On this date in 1962, the seminal Halloween hit “The Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers reached the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100. Because this was way back in the day before real music videos, however, no official visual accompaniment for the song exists. This has allowed innumerable artists to [...]

For a little while now we’ve been obsessed with GOOD Magazine’s insanely beautiful infographics, but frankly also a little too embarrassed to seek out others. Inspired Magazine seems to have read our minds (get out of our head!) and have rounded up 20 Essential Infographics & Data Visualization Blogs. Our favorite is Information is Beautiful, [...]

As you may have heard, recently, Fox announced its intentions to develop a television program based on the popular blog Texts from Last Night, which will be the most fractured and disjointed TV show ever, but might work in a trashy-beautiful-basket-cases-being-naughty kind of way. At any rate, pending that project, the good people at Complex [...]

While we generally find emoticons silly and pointless and another, rather terrifying example of how digital communication is fast reducing our ability to express genuine, complex emotions in actual words (maybe even sentences!), some of them make up for whatever semantic damage they may do with sheer creativity. Such is the case with a small [...]

As Know Your Meme explained to us a relatively long time ago, one-take video have a special viral appeal and optimum meme compatibility due to their impressive displays of synchronization and the creative endurance that makes a one-take video possible. Appropriately, with the recent success of the Université du Québec à Montréal students’ viral vid, [...]

As perhaps the subculture that has embraced Internet meme culture with the greatest enthusiasm, hip hop has produced some of the most memorable cross-over mainstream web memes. StreetLevel recounts some of the funnest in their listicle of The 9 Best Hip Hop Memes, from consciously created movements like Souljah Boy’s “Crank Dat” dance or the [...]

Obviously, making fun of the nuttier things people post on Craigslist is almost too easy, since these poor anonymous posters really have no way to defend themselves. On the other hand, it’s a free site and you’re asking for it when you post the kind of insane stuff featured in the Huffington Post’s hilarious listicle [...]

We’re pretty fond of nifty and creative ad campaigns, even insidious viral commercials that pretend to be something else. We especially applaud the innovative thinkers and crafty designers who make such things so seamlessly realistic. That, in turn, means it’s an awful shame when all their efforts go to waste, as seems to be the [...]

It’s easy to forget, in these days of handheld devices and interactive, hyper-dynamic web design, that websites were pretty much hideously ugly 10 years ago. Or maybe our aesthetic standards have changed and they actually seemed acceptable at the time. Either way, perusing the Telegraph’s listicle of How 20 Popular Sites Looked When They Launched [...]

Maybe it’s because buildings tall and short seem to be slapped together over a few weeks or a couple months these days, or maybe people just realize that watching long construction processes reduced to a 20-second video is really cool, but we’ve become addicted to time-lapse clips of epic skyscrapers rising from their foundations [...]