Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
Clever Thanksgiving Dinner Nutrition Label T-Shirts
Textile artist Boots created a clever line of coordinating t-shirts featuring nutrition labels for the typical items of a Thanksgiving dinner.
Man Uses 3D Printing Pen to Painstakingly Create an Accessible Rubik’s Cube For Blind People
Ukrainian Rubik’s Cube expert Evgeny Bondarenko decided that he wanted to share his favorite activity with those who are blind. Bondarenko quite expertly peeled off…
Sailboat Cook Ably Sways To and Fro With the Motion of the Rough Seas While Preparing Food for the Crew
While sailing on the ship Avontuur with the environmentally conscious cargo company Timbercoast, cook Lasse Scharz did his very best to ensure the crew’s meal…
Hilarious True Facts About the Incredibly Fashion Forward Cutter Insects Who Are Masters of Disguise
Using amazing footage from the late, great insect photographer Andreas Kay (previously) who sadly passed away in October, the very entertaining Ze Frank examines the…
Melting a Wicked Witch of the West Made of Crayons
Sculptor Steven Richter quite skillfully and amusingly built an incredibly accurate model of the Wicked Witch of the West from the classic children’s tale The…
A Precision Spinning Top With Mesmerizing Kinetic Motion That Mimics the Fall of Raindrops Into Water
The MezmoTop is a beautifully heavy, precision spinning top with a swirling design that, when in motion, mimics the delicate fall of raindrops into a…
Interactive Visualization of the Scale of Objects in Space
Computer scientist Neal Argarwal has created “The Size of Space”, an incredible, interactive visualization showing how the various objects in space measure up to each…
The Boob Cube, A Simplified Two Piece Rubik’s Cube
The Rubik’s Cube is an elaborate puzzle that can often confound minds both large and small. For those who’d like a bit more ease of…
Beautiful Slow Motion Footage of a Tortoise Beetle Taking Flight Into the Ecuadorian Amazon Forest
Photographer Andreas Kay, who passed away in 2019, captured amazing slow footage of a beautifully flat-footed tortoise beetle as the cassidoid prepared to take flight…
Building an Electric Guitar Out of 800 Pieces of Paper
The very creative Burl of Burl’s Art, who has previously created an amazing assortment of unusual guitars made from unusual materials, was determined to try…