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 [...]

Some abstract art is a little too much for us, like two-toned paintings of geometric shapes, which we can only process for so long before losing interest. That said, if it’s abstract and moving, then we’re totally into it, which is why we’re so fond of video art that just involves the play of shapes [...]

Ever notice how atmospheric science fiction thrillers have their heroes gazing down ominous hallways before they finally meet the true objects of their fear (be they alien, human, otherworldly or psychological)? The creepy corridor is a sci-fi staple and the meticulous artistry that goes into conveying the off-screen threat is truly something to behold, as [...]

Weirdly, cinema is especially great at cannibalizing its greatest failures and turning them into films about how hard it is to make films. Such meta-cinematic exercises figure among our favorite movies ever, as you’ll no doubt agree while flipping through The Onion A.V. Club’s listicle of 27 Movies About the Difficulty of Making Movies. While [...]

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 [...]

We’ve recently featured some videos of tall buildings going up real fast, and other buildings coming down or ripping apart very fast, but one style of structure seems especially pre-disposed to controlled detonation: the sports stadium. Just look at Super Tremendous’ listicle of The 7 Greatest Sports Stadium Demolitions, which features some great arena take-downs, [...]

Of all the world’s massive and mysterious monuments, the easiest to copy (save perhaps the pyramids) must be Stonhenge – provided you ignore the problem of how its multiple-ton blocks were lifted into place before modern machinery. Regardless, recent replicas abound. Inexplicably, the great Pi Stonehenge (also known as Stonehenge 3.141…) was left out of [...]

As kids, obviously, we dreamt of living in a house made of candy. When we tested the idea out with a scale model, though, things like rain and snow proved to be rather problematic. We’re not sure how some of the dwellings in Now That’s Nifty’s listicle of 10 Houses Made from Odd Materials would [...]

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 [...]

We live nearer than we’d like to a Hell’s Angels chapter. They’re irritating not because they seem violent or dangerous – by all accounts they’re very nice – but because they pass under our window nightly roaring engines that sound an awful lot like jackhammers. If we were rich we’d clandestinely substitute their gnarly Harleys [...]