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Paper money is pretty amazing, beyond the strange suspension of disbelief involved in assigning some very abstract value to some relatively insignificant pieces of paper and cotton, but also for all the weird and unusual uses you can put it to. No, don’t worry, this is not the intro to our pyramid scheme pitch (although, [...]

Our laptop used to overheat every five minutes, which was great when we needed an excuse not to do an assignment, but also made for some of the most fast and furious work sessions in the history of computers. We would sit in the middle of a room full of fans, hoping the extra air [...]

True story: one of our best friends’ mothers growing up was one of Canada’s leading quilters. She would travel around the world (though never into space) attending quilting conferences and the like. She used the family’s garage as her workshop, and had the largest Canadian flag in the world stored there in several boxes. Why [...]

Credit cards have to be among the most useless things in the world. Aside from their symbolic financial function – which, for most of us, is no longer valid – and the deceptive comfort factor of having a nicely padded wallet, they’re just cheaply made rectangles of embossed plastic with magnetic strips and computer chips [...]

205 years ago today, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark struck out from their training sessions at Camp Dubois, Illinois Territory, on their epic journey with their rag-tag group the Corps of Discovery (which, in case you think the same way we do, is already a band’s name). The epic, madcap journey that would go down [...]

On this date some years ago, research tells us, the first modern submarine was completed. Not surprisingly, it was the result of a major military research and development project, and a virtually limitless budget. What about the little guys, though? What about the toolshed handymen and wannabe mermaids (to indulge all manner of gendered stereotypes) [...]

It’s really quite sad how bad we (the cultural “we” and the Listicles “we”) have gotten at taking care of our own clothes. We can still manage to sew a button and if the situation gets dire we might hem a pair of pants, but repairing holes in sock? No way. To boot the number [...]

Welcome back for the third edition of Listicles’ weekly round-up of all the nifty short-form moving image ephemera we come across in a given seven day period. There’s always more than we can squeeze into a three video post, so know that each installment of Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos is the result of a stressful, [...]

It’s been Spring-like warm in New York for two days now, and we’re having an epic battle with our clothing closet figuring out what we can still wear in this weather and what we buried months ago in hopes it might disappear.
Rather than re-bury everything, why not make use of all that stylish fabric by [...]

We here at Listicles are pretty devout design buffs, but the Interweb has a way of generating such a wealth of visually stunning design, art and architecture listicles that we really don’t have the time or space to pass them onto you.
Our catch-up list-of-lists, Weekly Wednesdays, is the perfect venue for us to give the [...]