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Couches aren’t just for hiding drugs and losing coins in, you can get anything in there. Like pets. After all, what kind of domestic animal doesn’t have at least one completely ridiculous and inaccessible hiding spot? Why, that’s what keeps them in touch with their animal instincts, surely. In which case, the pets in Urlesque’s [...]

The other morning, during an especially zippy bike ride to work, we wondered how fast we were going; surely a bicycle speedometer can’t be that expensive. This go us to thinking that perhaps it would be more interesting to gauge our morning commute using some other unit of measurement – cars overtaken, red lights ignored, [...]

Though there’s been much debate over which bear should grace the WWF’s logotype (panda or polar?), there are inumerable visually stunning, ecologically essential species just as badly in need of help. TreeHugger shows us some such animals in their listicle of 10 Underexposed Endangered Species. That environmental conservation superstar-in-waiting at right is the Iberian Lynx [...]

Fans of product design and strange gadgetry that we are, our fashion sense tends to be a few micro-seconds behind the very tippy point of the cutting edge. That’s why Listicles’ seizes upon every opportunity to marry our love of the obscure and bizarre to high fashion and style. One such opportunity recently fell right [...]

This week the news (at least the really important news) has been all about animals getting jobs once performed by humans. First we learned about service dogs that fetch their owners water and do their laundry, then we read that the city of Mesa, Arizona had laid off its lawnmower operators and hired goats to [...]

Those tireless recyclers and re-users over at TreeHugger point us to the results of a Chilean design competition co-sponsored by Remade in Chile and Puma. The goal put to design students was to create useful and/or pleasant objects from old Puma sneakers and promotional materials. Here are the most impressive results, 8 Objects Fashioned from [...]

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 [...]