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Yesterday a huge typhoon hit Taiwan and China, and it’s still too early to accurately measure the death toll and damage, but estimates are grim. To get some appreciation of what it might have been like – and what any number of other massively destructive weather systems might be like – we’ve weathered The 10 [...]

Did you know that beloved Walt Disney character Donald Duck was “born” 75 years ago today? It’s true, apparently, and what better way to celebrate that truly unique quack than with a compilation of aborted, unsuccessful and ill-conceived alternates? For a 75 year-old you look great, Donald, much better than these 12 Creepy Versions of [...]

Today, we’re told, is Rooster Day – which, being half French, makes us a little tingly under the beret. Of course, the French only invented the rooster (hence why it is our national emblem), but now with immigration, globalization and whatnot there are all kinds of roosters. To celebrate just the choicest, tastiest of the [...]

It’s strange, but non-human characters can literally make or break a TV show, overloading it with excessive and contrived whimsy (as on American Dad), or giving it just the perfect dose of eccentricity to make it uniquely appealing (as in Alf). Not surprisingly, one of those shows is featured in Unreality’s listicle of the 11 [...]

Today is Rhode Island Independence Day, which seems counter intuitive, but is actually real. If you read the fine print, it all actually has to do with the fact that Rhode Island was technically the first of the 13 colonies to secede from the British, meaning that for a few hours-days-weeks-whatevers it was technically independent. [...]

In case you hadn’t noticed the conspicuously crowded skies since March 28, we’re at the mid-point of National Kite Month (which lasts through May 3). While you grapple futilely to contain your excitement at this news, may we suggest that before you join the thronging windward crowds of fair-weather flight fanatics you seek inspiration from [...]

The New York Times’s science section is having a Charles Darwin bonanza today to do with the publishing of his most famous work, On the Origin of Species, roughly 150 years ago (which would make this its sesquicentennial). So in honor of Darwin and all things Darwinian, Listicles will be looking at the evolution of [...]

Motivational speakers are one of those strangely American character types that we just can’t imagine existing anywhere else. In a society predicated on (sometimes illusory) social mobility, these are our often pathetic, sometimes sleazy coaches. To help us make sense of this American archetype, COED Magazine has pared them down to 5 Creepy Motivational Speakers, [...]

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 [...]

On this lovely sunny morning we learned that the U.S.A. has reached a 7.2% unemployment rate, a 16-year high. Though our souls immediately turned to despair and we sank our sorrows into an Irish coffee and a playlist of movies about economic hardship, we slowly realized that unemployment is one of the most vital trials [...]