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No doubt you heard about how Manu Ginobili of the San Antonio Spurs picked a bothersome bat right out of the air during a basketball game last week, but mental_floss seizes upon the occasion to remember similar occurrences with their listicle of 10 Times Animals Have Interrupted Sporting Events. We especially enjoyed this seagull’s contribution [...]

Birds are cool and all, but their flying abilities are totally passé at this point. After all, ever since we were all delivered via stork to our parents, we’ve been all too aware that birds can fly (and man, do they ever like to show it off!). How about giving some love to the other [...]

In a New York Times article today, folks from Wal-Mart muse that while every other retailer in the U.S. is hemorrhaging funds and customers, they’re doing great thank you very much. While we think Wal-Mart is one of the single most evil things in the world, we’re at least glad that their success will likely [...]

So today is the last day of New York Fashion Week, and from what we’ve gathered there have been some really cool hat designs showcased on the runways. Today also happens to be Love Your Pet Day (seriously), so we’ve decided to merge our love of pets and our trend-following fashion obsession into to this [...]

With 2009 upon us and its anticipated financial crises, meltdowns and other shorthands for disaster hogging the headlines, let’s not lose sight of that other crisis, the environmental one. Working out more and being more careful with money are great New Year resolutions for you, but what about the royal, interconnected, mutually dependent “us”?
So start [...]