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Michael Bay’s latest Ford commercial army recruitment propaganda blockbuster movie, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen comes out this week, and we’re told it will feature all manner of nifty, techy shape-shifters, from building-sized behemoths to bug-sized crawlers. Of course, the latest installment in the franchise begun decades ago by toy-maker Hasbro has plenty of material [...]

We forgot to mention it, but June 20 was Bald Eagle Day, which is really just a pre-drinking party for Independence Day, a not-so-dry dry run. Sadly, it isn’t a big enough national event to merit its own parade, yet. In hopes of spurring the tradition, though, we’ve rounded up some of the eagles we’d [...]

The Listicles offices stand in the shadows of the Manhattan Bridge, which, among its various picturesque features, has two very pretty towers at each end that have some really cool-looking interior spaces with what must be million-dollar views. What goes on in there? Infrastructure stuff, we presume, but surely infrastructure stuff that could be moved [...]

We’d like to say that it qualifies as some kind of public performance art, like defacing some symbolic monument whose legacy you disagree with (like the scene in Life of Brian where the titular Messiah defaces the Roman temple), but really the practice of pretending to have sex with statues is just an obvious and [...]

Hey, the U.S. Open is happening this weekend, and even though we have absolutely no respect for golf (in fact we actively dislike it), we are fascinated by golf fashion. Given how little physical exertion or even simple fitness is required to speed around manicured lawns on electric cars, golf should really be the fashion [...]

Prior to embarking on the writing of this listicle we thought we knew just how cruel people could be to animals (what with the factory farming, habitat depletion and extinction-causing), but oh how we were wrong. In many cases, apparently, that cruelty comes with a copious helping of humiliation, which is how we get mental_floss’s [...]

Today is beloved comic strip character Garfield’s 31st birthday, a fact regular readers of the lazy cat’s antics will already know since Jim Davis makes a point of marking his famous creation’s anniversary ever year. Not surprisingly, being that he’s a grumpy foodie who loves to eat about as much as he likes to be [...]

In a lot of ways, making a movie trailer is like playing with Lego: none of the pieces really mean anything on their own, and you can pretty much piece them together to make anything you please. It’s slightly different from the trailer mashup, which involves combining parts from two or more texts, but the [...]

If we ever dropped half a mil on some massive ice, it would have to look like a list. It would be a huge gold slab dangling from a chunky gold chain, and it would have the names of our 10 favorite precious stones listed on it in order, with the letters made out of [...]

Stop motion videos are like the sure-fire way to Internet success these days (note, for instance, the huge success of Sorry I’m Late), and though they haven’t always been all that visually sophisticated. As everyone jumps on the stop-motion bandwagon though, equipped with better cameras and fine-tuned editing systems, is it any wonder that we’ve [...]

We just saw Year One – the new Harold Ramis comedy with Jack Black and Michael Cera playing cavement – and it’s truly terrible. Not funny, not entertaining, not even well made. It certainly doesn’t deserve a spot on Future of Classic’s listicle of 10 Unforgettable Movie Cavemen and Cavewomen (but then again neither did [...]

Goodness knows we’ve had some close calls with some items of furniture that were just a little too real,but we’ve never had to deal with anything that looked like a bear, Wookiee, whale, python, frog or pig. Those are just a few of the creepy furniture designs included in Fast Company’s listicle of 12 Terrifying [...]

Today is Eat Your Vegetables Day, and though we usually do our best to abide by such dietary dictates, there are some vegetables we simply will not eat no matter what you say. No! We won’t eat them and that’s final! You claim they’re healthy for us, but we’re telling you, they’re much too cute, [...]

‘Tis the season to be grilling, and the biggest grill-fest of them all (July 4) is just a couple weeks away, so it’s not too soon to start thinking about supplies and equipment for that delicious day.
And though it’s still too early to shop for the stuff you’ll be grilling (whether veggie or meat), you [...]

Courtroom scenes are notoriously difficult to pull off, and for every Anatomy of a Murders there are hundreds of Liar Liars. Thankfully, The Onion’s A.V. Club has sifted through the worst and come up with a very entertaining listicle of 18 Legally Unlikely Courtroom Scenes, our favorite of which would have to be this one [...]

At the end of the week, a brand new science-themed mini golf course will be opening at the Hall of Science in Queens, New York, and though that seems an awfully conventional (and predictably pedantic) choice of golf course theme, we’re convinced there’s stranger and more exciting out there. So we hit the links all [...]

We once stepped into a lobster fest by accident, and the proceedings were very clean, sanitary and civilized. That is, until the infamous “running of the lobsters,” which, as you’d expect, was a bloody affair that left 8 people dead and dozens of lobsters boiled. Of course, that’s nothing compared to the epicurean extravaganzas included [...]

It’s usually fairly impressive when an actor portrays several roles within the same film, and in light of Sam Rockwell’s impressive turn in the recent existentialist space story Moon, Vulture has created a listicle of the 10 Greatest Multiple-Role Performances in Movie History. Obviously, Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove was a shoe-in for number one, [...]

As you probably know, unless you’re trapped under a rock without wireless reception, the Iranian election is going, well, not so great. The country’s religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for an investigation, opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi claims his defeat was fraudulent, and incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced his victory within twelve hours of [...]

Not long ago, impressing us with ice cream would have taken very little effort. In the years following our discovery that there was more than vanilla, chocolate and strawberry, even the most obvious combination of ingredients (say, mint chocolate chip) was enough to have us hooked.
Now we’re all grown up, though, so it takes a [...]