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There might be something to this whole TV hang-out thing, aspiring television writers out there. After all, a central locale where our favorite characters always meet to talk and laugh gives us something familiar and comfortable to look forward to, and a socio-behavioral model to follow in our own friendships. To boot, the owners and [...]

In all the madness over swine flu that has swirled into a veritable apocalyptic storm of disaster predictions, nobody seems to be thinking of small-scale, simple yet universally applicable solutions. Nobody, that is, except Listicles. For a flu strain that leaps borders, cultures and languages, what could be clearer than pig-shaped soap? Now, right after [...]

Yesterday was National Pretzel Day, and while we scoured New York City from one pretzel cart to the next, we wondered what kinds of pretzels we might find if we hit the road. Shortly thereafter we overdosed on pretzels and spent the following six hours lying on a bench in a daze while our stomachs [...]

Did you ever see the Eddie Murphy-Steve Martin comedy Bowfinger? No? Well, it wasn’t an Oscar bait film (in fact it was pretty grossly under-rated), but at one point Murphy’s action movie star character Kit Ramsey points out that black men only get nominated for Oscars if they play slaves, and even then it’s the [...]

Want to know the true stories that gave the beers you (hopefully) avoid drinking like they’re tepid bathwater their names? We’re talking to you, $1 PBR-crushing hipsters and Bud-swilling football fans. Well, it turns out that roughly half the brewing tycoons in North America came to their positions of power through some combination of business-savvy [...]

Just in case being back indoors after the beautiful and sunny weekend (at least here in New York) wasn’t hard enough, we’re about to point out how unpleasant our workspaces are compared to some fancy new and upcoming corporate spaces. Ahoys has a listicle of 10 Inspiring Green Office Blocks, all of which have all [...]

It’s not as if we haven’t featured Star Wars memes in these posts before, but we had made a promise to ourselves that we’d try to minimize Skywalker-related content, only passing along the most interesting and truly engaging iterations of this frankly nearly exhausted saga. Well, it just so happens that our colleagues at Unreality [...]

The new Mike Tyson biopic Tyson – which, apparently, is more of an embedded fan video – opened yesterday, so it’s only fitting that we would pay our own little homage to Iron Mike in our weekly sports column, Sporty Saturdays. Our friends at Unreality, as it turns out, did most of our work for [...]

With all the color options and cluttered layouts available in these glorious Web 2.0 days, it’s always refreshing to arrive on a slick, subdued website – like smooth, cool drink right on you retinas. You’ll notice, for instance, that Listicles strives to minimize its unnecessary visual clutter and colors to a simple palette of white, [...]

We’re somewhat obsessed with pretty video art, even when said art is enabled by an evil corporation. That’s why we have no qualms about ogling the stunning results produced when a huge company throws buckets of money at a talented director or ad agency. To waste away this Friday afternoon in dreamy bliss, we invite [...]

Far be it for us to assume that the folks to the right of the political aisle don’t care about the environment. After all, even crazy libertarians have an irrepressible green thumb. Not only that, but some Republicans in American politics might actually merit the moniker “environmentalist.”
Of course, by “some” we mean 6, and by [...]

Today, for no apparent reason we’ve managed to discover in our research, is Plumber’s Day. Plumbers had an unusually big year in 2008, what with the whole Joe the Plumber meme, now reporting live from Israel. Mostly, though, plumbing is a thankless (and surprisingly lucrative) job that doesn’t even have a celebrity spokesperson. Well, they [...]

Before you deem some hapless celebrity a total tool, we’d recommend reading mental_floss’s listicle of 13 Patent-Holding Celebrity Inventors. Otherwise, you might say that Marlon Brando was a batty and obese fool in his later years, when in fact he patented some sort of drumming device in 2002.
You might also think the Jamie Lee Curtis [...]

Every so often, in a strange moment of Interweb telepathy (or, as we like to call it, “webathy”, which is incidentally the name of the Listicles office cat), two lists will come into existence at nearly the same moment detailing instances of nearly the same phenomenon. One such case occurred recently, when Unreality posted its [...]

Thinking back on the architecture at our high school, all we can remember is something that looked suspiciously like a roadside motel, with a few modular classrooms on wheels set in the outlying parking lots. Then in college, everything was cast in a wannabe Jeffersonian red brick and white column scheme that got tired after [...]

Now that Earth Day is over, we can contemplate the end of Earth with a selection of those fabulous Cold War nuclear scare dramas. While we wait more and more impatiently for John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, we suggest looking at some of the genre’s better entries, like those compiled by Future [...]

As Miss Heels herself, Sarah Jessica Parker, has even admitted, high-heeled shoes pretty much destroy your body. Some, of course, do so more conspicuously than others. In an angered homage to the flashy footwear that flaunts its ankle-twisting, knee-destroying, toe pinching properties, here are Listicles’ 14 Insanely Dangerous High-Heeled Shoes.
Reverse Heels

Delightfully meta, also extremely precarious-looking.