Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
Simon’s Cat Unintentionally Spooks His Skittish Human in a Series of Amusing Halloween Vignettes
In a really amusing series of vignettes for Halloween 2017, a very curious Simon’s Cat unintentionally scares his rather skittish human who’s deeply afraid of…
Shoal Tent, An Inflatable Raft With a Tent Topper for Sleeping Under the Stars While on the Water
SmithFly has created the Shoal Tent, an inflatable floating raft with a tent topper for sleeping under the stars while on the water. It is…
Chainsaw Artist Transforms a Tree Stump Into a Gorgeous Sculpture of a Bucket Pouring Water
Talented Romanian chainsaw artist Gabi Rizea transformed a half dead tree stump of an ash tree into a truly gorgeous illusory sculpture of water pouring…
Cozy Knitted Mermaid Tail Blanket
Firebox is featuring a cozy Mermaid Blanket, knitted from super soft polyester, that will turn your ordinary human limbs into a glorious mermaid or merman…
A Stranger Things Pie Design Featuring Eleven and Her Bloody Nose
In honor of the second season of Stranger Things creeping up on Netflix later this month, Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin of Pies Are Awesome released a…
Persistent Man Learns How to Solve a Rubik’s Cube So That He Can Solve One While Skydiving
For his new six-part web series, How to Learn Anything, Stephen Robinson of 52 Skillz spent three months learning how to solve a Rubik’s Cube…
How Medical Terms for Parts of the Human Anatomy Originated With Names of Familiar Items
In a rather articulate episode of their incredibly informative whiteboard series for Mental Floss , linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill verbally and visually…
Splitting Metal Airsoft Pellets in Half With a Knife to Pop Two Balloons in Super Slow Motion
Gavin Free of The Slow Mo Guys created a super slow motion video of Dan Gruchy shooting metal airsoft pellets at a SOG knife, which…
Paper Trail, A Mesmerizing Hand Drawn Animation Made Out of Ink, Correction Fluid and Collage
“Paper Trail,” by artist Jake Fried, is an amazing hand drawn animation and like his previous works, is a mesmerizing, quickly evolving portrait of sorts…
Curious Arctic Fox Pups Destroy a Motion Sensing Camera During the Filming of a Documentary
While a PBS Nature crew was filming a short documentary about the arctic fox, several of the young pups discovered a hidden, motion sensing camera…