Listicles

10 Extravagant Dog Houses

Any pet of ours will have to build its own home from scratch. We will provide tools and maybe some help with drafting blueprints, but the rest will be left up to its more or less capable paws. This is not intended as some sort of animal cruelty; we have rather high hopes for animal architecture. We’re quite sure that what they come up with will be more appropriate and interesting than the ridiculous structures that we make for them, like The Coolist’s 10 Extravagant Dog Houses, or this sexy, curvy, green-roofed canine abode. (via Design You Trust)

Top 10 Football Scenes in Movies

As far as sports-y metaphors for American society go, none is probably quite so eloquent and insightful as football, with its strictly divided class system, its rigid hierarchy of knowledge with a few powerful people of privilege bossing the workers around and, more recently, its complete caving in to the needs of television broadcasters. That last point is touched upon in Any Given Sunday, which appears on Inside Movies’ listicle of the Top 10 Football Scenes in Movies. Who doesn’t appear, weirdly, is Forrest Gump, despite his amazing touchdown in a college football game–which is touched upon in this sixty second version of the film.

8 Super Skinny Buildings

Wide open spaces make us nervous. We thrive off the forced conviviality and warmth of narrow apartments and tight offices overlooking tiny streets that we careen down on our bicycles (which are also narrow). Once, after mistakenly signing a lease on a warehouse-like loft apartment, we built a tiny, tool shed-sized shack inside it as a refuge. It looked something like one of the entries in oobject’s listicle of 8 Super Skinny Buildings. One day we hope to live in another beautiful little building full of character, 19 West 46th Street in Midtown Manhattan, an adorable little 12′5″ relic squeezed between two high-rises.

14 Perfect Pi Pies

Sunday is Pi Day (3/14, of course!), and to celebrate we baked you these 14 Perfect Pi Pies. (We had originally intended to bake 314 such pies for the sake of greater numerical accuracy, but this proved to be a terrible idea.) Pi Pies, in case you eat all of these before Sunday and need to make your own, require 3 cups of flour, 1 egg, 4 teaspoons of sugar, one teaspoon of salt, 5 cups of filling (whatever you choose to fill it with), 9 pinches of baking soda…

(Queen of Cake/Flickr)

(Queen of Cake/Flickr)

More slices of pi pie after the jump.

8 Not Sad Missing Dog Signs

We are very happy to report that we have never had to make a sign for a missing pet (or, goodness forbid, human), but if we did we doubt we would be able to be as funny as the concerned owners behind Neatorama’s 8 Not Sad Missing Dog Signs. Even faced with the very real possibility of tragic loss, they’re able to keep a sense of humor. We noticed one missing “missing” sign, though, for the Soviet space dog Laika.

Top 10 Movie Gang Fights

We were in a gang fight once. Well, we saw one. From really far away. It may have been a rugby team practice… At any rate, we much prefer seeing gang fights in movies than in real life, where they tend to be less well coordinated and more confusing. Indeed, one of AMC Movie Blog’s Top 10 Movie Gang Fights is actually a musical, and another brawl we think should have been included, from Martin Scorsese’s sophomore film Mean Streets (1973), is set to “Mr. Postman.”

12 Pretty Post-It Note Animations

Remember how in that awful chick flick Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (1997), the two title characters end up saying that they made it big by inventing the Post-It, only to have their lie exposed by a fellow alum? No? That movie must have left more of a mark than we expected. You know what doesn’t leave a mark? A post-it note, which makes it kind of a perfect medium for animation. Therefore, he are 12 Pretty Post-It Note Animations.

This is how we used to play Pong before video games were invented. This post has more post-it note animations.

11 Unusual Webcams

Webcams are a bit of a throwback to the Internets of yesteryear, no? Now that we have live streaming video from just about anywhere in the world, are choppy, slow, low-resolution webcams really relevant anymore? Well, maybe when they become most irrelevant is precisely when they’re at their best and most relevant. What do we mean? Well, check out Asylum’s listicle of 11 Unusual Webcams and you’ll see just how weirdly hooked you might get on something like a live feed of a creepy snowman in Gaylord, Michigan.

12 Videos of Artists Making Wall Illustrations

It takes us forever to make the many amazing murals that adorn our office walls. Our foremost media and materials are post-it notes, darts and single slices of baloney. The results are often pointillist in style and smoky in smell. Watching us at work would probably be pretty entertaining, though certainly not as interesting as watching the processes of artists in Tutor Art’s listicle of 12 Videos of Artists Making Wall Illustrations. We would also add this incredible collaborative mural by two of our favorite street artists, Know Hope and Aakash Nihalani.

(via Design You Trust)

12 Unexpected Snuggie Wearers

You will never, ever find us wearing a snuggie, ever, unless we were to just happen upon one for some reason at a party or something in which case, maybe we might just try it on for a photo-op. And there you’d have one more surprising someone in a snuggie, another fashion victim giving up on life. We’d totally put ourselves on our listicle of 12 Unexpected Snuggie Wearers.

Snuggies on the half shell: Leonardo, being a self-sacrificing leader, didn’t get a snuggie. Snuggle up to more snuggie wearers.