Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
Fencing: The Perfect COVID-19 Sport
A sign outside the La Jolla Fencing Academy very cleverly reads “Fencing: The Perfect COVID-19 Sport”. The sensible reasons are that masks, gloves, and a…
Man Imitates Style of a Third-Person Video Game While Searching For Clues in the Empty Streets of Tokyo
The professional street dancers of Komozawa Isolation have created a live-action video game in which a man wakes up in Shibuya, Tokyo and finds that…
A Cheerful Umbrella Cockatoo Shows Off His Smooth Moves While Dancing With the Veterinary Staff
A cockatoo who was being boarded at the Red Bank Veterinary Hospital in New Jersey showed off his very smooth dance moves.
Teenage Twins Are Blown Away by the Phil Collins Song ‘In the Air Tonight’ While Listening to It For the First Time
The teenage twins Tim and Fred Williams, aka TwinsthenewTrend, of Gary, Indiana amusingly review classic rock songs after hearing them for the first time. One…
A Life-Sized Human Skeleton Sand Mold Kit
Toysmith has created the Bag O’ Beach Bones Playset, a sand mold kit that imprints a life-sized, anatomically correct human skeleton in the sand or…
The Meteoric Rise and Fall of CREEM Magazine Captured in a Rock Star Studded Documentary
Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll Magazine is a feature length documentary that captures the humble beginnings of the iconic publication that started in 1969…
Submergible Robot Spy Monkey Observes the Spa Grooming Rituals of Snow Monkeys From Underwater
In a clip from the PBS/BBC series Spy in the Wild 2 – The North narrated by David Tennant, a robot spy macaque joins a…
An Amazing Amazon Parrot Who Paints, Plays Darts, Fetches and Fist Bumps With Her Devoted Human
A very smart and talented Spectacled Amazon parrot named Binx is up for anything proposed to her by her devoted human Nycole. Binx’s accomplishments have…
A Relaxing Two Hour Video of Glitter Squid Floating in the Water to an Instrumental LoFi Hip Hop Soundtrack
The wonderful Monterey Bay Aquarium has put together an incredibly relaxing video of bigfin reef squid, aka glitter squid, calmly floating in the bright blue…
German Man Turns Sausages Into a Working Piano
Patrick demonstrated his set of ten Bockwurst sausages hooked up to a computer to sound just like the keys of a piano.