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Are screenwriters increasingly writing with our quote- and reference-prone culture in mind? You might get that impression while perusing Moviefone’s Top 25 Movie Moments of the 2000s

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We love listicles that bite off more than they can chew. Arguably this is the case with all lists, but it’s especially true of something so hotly contested and culture-spanning as viral videos. Heavy does an okay job keeping everybody happy with their listicle of the Top 10 Viral Videos of the 2000s dwnload avatar [...]

When we work out (which we haven’t in years), we usually forgo music in an attempt to be more “in the moment” and really “feel the burn,” which really means that we end up listening to crappy gym music. Next decade, if we go to the gym, we’ll totally listen to music as we jog [...]

When big centers dominated the NBA, the best dunks tended to be a little, um, underwhelming. Now that it’s all about small forwards and shooting guards again, though–Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, Dwayne Wade, Vince Carter, etc.–we’re seeing some of the best dunks in NBA history. Hoop Doctors’ short but sweet Top 5 NBA Dunks of [...]

When it comes to our favorite disguised heroes and villains from movies, TV, literature, theater and comics, we’re such Peeping Toms: we just want to see what’s under the gear. We should also take a look at the beautiful masks and costumes these beloved characters don to keep their identities a secret. Thankfully, graphic designer [...]

For all the new graphic design tools available for free and the innumerable designers graduating from art schools every year, there are still a shocking number of hideous images created by professional artists for very high profile clients every year, and this makes us sad. But it also makes us laugh when we get to [...]

Merry Christmas
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(if you’re into that), we’re honored that you’re reading this when you could be tearing into presents or drinking an eggnog eye-opener. At any rate, thanks for being here. We’ll take your presence as a sign that you’re not terribly excited by your Christmas offerings (unless, again, X-mas just isn’t your [...]

As you must know, we’re quite fond of Fail blogs Sigourney Weaver Dr. Grace Augustine of all sorts, and therefore we check in with the original, FAIL Blog, regularly. That also means that we’d already seen most of the videos and images they’ve assembled into the vidsticle of FAIL Blog’s Top 10 Fails of [...]

We’re big fans of unconventional advertising, because we think that especially good shorts by intelligent creative types won’t just push a product, but will actually make us think about something in a completely new way. That pretty well describes all the commercials featured in AdFreak’s listicle of The 30 Freakiest Ads of 2009, many of [...]

The Internet, digital and dematerialized though it may seem, is also a very real place in as much as it dictates how millions of people live their lives–not to mention its various physical and architectural manifestations in cables, processing centers, web infrastructure and so on. At any rate, like many real things that we don’t [...]

A we continue to cover the abundance of end-of-the-decade lists, we’d be remiss if we didn’t cover all those great sayings that infiltrated our popular parlance, such as those in Brobible’s listicle of The 50 Best Catch-Phrases of the 2000s. We applaud them for including Dave Chappelle’s “I’m Rick James, bitch!” at number 4, but [...]

Today is National Flashlight Day for some reason that we can’t quite make out in the darkness, but we imagine it has something to do with the invention of the first flashlight or maybe something really important like the first power generator was discovered by flashlight on this date. At any rate, we’d like to [...]

At one point we were very interested in growing an afro, not only because of the obvious cool factor, but also because at the time we were going through a serious case of Kleptomania, and it seemed like the perfect thing to smuggle lifted objects in. Unfortunately it proved much too difficult to groom and [...]

As more and more media outlets are exchanging news and information at an ever faster pace across increasingly huge distances, it’s bringing all kinds of random local news bits out into the flow of international. This phenomenon, we think, is how the Internet got a hold of the otherwise remote stories that make up Newsweek’s [...]

Presumably you witnessed Kobe Bryant’s two most recent feat of clock-stopping wonder, and presumably you’re aware that this is by no means his first such exploit. In fact there are so many that one could pick and choose amongst them to come up with the best, which is just what Hail Mary Jane has done [...]

For far too long now, porn has been ballyhooed as somehow culturally inferior, which, aside from the problematics of its sexual politics (and then again, what mainstream media industry doesn’t have widespread sexual politics issues?), has always seemed horribly unjust to us. The porn industry, among other things, is perhaps the most reliable source of [...]

Today is New Jersey Day, which originated as a celebration of the day that New Jersey joined the union back in 1787, so should presumably be celebrated with some kind of historical look back at the state’s important accomplishments. That’s what we started working on until we discovered that nothing important has ever happened in [...]

Once, during a long road trip around the Pacific Northwest the summer after high school, we stopped at a gas station somewhere near the Idaho-Montana state line, and there he was, ringing up our pump: Jesus. The flowing beard, the stunning eyes, the calm, warm voice, the Arco name tag reading “Jesus”: he had it [...]

This marks the first of many end-of-the-decade listicles that we’ll be looking at over the next couple of weeks, and we figured we’d kick off the retrospective festivities with a subject that we particularly enjoy: commercials. Perusing The Business Insider’s listicle of The 10 Most Important TV Commercials of the 2000s we came across some [...]

Today is Underdog Day, which actually has nothing to do with dogs overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds, but refers to a very obscure ship-building colloquialism whereby one builder had to take apart construction planks from below, becoming covered in sawdust in the process. He was the original underdog. We prefer the literal interpretation of the term, [...]