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As you probably heard, New Jersey Nets player Devin Harris scored a ridiculous buzzer-beater on Monday night to win a game against the Philadelphia 76ers. You probably also know that in the “Whatever you did I can do better, faster, harder and stronger and with more endorsement deals” world of American professional sports, we’re really [...]

Thank the Father it’s Freudian Fridays! In this edition of our weekly psychoanalystical where we turn Sigmund loose all over the fields of contemporary pop culture we’ll be looking at technological doo-dads that are more than they claim to be. Living in a technophilic age as we do, it’s no surprise that the imagery of [...]

If there is one thing that can be said with certainty about the Internet it’s that anything that gets posted to the web will likely outlive the insects who have survived the Nuclear Apocalypse. That’s why, starting today, The Daily What will begin forcibly retiring viral sensations whose time has come – for the good [...]

It’s really quite sad how bad we (the cultural “we” and the Listicles “we”) have gotten at taking care of our own clothes. We can still manage to sew a button and if the situation gets dire we might hem a pair of pants, but repairing holes in sock? No way. To boot the number [...]

Despite the big kerfuffle being made about Joss Whedon’s new show Dollhouse (with every critic rushing to speak their piece on the pop culture czar’s latest venture), let’s not forget the rich (and sometimes very poor) tradition of shows starring female protagonists fighting against or for malevolent forces. Listicles takes a look at Dollhouse’s lineage [...]

Bound as they are to the shaky territory of racial politics, movies about ethnic mobs are both highly specific and can stand for the experiences of just about any immigrant community. Also, a disproportionate number of them have been directed by Martin Scorsese (at right).
Still, some of our favorite films take these small groups as [...]

When we used to live in Montreal (oh, those were simpler times) we’d see Roadsworth’s clever urban art all over the place and we eventually didn’t even notice. Looking at it now though, we’re remembering just how cool it was and how poorly the city handled this renegade visionary (they threatened to banish him from [...]

Did you know that today’s ubiquitous camouflage army uniforms came about mostly because early 20th century Brits and Germans couldn’t be bothered to dress their armies stylishly? Or that Roman Catholic priests’ tell-tale white collars became the norm when all the cool priests started following a late 16th century trend towards un-popping their collars.
This interesting [...]

A 37-year-old woman in London is accused of having her boyfriend punch a man who shouted at her for cutting the line in a grocery store. He ended up punching the wrong man–and killed him.
The world is finally getting wise to your pirating ways, Somalian Pirates.
“The tenderness of the delicate American buttock is [...]

Yes, the current fad for 80s nostalgia can get a little tedious, especially when applied to arcane markers of nerd-dom like first-generation video games. That was our initial reaction when we saw Unreality’s listicle of 10 Nintendo Ads from the 80s. Then we saw this incredible ad for WWF Wrestlemania and suddenly everything made sense:

Someone [...]

We’ve always known that many sports – especially motor sports – are environmentally disastrous. Additionally, even with environmentally neutral sports, the ways we tend to play and practice make them harmful. For instance, it came as no surprise to us that TreeHugger’s listicle of 7 Un-Environmental Sports and Activities includes sky-diving, motor boat racing and [...]

An article about an exciting new-ish pet trend in the Style section of the New York Times caught our eye over breakfast this morning. It appears that pet monkeys, long thought to be the province of fantastic tales like Mighty Joe Young, are in fact quite common. Before we scour the city’s pet stores and [...]

With the recent Yves Saint Laurent-Pierre Bergé art auction proving that the lifetime collections of famous rich people can still fetch huge sums in an art market many predicted was crashing, it’s time to start planning ahead for April’s Michael Jackson auction.
Yes, the gloved one is only the most eccentric victim of the foreclosure epidemic, [...]

Welcome back for the third edition of Listicles’ weekly round-up of all the nifty short-form moving image ephemera we come across in a given seven day period. There’s always more than we can squeeze into a three video post, so know that each installment of Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos is the result of a stressful, [...]

Around the Listicles office we’re constantly referring to one another as foods. One person may be cool as a cucumber, while another is top banana, although some of us might not really be cutting the mustard. On the whole though, our staff tends to agree that Listicles is the best thing since sliced bread and [...]

Sure, performing a different sexuality might be an Academy-sanctioned acting feat with Sean Penn’s Oscar for Milk, but drag performances rarely get as much cred (look for a notable exception after the jump). And there have been some pretty terrific drag performances in film.
Just look at this great listicle from Future of Classic, which claims [...]

Okay, so Michael Bay is a big joke of a filmmaker – though his fetishism of military paraphernalia isn’t very funny. He can put together a car chase and a few other special effects showcase scenes very nicely though. Even if the physics and movements of it all stop making sense about halfway through, these [...]