Laughing Squid

• SciShow Explores Canada's Bay of Fundy, A Body of Water With the Largest Tidal Range in the World
• Celestis Pets, A Memorial Service That Honors Deceased Pets by Sending Them Into Space
• San Diego Comic-Con 2014 Cosplay Music Video by Sneaky Zebra
• Detour, A Location-Aware App That Provides Guided Audio Tours
• 'Avoidance', An Animated Short About How Technology Detaches People From the Real World
• Supercut of Ingenious Business Ideas Tom Haverford (Aziz Ansari) Comes Up With on NBC's 'Parks and Recreation'
• GoPro Video of Massive Schools of Jellyfish Off the Coast of Denmark
• 'Anatomy of Songs', A Comic Demonstrating the Basic Elements of Several Musical Genres
• 'How to Have Cybersex on the Internet', A Hilarious Instructional Video From 1997 on the Art of Cybering
• A Series of Unusual Occupations
• An Amazing Version of the Trance Song 'Sandstorm' by Darude Played on a Toy Trumpet
• 'Mind Control Tool', A Nauseatingly Hypnotic Music Video by Eclectic Method and YC The Cynic
• A Visual Reminder That Everyone on the Internet Is an Actual Person
• Grilling a Rib Eye Steak With 2,000-Degree Molten Lava
• Maisie Williams From 'Game of Thrones' Visits San Diego Comic-Con 2014 Disguised as Spider-Man & Guy Fawkes
• Two Playful Fox Cubs Attempt to Race Each Other to the Top of a Plastic Playground Slide
• Simon's Cat Wreaks Total Havoc in the Bathroom While Waiting for His Human to Finish Showering
• Mini-Fridge Made to Look Like a Rubik's Cube
• Vsauce Explores the Speed of Dark
• 'Dear Guardians', A Short Film About the Volunteers Who Watch Over the Monumental Temple Sculpture at Burning Man

SciShow Explores Canada's Bay of Fundy, A Body of Water With the Largest Tidal Range in the World

SciShow host Hank Green explores and explains Canada’s Bay of Fundy, a body of water with the largest tidal range in the world.

Celestis Pets, A Memorial Service That Honors Deceased Pets by Sending Them Into Space

Celestis Pets is a memorial service that honors deceased pets by sending them into space. The service is from Celestis, a company that began memorial spaceflights for deceased humans in 1995. Celestis Pets offers four different kinds of services that send a symbolic portion of deceased pets into space: Earth Rise, Earth Orbit, Luna, and Voyager.

Celestis Pets Memorial Spaceflights launches an engraved flight capsule containing approximately one gram of the cremated remains (or a lock of hair) of your pet into outer space on the mission of your choice. Family members and friends are invited to attend the launch and related activities, including facility tours.

image via Celestis Pets

via CBS Dallas/Fort Worth, Nothing To Do With Arbroath

San Diego Comic-Con 2014 Cosplay Music Video by Sneaky Zebra

Sneaky Zebra has created a music video that features a number of the fantastic cosplays at San Diego Comic-Con 2014 from popular television shows, movies, and video games like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Walking Dead, Borderlands, and many more. We’ve previously written about Sneaky Zebra and their cosplay music videos from various other comic conventions.

music by Down With Webster – “Everybody’s Angel”

via Geeks Are Sexy

Detour, A Location-Aware App That Provides Guided Audio Tours

Detour is a location-aware app that provides guided audio tours. The app features audio that gives background, directions, and personal stories about places that users can listen to while walking around. Users can also sync the audio so that multiple people can experience any given “detour” at the same time. Andrew Mason, former CEO and founder of Groupon, is co-founder of Detour. Detour is scheduled to launch for the Bay Area later this year with a wider release in 2015.

via TechCrunch

'Avoidance', An Animated Short About How Technology Detaches People From the Real World

“Avoidance” is a melancholic animated short by Holon Institute of Technology design student Erica Rotberg that explores how computers, televisions, smartphones, and video games detach people from the real world and each other.

via Vimeo Staff Picks

Supercut of Ingenious Business Ideas Tom Haverford (Aziz Ansari) Comes Up With on NBC's 'Parks and Recreation'

AskMen has created a supercut video of the ingenious business ideas that Tom Haverford (Aziz Ansari) has come up with on NBC’s Parks and Recreation in honor of the show’s sixth season coming to an end.

via UPROXX

GoPro Video of Massive Schools of Jellyfish Off the Coast of Denmark

YouTube user Kenneth Pagh captured some amazing video of a giant school of moon jellyfish with a GoPro while sailing off the coast of Langeland island in Denmark. Another video from Pagh features some lazily swimming lion's mane jellyfish.

via Daily Picks and Flicks

'Anatomy of Songs', A Comic Demonstrating the Basic Elements of Several Musical Genres

"Anatomy of Songs" is a comic by "Wrong Hands" cartoonist John Atkinson that breaks down the musical genres of the indie rock, country, blues, pop, and classic rock into their most basic elements.

image via Wrong Hands

via 22 Words

'How to Have Cybersex on the Internet', A Hilarious Instructional Video From 1997 on the Art of Cybering

"How to Have Cybersex on the Internet" is a 1997 instructional VHS that demonstrates how to get the most out of the web surfing experience and explores the art of cybering. The minute-and-a-half long clip from the video features an enthusiastic and briefly topless (censored for YouTube) instructor. The tape was discovered in a Minnesota thrift store by Found Footage Festival curators Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett.

I'll show you how to reach a cybersex climax. We'll also visit others who have mastered the art of one-handed typing.

submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

A Series of Unusual Occupations

Mental Floss guest host Elliott Morgan discusses a number of potentially odd jobs in “26 Unusual Occupations”. For example, Morgan points out that there are jobs where people embalm things like frogs for use in classrooms.

An Amazing Version of the Trance Song 'Sandstorm' by Darude Played on a Toy Trumpet

Brooklyn-based trombonist Chris Ott plays the 1999 trance song "Sandstorm" by Darude on a toy trumpet in a recent video. Ott has also mastered the art of the mini-toy trumpet, tackling the song "Birdland" with a tiny brass instrument.

via Digg

'Mind Control Tool', A Nauseatingly Hypnotic Music Video by Eclectic Method and YC The Cynic

“Mind Control Tool” is a music video by Eclectic Method that features vocals from Bronx emcee YC The Cynic and a mind-numbing array of different strobing kaleidoscopic effects that may induce sea sickness.

If you have epilepsy, do not watch this video. Even if you do not have epilepsy, this video will probably still give you a headache.

Eclectic Method describes the video as being "stuck in a broke Oculus Rift."

via Laughing Squid Tips

A Visual Reminder That Everyone on the Internet Is an Actual Person

Author and illustrator Nathan W. Pyle has created a visual reminder that everyone on the Internet is an actual person. The idea being that any kind of harassment or otherwise disparaging comment is being directed at a person rather than some nameless, faceless entity. This is assuming, of course, that the other person is not actually a dog.

images via BuzzFeed

Grilling a Rib Eye Steak With 2,000-Degree Molten Lava

“Cooking With Lava” is a video by Bompas & Parr studio featuring professor Robert Wysocki of Syracuse University in New York State harnessing the 2,000-degree heat of molten lava to cook a 10-ounce rib eye. Moments after the lava flow begins its slow descent down a trough of dry ice, the meat is placed on the grill and begins sizzling almost immediately.

via designboom

Maisie Williams From 'Game of Thrones' Visits San Diego Comic-Con 2014 Disguised as Spider-Man & Guy Fawkes

Maisie Williams, the fun-loving actress who plays Arya Stark in HBO’s Game of Thrones, recently visited San Diego Comic-Con 2014 disguised in a Spider-Man and Guy Fawkes (V for Vendetta) mask.

photo via Maisie Williams

via Fashionably Geek, Neatorama

Two Playful Fox Cubs Attempt to Race Each Other to the Top of a Plastic Playground Slide

Two very playful fox cubs try to race each other to the top of a plastic playground slide in this insanely adorable video, posted in 2013 by tallonebehind.

It seems these little guys aren’t the only vulpines who like backyard slides, as evidenced by this video posted in 2012 by Nick Foulger

And this video posted by barnabble in 2010.

via lawebloca, Tastefully Offensive

Simon's Cat Wreaks Total Havoc in the Bathroom While Waiting for His Human to Finish Showering

In “Hot Water“, the ever-hungry Simon’s Cat wreaks total havoc in the bathroom while waiting impatiently for his human to finish showering and feed him.

Mini-Fridge Made to Look Like a Rubik's Cube

ThinkGeek has the exclusive on a really fun mini-fridge that’s made to look like a Rubik’s Cube. The fridge is currently in-stock and being sold for $149.99.

PUZZLING HOW AWESOME IT IS.

• Keep your food cool or warm with this multi-function Rubik’s Fridge
• Looks just like the cube we all know and love
• A ThinkGeek exclusive!

Vsauce Explores the Speed of Dark

Vsauce host Michael Stevens explores the speed of dark. In the video, Stevens explains the somewhat complicated reasoning behind why shadows can arguably “break” the speed of light.

'Dear Guardians', A Short Film About the Volunteers Who Watch Over the Monumental Temple Sculpture at Burning Man

“Dear Guardians” is a short film about the volunteers — known as Temple Guardians — who watch over the Temple, a recurring monumental sculpture at the Burning Man festival. The film was directed by Ian MacKenzie.

Since 2002, the Guardians have held an integral role at the Temple of Burning Man. They have remained largely invisible, holding space from the shadows. Until now.

submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

Recent Articles: