 on how Yahoo’s purchase of Flickr has been causing a shift in…

Satan's Christmas Comedy Cabaret

Satan’s Christmas Comedy Cabaret

Madman Shannon O’Hare is back again, reprising his role of Satan, this time in Satan’s Christmas Comedy Cabaret which takes place December 26th at 12…

Chicken John

Chicken John’s Christmas Show

Chicken John’s Christmas Show takes place tomorrow night, Saturday, December 24th (Christmas Eve), at 12 Galaxies in San Francisco. The show starts at 10pm and…

Anchor Brewing

Anchor Brewery Tour Photos

Photos from a December 2005 tour of Anchor Brewing brewery in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco.
Automattic

Automattic Launches

Yesterday WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg announced the launch of Automattic, an umbrella company for all of the various WordPress projects, including: the WordPress open source…

Digg GETV

Digg, User Submitted Tech Stories

digg is a highly addictive website where users submit tech stories and other users “digg” the stories they like. If a story receives enough “diggs”,…

Zombie Claus 2005

Zombie Claus Report

Zombie Claus 2005 organizer Mark Maynard posted a follow-up report with some great photos. A few of the non-Zombies traveling along with us reported snippets…

PARK(ing)

Rebar: PARK(ing)

San Francisco art collective Rebar decided to take the concept of a parking spot to the next level. On November 16th they installed an actual…