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Don’t let the relatively small regional audiences and occasionally mundane stories get you fooled, local news is a high-pressure media arena, and in many ways the lack of major funding forces reporters to go beyond their normal comfort zones more often. Two recent listicles explored the various failures of these overworked and underpaid professionals, mental_floss [...]

A very interesting article in yesterday’s New York Times explains that our brains are often at their most active, creative and effective when trying to process bad instructions, misinformation, or trying to find patterns when no signs are present. The accompanying image (pictured) shows a blank road sign on a desert road, which got us [...]

Obviously, trying to whittle the field of outstanding Jewish comedians down to a choice twenty will invariably yield some problems, exaggerations and blind spots, and we’re mostly happy with how mental_floss handled the not inconsiderable task. That said, we really don’t like Seth Rogen and don’t understand why he made their list of the Top [...]

We just spent all night playing around with and printing the various signs, posters, magazine covers, tombstones, LOLCats, seals, stamps, etc. that can be generated using the great web apps covered in Mashable’s listicle of 13 Fantastic and Fun Image Generators. If we had to pick a favorite (we’d rather not) it would have to [...]

Let’s face it, at some point we all wanted to be ninjas (in some cases ninja turtles, ninja surfers, or even three ninjas). And we’ve probably all had some embarrassing moments of aspiring ninja combat gone horribly wrong. For instance, we remember jumping just a little too high in a room with dangerously low ceiling [...]

Did you know that in Australia “fanny” means “vagina”? It’s true, and it means that whenever an American discusses their fanny or fanny pack within earshot of an Australian, the latter can’t help but laugh. Following that logic, we imagine our Australian readers will get a huge kick out of BuzzFeed’s listicle of 42 Awkward [...]

There’s something remarkably satisfying about watching an animal beat up, humiliate or embarrass a human being, and really, we wish we could turn Tabloid Prodigy’s listicle of the 10 Funniest Videos of Animals Owning People into one long vidsticle that would stream continuously in our office. Since we have to pick one, though, it’ll have [...]

We realize that videos of cats and dogs are a pretty clear harbinger of the end of Western culture at the very least and possibly the end of civilization as we know it, but Best Week Ever’s listicle of 10 Videos of Cats in Small Shirts is just so cute. No, we mean, it’s really [...]

We’d like to be out there today, running through the parks and streets, raising a ruckus and making memories with a posse of cohorts. Unfortunately, it’s raining here in New York, and all we have to run around in is the expansive universe called the Interweb. So we’ll have to do our hanging out and [...]

Granted, we’re still celebrating the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth, but who’s to say that in our modern, enlightened age, the controversial clash between science and religion, nature and nuttiness, can’t be resolved? What if we told you that many animals are religiously dedicated to, well, religion? Don’t believe us? We suggest you educate yourselves [...]