Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
House(hold) Beat, A Song Created From Household Sounds
Musician Andrew Shum created a catchy tune by sampling 11 sounds he recorded around his house, from a vacuum cleaner whine to a cellphone ringtone.
Feline Agility Training With an Adorable Kitten-in-Training
The Cat Fanciers’ Association, the world’s largest registry of pedigreed cats, has a real competition called Feline Agility where cats go through ten obstacles successfully.…
Floor 1997-2000, A Glass Floor Supported by 180,000 Plastic Figurines
In the art installation “Floor 1997-2000” by South Korean artist Do Ho Suh, more than 180,000 plastic figurines support a glass floor that viewers can…
StuckUp Stickers, iPhone App for Finding & Sharing Street Art Stickers
Stuck Up Stickers is a free iPhone app for finding, documenting, and sharing art stickers wherever they are found. The app was created by All…
Shit Support Agents Say
Our friends at Zendesk (we use their awesome cloud based help desk system) made Shit Support Agents Say featuring Matthew Latkiewicz, their contribution to the…
Douchebag Merit Badges
Douchebag Merit Badges by Pleated Jeans
Years, A Modified Record Player That Creates Music From a Tree’s Growth Rings
“Years” is a modified record player that analyzes the growth rings on a cross section of a tree and translates the information into ghostly piano…
Beautiful Time-Lapse Video of Yosemite National Park
Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty created a beautiful time-lapse video of Yosemite National Park as part of their Project Yosemite. The video is set to…
Super Creepy Animatronic Baby
A nightmare inducing video of a creepy animatronic baby mechanism that was built by Chris Clarke for a soap opera. via io9 & MetaFilter
Visualization of How People on Twitter Reacted to the Internet Blackout
Andrei Taraschuk and Aaron Ott created a fascinating visualization showing how people on Twitter reacted the Internet blackouts on January 18th in protest of SOPA…