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We recently saw that new stitchpunk apocalypse movie 9, which was very pretty but a little thin on plot, but we did really enjoy the cool and crafty-looking cast of characters with number names. And, if you think about it, characters with such simple names as numbers tend to be disproportionately interesting and rich, as [...]

Over the weekend a massive 11-hour riot broke out at a jail in Chino, just outside Los Angeles. Between Saturday night and Sunday morning some 250 prisoners were injured, with over fifty ending up hospitalized. Though nobody was killed, and no prison employees were injured, the violence between black and Latino gangs did some pretty [...]

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 [...]

Thankfully, this listicle from Unreality doesn’t make any claims to being the be-all, end-all statement on movie robots, because otherwise they’d have to answer for these (and many more) cybernetic beings’ exclusion:

That said, aside from a typically absent sense of humor about movie-bot lore, we tend to agree with most of Unreality’s picks for 10 [...]

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 [...]

Those all-seeing pop culture humorists over at NextRound.net draw our attention to an underused accessory in the canon of screen fashion: the eye patch. Though their listicle includes some vital entries (Angelina Jolie in Sky Captain, Kurt Russell in Escape From New York, Rob Lowe in Austin Powers 2, among others), some golden celebrity eye [...]

With high-profile international shoe terrorism spiking over the weekend, in this installment of our weekly financial column Big Money Mondays we take a humbling look at the costs of this string of crimes that often go unreported (possibly because they are, more often than not, perpetrated by reporters).
Circa pre-recession times – but just in time [...]