Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
Clever Pizza Socks With a Variety of Toppings Packaged in Cardboard Pizza Delivery Boxes
Meg Cyprian and her husband of Warsaw, Poland create incredibly cute and very clever cotton socks that look like different flavors of pizza toppings such…
A Borderless Infinity Puzzle of Earth With Pieces Shaped Like Animals From Around the World
The Earth Puzzle by Nervous System is a wonderfully unique way of viewing the world in through very different eyes. The creators took a standard…
How First Ten Pages of ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Script Comprehensively Sets Premise for the Entire Film
In an insightful video essay regarding the economy of storytelling, filmmaker Michael Tucker of Lessons from the Screenplay takes a look at the first ten…
Handcrafted Wooden Bookshelf Inserts Depicting 3D Dioramic Urban Back Alley Scenes With Working Lights
Monde has created a series of wooden bookshelf inserts that are the size of a paperback book and depict realistic back street alley scenes.
Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson Honor Julia Louis-Dreyfus by Performing the Seinfeld ‘Elaine Dance’
During the 21st Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC, comediennes Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson of the…
Western Australia City Uses Highly Effective Trash Nets to Capture Debris Coming Through Drainage System
View this post on Instagram A post shared by City of Kwinana (@cityofkwinana) on Aug 21, 2018 at 12:28am PDT The City of Kwinana, just…
Heavy Duty Tethered Cleaning Drones That Safely Wash Windows of High Altitude Skyscrapers
The Latvian company Aerones has introduced their line of heavy duty tethered cleaning drones that wash the windows of high altitude skyscrapers in an efficient…
Gigantic Cow Whose Immense 6’4″ Height and 3,000 Pound Weight Saved Him From the Slaughterhouse
View this post on Instagram A post shared by PerthNow (@perthnow) on Nov 27, 2018 at 9:07pm PST A rather reserved but towering Holstein Friesian…
Stop Vegans, Before It’s Too Late
The kale forests are almost all gone…
The Nebulous Origins of the Heavy Metal Music Genre
In “Who Invented Metal”, music writer Polyphonic traces the somewhat nebulous origins of the constantly changing, ever evolving heavy metal music genre. He examines when…