Laughing Squid
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Rocket Hobbyists Successfully Launch a Portable Toilet Into the Sky
Members of Southwest Michigan’s Michiana Rocketry Club attached rockets to the bottom of a portable toilet at the recent Thrusting the Throne event, launching it…
A Shot-for-Shot Remake of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer Using Only Original Trilogy Footage
YouTube user Dr. Jimmy Russell recently created a shot-for-shot remake of the newly released teaser trailer for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens using…
A Dry Stream Bed Instantly Becomes a Raging River, Overtaking a Bridge in the Process
Eloyet Rico posted a stunning video of the River Cérvol in Vinaròs, Spain transforming from a dry stream bed to a raging river in a…
Elder ‘Star Wars’ Cast Shows Their Age in a SNL Spoof of the ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Trailer
An elder group of cast members from the original Star Wars trilogy show their age in a Saturday Night Live spoof of the newly released…
CollegeHumor Calls Out the Guy Who Over-Pronounces Foreign Words
In a recent comedy sketch, CollegeHumor calls out the guy who over-pronounces foreign words. At a dinner with his friends Adam Conover and Patrick Cassels,…
A ‘Seinfeld’-Themed Aquarium Built in the Body of an Old Tube Television Set
Maker Matt Davidson used a discarded wood tube television frame to create a fish tank inspired by the popular 1990s television show Seinfeld. The interior…
‘StreetPong’, A Two-Person Game of ‘Pong’ Played at an Intersection While Waiting for the Light to Change
StreetPong is an art installation/game installed on traffic lights by Urban Invention in Hildesheim, Germany that’s played by two people on either side of an…
An Experiment Mimicking Perpetual Motion Using an Escalator and a Series of Brightly Colored Balls
En Was Not Here performed a science experiment of sorts by releasing a bag full of colorful plastic balls at the bottom and top of…
Impressive Metal Drum Solos Performed on an iPad Garageband Drum Kit
A YouTube user calling himself Appleman is creating some really impressive drum tracks using a Garageband drum kit on an iPad and some extremely fast…
‘Planet Tails’, The Second Operational Cat Café in America Opens in Naples, Florida
Planet Tales, a pet lifestyle center in Naples, Florida opened on December 3, 2014, becoming the second operational cat café in the United States. Founder…