The Listicles offices are within a few blocks of several great graffiti murals that regularly get painted over and updated, making our dreary ride to work every morning a little brighter. We were rather surprised to not find any of those local masterpieces on Smashing Magazine’s listicle of 40 Great Graffiti Artworks, so we included one below. (via FFFFOUND!)
(ATOMIC LLC/Flickr)
You would be surprised, we suspect, to see how clean and tidy our computers are given the innumerable things that list experts have to keep in huge quantities. Maintaining a semblance of order is hard work, so when we heard that today is Clean Out Your Computer Day we got a little annoyed: every day is Clean Out Your Computer Day at Listicles! In frustration, we’ve decided to destroy, rather than clean, our computers, like the motherboard bombers in these 10 Cool Computer Explosions.
Surprisingly big blast for such a tiny bomb. Take cover from computer explosions after the jump.
We once took out a classified ad in the local paper to offer our skills as list-makers, but due to a rather unfortunate typo we were quickly approached by hordes of event-planners looking for talented mist-makers. Since then we’ve only gone to the classifieds as a sure source of comedy, as evidenced by Manofest’s listicle of 33 Funny Classified Ads. We’re surprised they missed the above listing for a car so cool that it’s not even for sale.
Weirdly, we seem to have many more banned Super Bowl commercials in the running this year, maybe because in the age of viral marketing getting banned is better (and cheaper) than getting aired. For instance, the only ad from the big game last year is that PETA spot, and it didn’t even get shown. It comes in at number four in The Daily Beast’s listicle of 12 Banned Super Bowl Ads, our favorite of which is Bud Light’s Apology-Bot 3000 commercial from 2007. (via Asylum)
Most years nothing exciting happens for all eight hours of Super Bowl. Every so often, crazy things take place during commercial breaks, half-time shows and, very rarely, during the game itself. Watching this vidsticle of the Top 10 Super Bowl Plays of All Time, it’s hard to not think that about half of them are actually not very exciting at all. Go Saints!
Oh, hey, look at the time! It must be the start of Superbowl weekend. Honestly, all we care about are the ads, which tend to be the only part of the event (the game, the halftime show, the nacho feast) that isn’t horribly disappointing. And thankfully, very few Superbowl commercials actually have football players in them (they still have one game to play), because as Complex’s listicle of the 10 Worst Ads Starring NFL Players proves, football pros are terrible ad men. As evidence, we present Jim McMahon’s 1986 Honda Scooter commercial.
Every February 5, the entire nation bursts into a heated celebration for the men and women who predict our weather: It’s National Weatherperson’s Day! On this date, every weatherperson in the country is allowed to ask the president of the Weatherperson’s Association for one thing (sort of like asking the Don one thing on his daughter’s wedding day), and most of the folks in this listicle are probably going to ask for forgiveness. Don’t trust the forecast; these are our 12 Worst Weatherpersons.
Just be very still, and nobody will see you failing. More unfortunate forecasts.
There was a time, before ours, when geeks were not permitted to listen to music, because music, at one extreme, was classical and therefore the purview of parents and other squares or, at the other extreme, really cool and only fit for the hip kids. Thankfully, nerdy music is very common now, as Popten’s listicle of the Top 10 Geek Songs demonstrates. We’d like to add our personal nerd anthem: Deltron 3030’s “Virus”. (via BuzzFeed)
American movies of the 70s, with all their stoic male leads living on the open road and the wrong side of the law, were probably the best period for the carefully choreographed car chase. Or at least the most prolific. Accordingly, there are lots and lots to pick over whenever one attempts to assess which were best, so it’s no surprise that in trying to select the Top 10 Movie Car Chases of the 70s, the folks at Ridelust overlooked the awesome opening chase from Michael Cimino’s Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974).
(via Neatorama)
Today is Across the Universe Day, because on this date in 1968 the crazy prolific Beatles recorded that eponymous track in just one day at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London. Since then, of course, it’s become one of the group’s most famous songs, inspiring homages, covers, remixes and at least one movie. We parsed through it all to pick what are without a doubt the 10 Best Covers of Across the Universe.
Roger Waters and Andy Fairweather Low
Tacky psychedelic music videos make us happy. Across the jump.
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