Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
A Vocal African Grey Parrot Celebrates Her 30th Birthday by Doing Some of Her Best Impressions
A beautiful and rather vocal African grey named Einstein celebrated her 30th birthday at the Knoxville Zoo by demonstrating some of her favorite impressions while…
Floating Shapes Gracefully Form Into Abstract Visual Portrayals of Music Being Played by Musicians
“Nebula” by Polish filmmaker Marcin Nowrotek is a gorgeously fluid animation in which floating shapes provide abstract visual portrayals of the sounds coming from a…
How Macaroni and Cheese Was Prepared in 1784
Jas. Townsend, an 18th Century re-enactor and proprietor of Townsends reenactment supplies, jovially cooked up a classic dish of macaroni and cheese, as it was…
Muppet Guys Talking, A Lively Film Featuring Five Original Voices Behind Jim Henson’s Characters
In a really humorous introduction to the upcoming documentary Muppet Guys Talking, four of the original voices behind these beloved characters – Frank Oz, Dave…
The Spectacular Sight of an Entire Fireworks Display Being Deliberately Set Off All at Once
YouTubers Tom Scott and Matt Gray visited the legendary Titanium Fireworks in Bedford, Bedfordshire to sample some of their wares. While the team set up,…
Harlem Globetrotters and Georgia Tech Students Build a Rube Goldberg-Style Trick Shot Machine
The Harlem Globetrotters teamed up with clever students from Georgia Tech‘s colleges of Industrial Design and Music to build a magnificent Rube Goldberg-style trick shot…
A Trio of Musicians Brilliantly Recreate the Function of a Electronic Delay Pedal Using Acoustic Guitars
The incredibly talented and very creative musician Rob Scallon and fellow guitarists Jeff Linville and Dave Dunsire brilliantly performed an acoustic recreation of Scallon’s song…
How Old The Simpson Family Would Actually Be in 2018 If They Continued To Age
Randall Munroe of xkcd created a fun fact chart that shows how old Bart, Lisa, Marge, and Homer Simpson would actually be in 2018 if…
A LEGO Model of the DeLorean Time Machine From Back to the Future Made Out of 65,143 bricks
Ryan “The Brickman” McNaught and Russell Søren-Larsen created an incredible LEGO model of the DeLorean time machine from Robert Zemeckis‘ Back to the Future films.…
A Mind Blowing Cake Made to Look Just Like the Garbage Pail Kids Character, Adam Bomb
A post shared by Sideserf Cake Studio (@sideserfcakes) on Feb 26, 2018 at 8:13am PST Austin, Texas cake artist Natalie Sideserf of Sideserf Cake Studio…