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One of our recent listicles featured a film in which a giant praying mantis decimated a military base, but, amazingly, that monster pales in comparison to some of the more far-fetched B-Movie monsters that have terrorized American cities over the last 60 years. mental_floss counts down 9 Ridiculous B-Movie Monsters, which includes parasites, leeches, over-sexed [...]

We don’t “heart” the “I Heart NY” shirt because, well, it’s just too popular. Wearing that shirt is like saying you love something that we all love, like air, it’s pointless. Still, whoever came up with the “I Heart ____” tee shirt template must be rolling in dough these days. Or maybe he or she [...]

At the end of the week, a brand new science-themed mini golf course will be opening at the Hall of Science in Queens, New York, and though that seems an awfully conventional (and predictably pedantic) choice of golf course theme, we’re convinced there’s stranger and more exciting out there. So we hit the links all [...]

Well, let’s face it, when your TV show was created by a toy manufacturing company as a narrative advertisement for young boys, it’s no surprise that you find yourself reaching for ridiculous plots and characters pretty quickly. Such is the case with the Transformers series (whose latest reiteration hits theaters next week), which featured some [...]

When we turned 7, our parents got us this really cool ice cream birthday cake in the shape of a triceratops, and it was pretty much the best gift we could have imagined. Of course that was the year Jimmy, the disfigured kid from next door showed up, and his uncanny resemblance to our cool [...]

Remember the innumerable flocks of winged murderers in The Birds? Well, those were mostly crows and gulls and it was scary, imagine how terrifying that would be if they were bald eagles or pterodactyls or something. Well, this family is totally unfazed and even feeds the birds that visit them in this vidsticle of 50 [...]

Today is Eat What You Want Day, and it says a lot about our messed up relationship to food, nutrition and all things health-related that we need a special day to eat the things we otherwise won’t allow ourselves to eat. That being said, in the spirit of the day we’ll venture something beyond our [...]

Today, for no apparent reason we’ve managed to discover in our research, is Plumber’s Day. Plumbers had an unusually big year in 2008, what with the whole Joe the Plumber meme, now reporting live from Israel. Mostly, though, plumbing is a thankless (and surprisingly lucrative) job that doesn’t even have a celebrity spokesperson. Well, they [...]

One doesn’t think about it much as a child, but kids’ toys tend to be really strange, and it’s sometimes surprising that they were ever created to begin with (like Dino-Riders). Remember Lincoln Logs? Turns out they were created by an architect’s son – John Lloyd Wright – and included instructions for a model of [...]

Remember dinosaurs? Not actual dinosaurs, obvs, but the dinosaur toys of your youth. Whatever happened to those? Did they go extinct or something or just evolve into chickens? We sure hope they’re still around, or that a wealthy bearded scientist with a flair for entertainment can reverse-engineer some in a movie by a wealthy bearded [...]