Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
Stylish Cycling On The Rise – Tweed Rides In San Francisco, Chicago and Sydney
Tweed Rides – group bicycle events in which riders eschew spandex in favor of elegant, vintage-inspired riding attire – are growing in popularity, with newly-announced…
Laughing Squid Launches New Blog Design
Laughing Squid has had some form of an all black website over 13 years, so it’s finally time for a change. We’ve just launched a…
Lost at Sea, A Poignant Merchant Mariners’ Memorial Sculpture in NYC
photo by Scouting NY Artist Marisol Escobar designed this poignant memorial to American Merchant Mariners lost at sea located on the west side of Battery…
How to Capture a Giant Squid
illustration by Michael Rogalski Maggie Koerth-Baker has a guest great post on Boing Boing about “How to Capture a Giant Squid” which includes a wonderful…
Chicken John Survives a Bottle Rocket Attack
At Saturday night’s How to Destroy the Universe Part 6 event at NIMBY, Chicken John offered people the chance to shoot bottle rockets as him…
Great Series of Animated Scrabble Ads
Ogilvy and Mather put together a beautiful series of advertisements for Scrabble in which an engaging animation illustrates the silly and sweet songs that really…
The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack Available in Hardcover
The Perry Bible Fellowship is a web comic done good by Nicholas Gurewitch, who got himself a real life hardbound publication deal with Dark Horse…
The Story of Beer Through History
Sean Percival posted great graphic on Manolith that illustrates The Story of Beer. via The Ephemerist
Look at This Lovely Hamster
photo by unknown In response to all the hipster hate going around, I offer you a moment of joy with Look at This Lovely Hamster…
Alien vs. Predator Playing Chess & Pool
3D artist Benjamin Parry created some amazing illustrations of Alien vs. Predator playing a leisurely game of chess and pool for a Sky Digital New…