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Watching the videos in Hail Mary Jane’s listicle of 10 Epic Pogo Stick Fails, we’re starting to realize that there’s a kind of fated doom to the pogo stick rider. Like, what did you expect would happen? Watch enough of them and getting on a pogo stick starts to look like a daredevil proposition, accepted [...]

So Kobe Bryant’s L.A. Lakers will probably be winning the NBA Finals tomorrow night or, in the case of an Orlando Magic win, sometime early next week. In anticipation of the sure-fire pick for Finals MVP, and already crowned the regular season MVP, we pass along The Hoop Doctors’ vidsticle of Kobe Bryant’s Top 10 [...]

The other morning (this morning), we overslept and ended up rushing out the door hastily without getting through our morning routine. This wasn’t helped by our indecisiveness. We figured out we only had time to have coffee or take a shower, but couldn’t do both, and while trying to decide wasted our spare time and [...]

Today is Magic Day, a day when all the world’s magicians and illusionists go above and beyond their usual repertoire of mind-boggling performances to create the most daring, spectacular and incomprehensible illusions. Of course, many of them fail miserably. Magic, after all, is much harder than pulling a rabbit out of a hat (which is [...]

We’re always pleased when some graphic designer takes it upon themselves to spruce up the look of an oldie but goodie music album, videogame or film. Today’s re-looking project comes courtesy of designer Huw Gwilliam (aka Littlepixel), whose re-imagined 39 Classic Album Covers as Vintage Penguin Books. Our favorite would have to be this version [...]

Not to sound like crazy weirdos, but we’re rather fond of urinals. In terms of easy, no frills ways in and out of the bathroom, they don’t come much more utilitarian. Of course, that’s not to say that they nullify any likelihood of bathroom awkwardness, but they come pretty close. Or rather, well-designed urinals come [...]

There are at least as many fictional bands as there are backstage musicals and rockumentaries, so there are some pretty spectacular groups in Pop Tarts Suck Toasted’s listicle of the 10 Most Underrated Fictional Bands. And while we were all prepared to fawn over the Oneders from That Thing You Do, we hadn’t counted on [...]

Obviously, that iconic moment from James Cameron’s Titanic (and his reenactment thereof at the Oscars) is simply begging to be lampooned. In fact, pop culture has done a pretty good job of it. Given that it requires so few elements and can be boiled down into a single, simple shot, it’s also ripe for parody [...]

Today is Iced Tea Day, and though it doesn’t quite feel all that summery in New York, we’re told that warm, iced tea-meriting weather is right around the corner. To get ourselves pumped for those sun-splashed rivers of iced tea, we’ve rounded up some of the mildly caffeinated, often-too-sweet beverage’s best ads. Not surprisingly, advertisers [...]

Well, let’s face it, when your TV show was created by a toy manufacturing company as a narrative advertisement for young boys, it’s no surprise that you find yourself reaching for ridiculous plots and characters pretty quickly. Such is the case with the Transformers series (whose latest reiteration hits theaters next week), which featured some [...]

Who cares what Obama’s presidential portrait will look like? Illustrator Alexander Barrett has beaten the Warhol-hugging prez to the punch with his spectacularly Warholian series of images portraying All 44 U.S. Presidents’ Portraits as Pandas. Our favorite has got to be Pandaham Lincoln:

(via The Daily What)

Did you know that beloved Walt Disney character Donald Duck was “born” 75 years ago today? It’s true, apparently, and what better way to celebrate that truly unique quack than with a compilation of aborted, unsuccessful and ill-conceived alternates? For a 75 year-old you look great, Donald, much better than these 12 Creepy Versions of [...]

When we turned 7, our parents got us this really cool ice cream birthday cake in the shape of a triceratops, and it was pretty much the best gift we could have imagined. Of course that was the year Jimmy, the disfigured kid from next door showed up, and his uncanny resemblance to our cool [...]

Looking over Jezebel’s listicle of 20 Feminist TV Characters (thanks Dana!), we’re starting to think that there’s something to the TV format that makes intelligent, empowered female characters more interesting and compelling than, say, their movie counterparts. After all, the list is pretty impressive, including Maude Findlay from Maude, Murphy Brown, 30 Rock’s Liz Lemon, [...]

Frank Lloyd Wright, that American architect of opulent hearth-centric homes and worshipper of the automobile, would have turned 142 today were he magically still alive. He’s not, though, and all we have to remember him by are his beautiful buildings, a massive exhibition at his Guggenheim Museum and hundreds of unbuilt projects. Among those, we’ve [...]

In one of our all-time favorite movies-about-the-movies movies, Steve Martin’s Bowfinger, Eddie Murphy’s characted makes the astute observation that whenever there’s a character with a mental handicap contending for an acting Oscar they invariably win. That hypothesis isn’t completely bulletproof, but it’s pretty close. For instance, there’s an impressive number of Oscar-noms in BuzzFeed’s listicle [...]

Credit cards have to be among the most useless things in the world. Aside from their symbolic financial function – which, for most of us, is no longer valid – and the deceptive comfort factor of having a nicely padded wallet, they’re just cheaply made rectangles of embossed plastic with magnetic strips and computer chips [...]

This year’s fairly spectacular NHL Finals are headed down to the wire, with the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburg Penguins now duking it out in a best-of-three deathmatch (game one of which is tonight!). Pro hockey ain’t always so spectacularly tense, though, as The Angry T’s listicle of 12 Awkward NHL Fights demonstrates. The worst [...]

Tetris, the game that gave us bloody blisters and we kept playing, was first released 25 years ago today, and the world’s gamers have been hopelessly addicted ever since. To celebrate, mental_floss looks at some wannabes and homages in their listicle of 10 Variations on Tetris, although we’re a little surprised by the absence of [...]

There’s something remarkably satisfying about watching an animal beat up, humiliate or embarrass a human being, and really, we wish we could turn Tabloid Prodigy’s listicle of the 10 Funniest Videos of Animals Owning People into one long vidsticle that would stream continuously in our office. Since we have to pick one, though, it’ll have [...]