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Happy Chinese New Year, and welcome to the year of the ox. Because we here at Listicles embrace multiculturalism of only the most tokenistic variety (is multiculturalism tokenistic by definition? Discuss), we offer our predictions for the year ahead by way of China’s traditional oracular authority, the fortune cookie.
Actually, fortune cookies have typically been served [...]

We here at Listicles are very much in denial of recessionomics. We don’t buy the idea that we won’t be able to buy another yacht every year, or get each of our kids a slick hybrid car for their middle school, high school and college graduations, or that there’s something fundamentally unsustainable about blowing $1,830 [...]

Onesie here with another edition of Listicles’ weekly sports column, Sporty Saturdays. Since it’s a quiet time for my other gigs like freelance mascot work (most leagues are in their off-seasons right now) and sports writing (most publications are cutting back on freelance sports coverage), I’ve had lots of time lately to catch up on [...]

Slightly less time-sensitive than other year-end lists, compilations of hilarious and/or excruciatingly painful falls are nonetheless an especially apt metaphor for the year 2008. Our friends over at NextRound.net, it just so happens, have come across the following video-listicle (”vidsticle”?), which we now pass along to you, dear readers, to satisfy all your immediate nostalgia [...]

With our media cycles accelerating to the point of time travel, some great 2009 lists caught our eye before the year even began. More risky than lists that summarize past events, we especially like prediction lists for offering a thrilling vision of what the future might look like. To get an idea of what the [...]

We’re nearly a week into January, but let us trouble you with a few more year-end listicles from Music Blog Zeitgeist 2008. Hype Machine, aggregator of music blog mp3s, is rolling out the best songs, albums and artists of the year in a very scientific audit of the blogosphere. The countdown ends January 9th, but [...]

Since the big New Year’s Eve night is on a Wednesday this year, we figure the previous and following weekends should really extend into the week from either side to form an amorphous ten day-long blob of non-stop partying.
To keep us going throughout those marathon days and nights, Listicles has gone looking for some drink [...]

Post your own shoe photos at Thank You For Throwing Your Shoe (via BuzzFeed)
2008 Mug Shots of the Year (via Urlesque)
It snowed in Malibu!
And Vegas!
The cast of How I Met Your Mother re-enact 2008’s best moments for Entertainment Weekly
Scarlett Johansson’s used tissue up for auction (via The Daily What)
A Belgian agency lets you do the [...]

One of the big year-end lists comes to us today from the rulers of all things online, Google, who released the findings of their annual search tabulations on their Google Zeitgeist 2008 site. The whole Googlegeist site is full of fascinating findings (like that New Zealanders are really into the new hadron collider or that [...]

It’s hard to remember all of the great things that came out of this year when you’re at your parents’ house, hopped up on eggnog and listening to the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas album on repeat. Rex Sorgatz does the dirty work for all of us, indexing every best-of list out there, from architecture to fashion [...]