The researchers of the NASA program “Operation IceBridge“, the longest running aerial surveyor of polar ice, captured absolutely stunning photos of two different icebergs with relatively straight edges and corners forming rectangles, a shape rarely found in this environment. These and other tabular-shaped bergs broke off from the Larsen C Ice Shelf which sits in…
Taking the 6 Line Into the Secret NYC City Hall Loop Subway Station That Was Closed in December 1945
In a subterranean episode of the Fast Company series You Have to See This, host Mark Wilson rides the the number 6 subway line several times to catch a glimpse of the little known, defunct City Hall Loop station, the very first subway station in existence. Unfortunately, the station was taken out of commission in…
Managed WordPress at Laughing Squid Hosting
Some readers may realize this, but Laughing Squid is also a web hosting company that focuses on Managed WordPress hosting. The revenue from our hosting services helps support this blog. We’ve been in the hosting business a very long time and know it well. We launched our hosting company way back in 1998 and evolved…
Hilarious Play-by-Play Commentary On a Fictional Fight Between Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees
The Auralnauts, who are very funny and quite prodigious video makers, got into the Halloween spirit with ongoing, play-by-play commentary for a fictional fight taking place between A Nightmare on Elm Street‘s Freddy Krueger and Friday the 13th‘s Jason Voorhees. Needless to say, it doesn’t end pretty. Does a mindless immortal killing machine have bad…
A Whimsical LEGO Vortex Halloween Candy Launcher
The very talented LEGO designer Jason Allemann of JK Brickworks built a Vortex LEGO Candy Launcher. This brilliant machine, like his previous Halloween machines, was created to assist him with tossing out sweets to kids. Allemann built this whirling, whimsical machine out of the LEGO 17101 BOOST Creative Toolbox. This candy machine spins up little…
Incredibly Intricate Portraits Carved Into Pumpkins
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Maniac Pumpkin Carvers ??? (@maniacpumpkins) on Oct 9, 2018 at 12:23pm PDT The very aptly named Maniac Pumpkin Carvers in Brooklyn, New York create incredibly intricate and highly realistic portraits into orange gourds all year round. The company also offers custom carving, branding, live carving events…
Photographer Creates a Unique Temporary Camera Lens Out of Glacial Ice From Iceland’s Diamond Beach
French filmmaker Mathieu Stern, whose incredible work we’ve previously posted, shares how he created a unique but very temporary camera lens out of 10,000 year old glacial ice found upon the black sands of Diamond Beach in the South Region of Iceland. Stern prepared for this project with a 3D printed lens case and a…
The Incredible Technology Behind the Apollo 11 Lunar Mission That Took the First Astronauts to the Moon
In a nostalgic video essay, Vox producer Coleman Lowndes revisits the awesome technology of the Saturn V rocket and Apollo 11 spacecraft, which took the very first astronauts to the moon. Lowndes particularly notes how the enormous rocket separated into segments, each detaching itself after accomplishing the specific task for which the section was made….