Laughing Squid
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Pizza Place Creates an Inspiring Pay it Forward Program for Customers to Buy a Slice of Pizza for Someone in Need
Lehigh Pizza in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania has created a Pay it Forward Pizza program through which customers can buy a slice of pizza for someone in…
An Amusing 8-Bit Menorah With Push Button LEDs For Celebrating Chanukah in a Modern Retro Style
Think Geek has put an amusing modern retro spin on the most well know tradition of Chanukah with an 8-bit styled battery powered LED menorah…
A Supercut of ‘Star Wars’ Characters Getting Their Limbs Sliced and Shot Off by Lightsabers and Blasters
Los Angeles-based filmmaker Pablo Fernández Eyre has created “Star Wars – Amputations,” a fantastic supercut video of Star Wars characters getting their limbs sliced and…
Artist Adds Pop Culture Characters to Old Thrift Store Paintings
Rochester, New York artist Dave Pollot, whose custom work we have written about in the past, is back with a new collection of old thrift…
‘Where the Heck Is Matt?’, A Fundraising Project That Lets Users Decide Where Matt Harding Goes
The dancing Matt Harding of “Where the Hell is Matt” fame has created a new project called “Where the Heck is Matt?“. The project is…
Dayton, Ohio Creatives Honor Their City in a Fun Music Video Remix of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ New Song ‘Downtown’
Creatives at the Dayton, Ohio-based Nucleus CoShare, Indigo Life Media, and Cincinnati-based Focus Peak Media recently teamed up to represent the growing city of Dayton…
Stephen Colbert Steps In With a Trick When the Performing Felines of Acro-Cats Get a Bit of Stage Fright
On a recent episode of The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert amusingly stepped in to perform a simple kitty trick when the camera-shy felines of…
Tiny Arcade, A Mini Retro Playable Game Cabinet That Fits in the Palm of Your Hand
Ken Burns and his team at the Akron, Ohio-based open source hardware company, TinyCircuits, have created a retro tiny playable game cabinet that they appropriately…
The Loud Mini, A Compact Bicycle Horn Designed to Sound Exactly Like a Car Horn to Keep Cyclists Safe
The Loud Mini is a compact bicycle horn designed to sound exactly like a car horn to keep cyclists safe. The first iteration of the…
Classic ‘Star Wars’ Toy Commercials From 1977 Placed in the Same Order as Scenes From ‘Star Wars: A New Hope’
Youtuber Eric Stran has created a compilation video of classic Star Wars toy commercials from 1977. They placed the Kenner toy commercials in the same…