We’ve long wondered how we’d handle being in space, what effects it would have on our body and psyche. We’d like to think we would never go Moon- or Solaris-crazy, but who knows. Hopefully we wouldn’t go quite as crazy as the interplanetarily insane folks featured in io9’s listicle of the Top 10 Mental Cases [...]

Few things, you’ll surely agree, are more exciting than a swash-buckling big-screen battle of sword-wielding opponents. As with actual human history, some of the greatest and most significant disputes in film history have been resolved at sword-point. The rich canon of bladed throwdowns gets a loving tribute in Gunaxin’s listicle of 10 Memorable Movie Swordfights, [...]

As kids we were total trampoline addicts – we were on that thing all the time, and though we never came away with any serious injuries or even substantial some of our friends took some mighty impressive tumbles. We never ever broke a trampoline, although a rather heavy-set friend of ours definitely bent his out [...]

Today is TV Dinner Day, which is a fancy way of saying that the first TV dinner was sold by Swanson 55 years ago today. Fortunately we arrived late enough on the scene that we weren’t raised on those seminal ready-made meals, but looking over some of the flavors of yore, we suddenly feel like [...]

You know what the beginning of Fall means (especially on college campuses): football! Seriously, though, the college football that will get us through the next few months is just getting started, and we’re a little overwhelmed with all the statistics and studies that we’re already behind on. Complex contributes another slightly overwhelming set of stats [...]

We often have a hard time articulating why we might be bad parents, but usually a visual explanation is much more effective. Imagining ourselves as parents calls to mind some of the unfortunate up-bringers (and their even more unfortunate charges) featured in Banned In Hollywood’s listicle of Funny Photos of 20 Terrible Parents (which is [...]

In the ongoing saga of the latest plague to hit roads and highways the world over, people who can’t keep themselves from texting on their cell phones while at the wheel are killing themselves and others. Maybe we should start organizing Texters Anonymous meetings for them? Whatever has to be done about it, texting and [...]

Advertising condoms is, by its very nature, a tricky business, since one has to ride a fine line between being too explicit in reference to sex, while also not being so oblique that people misunderstand what’s being sold. More than other condom companies, Durex has had a fun time playing with that line, deploying double [...]

Obviously, talk shows are generally a totally depthless and unexciting genre of television that pretty much never registers a blip on the old excitement-meter – all the planned and approved questions, teleprompted jokes, applause signs and elaborately choreographed “surprise” appearances. Every so often, though, a meticulously planned late evening’s programing can still go awry, as [...]

We’ve never been big on baseball, but like NASCAR, we understand the appeal of a hobby with such an obvious potential for pain and injury. In fact, the only time we really watch baseball highlights anymore is when we’ve heard about a good fight (like the recent Red Sox-Tigers throwdown) or a painful pitch gone [...]