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In this edition of our weekly catch-up list of lists, we take an especially close look at the holiday gift list trend that is kicking into high gear. With every publication producing at least one gift guide around this time, Listicles brings you the silliest (number 5), most budget-savvy (number 3), quickest (number 4), most [...]

With today’s news that Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich was essentially auctioning off President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant senate seat to whomever could promise him and his wife the best career boosts, the Windy City’s historical tendency towards corruption has come full circle (how fitting that such news should break on International Anti-Corruption Day).
With that history [...]

In a strange moment of list community synergy, our friends at NextRound.net and io9.com both published lists today lampooning the strained efforts of a leading blockbuster buff. The former offers five touchstone moments in Keanu Reeves and the Lost Art of Bad Acting, while the latter chronicles Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 10 Greatest Acting Challenges.
Despite similar themes, [...]

The year-end list onslaught continues, this morning with Entertainment Weekly’s retrospective list of the 15 Most (and Least) Stylish Movie Characters of 2008. Important detail: the characters have to display fashion sense, but the movies they inhabit can be (and some were) completely awful. Culled from the list of 15, here are EW’s top 3 [...]