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The movie to end all movies (and the world), 2012, comes out today, and we have to admit that there’s something to the succinct title that makes it rather catchy and epic-sounding. Of course, 2012 is hardly the first such year-titled movie.
It follows a long lineage of such films, including the subcategories of future year [...]

Hey, so, it’s basically Moon Week this week, with the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing coming up on Monday and tomorrow marking the date that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong lifted off in Apollo 11. Accordingly, every media outlet is knee-deep in nostalgic moon-gazing coverage, but we’re more interested in the ways that [...]

Really, we’ll stop posting graphic design projects by Dan Meth as soon as he stops coming up with brilliant ideas like his “Emomelon Days” music video or his 21 Movie Trilogies, but for now we bring you another graphisticle from the mind of Meth. The latest attempts to chart the confusing journeys through time of [...]

44 years ago today, Soviet astronaut Alexey Leonov performed the first spacewalk in human history (monkeys, meanwhile, had been spacewalking for decades). For the record, a spacewalk involves “extra-vehicular activity” while not on a planet, whereas a “moonwalk” involves gliding backwards on the surface of a planet (usually Earth or the moon). To commemorate Alexey’s [...]

We here at Listicles are devout fans of the Interweb’s possibilities for the remixing and mashing up (or is that “mashupping”?) of cultural artifacts and various audio visual tidbits. We especially like such culture-jamming when it thrives on the incongruity of its constitutive elements, like, say, the well-known M.O.P.-Sesame Street mash-up. That’s why we especially [...]

As we overdose on inauguration coverage today and tomorrow, we’ll be seeing so many American flags that by Wednesday we’ll think every blank surface is covered in stars and stripes. To complement the plethora of flags in today’s news coverage, we’ve been seeing a lot of a fictional flag being waved lately. All the commercials [...]