Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
Woman Grabs Lost iPad, Takes Silly Selfies Which Then Autoload to Owner’s iPhone
“Hey cool! This is an actual pic of the wonderful person who stole my iPad. Apparently the pics she is taking of herself are backing…
Electric Fence Experiment Ends As Expected
Australian Angus Fowles and friends staged an ill-advised experiment in which they formed a human chain connected to an electric fence. The first four…
Triolin, A Handmade Triple Violin
Artist and instrument maker Alex Sobolev built three violins and joined them together to create the “Triolin.” The instrument is quite striking but rather impractical—because…
Grumpy Cat Painted in the Style of Van Gogh’s Starry Night
“Grumpy Cat Is Still Grumpy” Grumpy Cat Is Still Grumpy is a painting by New York-based Aja of Tard the Grumpy Cat which is fashioned…
Guy Pranks Friend with a Diaper Full of Chocolate Pudding
Photojournalist Jase Hunter posted a fantastic video in 2011 of a prank that he pulled on his friend Mark (who has a phobia of…
Big Air Package, A Giant Envelope of Air in a Former Gas Storage Tank by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
“Big Air Package” by Christo and Jeanne-Claude is a 295 foot tall fabric envelope of air that nearly fills the interior of the Gasometer Oberhausen,…
Antelope Seems to Grunt ‘Huh?!’
The antelope in this video seems to grunt “Huh?!” in an amusing way. ‘Crazy Antelope’ now has its own Facebook page.
Panorama of Mars’ Mount Sharp From NASA’s Curiosity Rover
NASA has unveiled new images from the Curiosity Rover of Mars’ massive Mount Sharp. The images were taken on September 20th, 2012 with Curiosity’s 100-millimeter-focal-length telephoto lens…
Deaf Mother Hears Sound for the First Time with Hearing Implant
In 2011, we posted an emotional video about Sarah Churman, a woman born deaf who cried tears of joy after getting a hearing implant. Last…
Pictures We Didn’t Take Before Digital Cameras
Pictures We Didn’t Take Before Digital Cameras by Twenty Pixels via Tastefully Offensive