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A scary and strange news item earlier this week had to do with a Continental Airlines flight between Rio de Janeiro and Houston that encountered such intense turbulence that it had to make an emergency landing in Miami, where 26 passengers were treated for injuries. Many drew parallels to the recent Air France crash, although [...]

The first zeppelin (named after inventor Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, seriously) took to the skies exactly 109 years ago, and though we’re a little sad they didn’t catch on as well as the airplane, we suppose all the flammable gases and whatnot are a plenty good reason. At any rate, to celebrate that 109th anniversary, [...]

With the NBA playoffs reaching their climax (although without the Celtics, which saddens us), what better time for a symbolic purge of all the crappy play we don’t want to have to deal with in the weeks ahead? Happily, Screen Junkies has done just that with their listicle of The 10 Worst Basketball Scenes in [...]

Do you remember that episode of The Simpsons where Lisa has her future told at a country fair, and the whole show is about her impending marriage to an uptight Brit a dozen or so years in the future? Well, at one point they land in London (whose Big Ben clocktower is now digital), and [...]

Every time there’s a major auto show in town or cool new future epic at the multiplex, we get a little carried away fantasizing about transportation for the future. Like those cool Lexus pods from Minority Report. Turns out that snappy concept cars and the like have existed since at least 1938, when the Buick [...]

After we bragged to you about our flashy new solar boat a while back, we realized that what was the cutting edge of sustainable transportation some months back had swiftly become its dull butter knife. In that spirit, we’re plotting our next green machine purchase: a fuel-efficient aircraft. At first we were thinking about a [...]

A few days back Listicles offered what we believed to be wise advice on re-distributing some especially unjust-seeming corporate perks being offered CEOs and executives, some of which pertained to the use of corporate jets. Today, Gawker’s Ryan Tate muses that perhaps all corporate vehicles of flight should go the eBay way, especially considering the [...]

It’s inauguration day, the second sort-of holiday in a row for many Americans, and as with every festive occasion in our great land, it’s a perfect occasion to peddle completely useless gifts. Over the last few days we’ve witnessed a veritable internet groundswell of items about Barack Obama memorabilia (hereafter “Obamarabilia” for short). In a [...]

Last time our weekly psychoanalysticle ended on a video of an airplane flying suggestively through a monument. Though the video served to help illustrate the idea that some monuments derive symbolic power from their yonic shape, it turns out to have been uncannily prophetic. That Freudian slip foreshadowed this week’s installment of Freudian Fridays, which [...]

We here at Listicles are finally planning our New Year’s Eve party (a little late, we know, we know). Aside from obsessively fine-tuning the booze and guest lists, we’ve blown the majority of our budget on silly party gifts. With that in mind, we won’t be able to invite all of you, dear readers, because [...]