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.
The Odeon Bar

Google Maps

Google does it again with Google Maps. Here’s The Odeon Bar, as mapped by Google. Check out that drop-shadow action and interactive scrolling. This is…

Hi Fructose Magazine

Hi Fructose Magazine

Attaboy and Annie Owens are hard at work creating the premier issue of Hi-Fructose, a quarterly Toysploitation magazine that will debut Spring 2005. Hi Fructose…

Will Franken

Will Franken at The Odeon

Will Franken will be at The Odeon in “Thank You Odeon”, Sunday, January 30th. If you have never seen Will Franken perform before, let us…

Princess Bride: The Play

Princess Bride: The Play

Impossible Productions presents Princess Bride: The Play, just recently extended through February 12th at The Darkroom in San Francisco. What happens when the Most Beautiful…

borg9

borg9

Once word got out about BORG2, it wasn’t long before other “BORG’s” starting appearing… First there was BORG3, a commercialized Burning Man for spectators. Then…

Apple Macintosh

Lost Mac Video

Speaking of milestones, 21 years ago today Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh to the world. Lengendary Mac hacker Scott Knaster has released a previously unseen…

Firefox, Happy 20,000,000!

Firefox 1.0 has just hit the 20,000,000 mark. Still using IE? What better time to switch than now. 20 million downloads can’t be wrong. While…

Photos: Scot Nery’s Crash Course

photo by Scott Beale Here are my photos from Scot Nery’s “Crash Course” show on Friday, January 21st. The theme was “Superhero Business Meeting” and…