Money is just money, after all, just silly pieces of metal and paper we’ve assigned arbitrary value to, so what’s the point in having it if you can’t have fun with it? One way to do just that is to treat the stuff as a medium rather than a means to an end, as the [...]

A good friend of ours once went to Chinatown to look for a cheap, fake Gucci purse. After some searching she stumbled into the back of a store where beautiful fake handbags hung from the ceiling like stalactites growing from a cave roof in a calcium-rich mountain range. She bought an imitation Gucci purse, proud [...]

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 Aside from their symbolic financial function – which, for most of us, is no longer valid – and the deceptive comfort factor of having a nicely padded wallet, they’re just cheaply made rectangles of embossed plastic with magnetic strips and computer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 [...]

You know, our less worldly friends often comment, on those rare occasions they come out from under their bubbly rock of a country, that other nations’ colorful currencies (Euros, Canadian dollars, Indian rupees, etc.) look silly. Of course, when the salmon-tinged $20 bills debuted, the Treasury Department’s commercial campaign was some seriously silly waste of [...]

In Obama’s push to expand the nation’s research apparatus, we wonder how much of the money being mobilized will be set aside specifically for ficitonal movie research firms. After all, without the Tyrell Company we wouldn’t have Blade Runner, without InGen there’d be no Jurassic Park, and of course Batman would be pretty useless without [...]

Today is May Day! Get out of the office and go unionize some exploited workers or something. Failing that, waste some company money and time checking out our listicle of 14 Priceless Capitalist Costumes. Workers of the world dress up!
The Pot of Gold

She’s got the Midas touch.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Especially with web video, when a moment of boredom is enough for viewers to lose interest and click away, educational and informative texts have to be extra-cool to keep people watching. In this edition of Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos, we look at some particularly successful examples. We hope you enjoy (and are somewhat enlightened by) [...]

Funny how we can invent all kinds of alien species, evil supervillains, mysterious dark forces and such, but when it comes to great sci-fi baddies nothing’s much more effective than an evil corporation. io9 rounds up some 15 Evil Corporations in Science Fiction – including, of course, Blade Runner’s Tyrell Corporation, Weyland-Yutani of Alien franchise [...]