Laughing Squid
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‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Hilariously Shares the Plot for His Unrealized Action Hero Film ‘Accordion Repo Man’
In a rather energetic interview with IMDb for their Unmade series, the five-time Grammy Award winner “Weird Al” Yankovic shared his idea for an unrealized…
Adorable Animals Cleverly Created Out of Food
View this post on Instagram A post shared by HELGA ? Household Surrealism (@helga.stentzel) Helga Stentzel, a talented visual artist in London, creates wonderful vignettes…
Tough Father Consoles His Sensitive Son About Spider Under His Bed in a Creatively Animated Music Video
In 2007, illustrator Kirsten Lepore (previously) drew a very detailed animation for the Garrett Davis song “Story from North America” which describes a tough father…
Wavelength, A Social Guessing Game That Challenges Players to Read Each Other’s Minds
Wolfgang Warsch, creator of the game The Mind, joined forces with fellow game designers Alex Hague and Justin Vickers, who made the game Monikers, created…
The Simple Safety Reason That Explains Why Plane Cabin Lights Are Turned Off During Takeoff and Landing
In a lofty video essay for Cheddar, producer Patrick Jones explains why the cabin lights are turned out both during the takeoff and landing of…
Husqvarna Launches ‘Timber’, An App That Matches Tree Lovers With Available Trees Around the World
In celebration of Valentine’s Day, Swedish outdoor power products company Husqvarna has amusingly launched Timber, the world’s first dating service that matches lonely dendrophiles with…
Tesla Introduces a Temperature Regulating ‘Dog Mode’ That Assures Passersby That the Dogs Within Are Safe
Tesla Motors has introduced the very thoughtful “Dog Mode” for their vehicles. This wonderful dashboard feature not only regulates the temperature inside the car when…
Lucas the Spider and His Brand New Friend the Fly Search the House for Something Yummy to Eat
After becoming friends with the skittish fly who got caught in his lovingly homemade web, a very happy Lucas the Spider decided that he was…
‘Stranger Things’ Dungeons & Dragons Starter Kit
In a very meta nod to the sublime Netflix series Stranger Things and its 1980s nostalgia, Hasbro has released a Stranger Things Dungeons and Dragons…
The Chemistry Behind the Crimping, Curling and Styling Products That Made Hair So Very Big in the 1980s
In a hirsute episode of ACS Reactions, a perfectly coiffed Ms. Beautyphile explains the chemical compounds and reactions behind all those crazy crimping, curling and…