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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 [...]

From what we understand, different animals have vastly different sexual tendencies, proclivities, tastes and titillations. Some (like beavers) are monogamous to the bitter end, while others (like cheetahs) are known to sleep around as they see fit. That’s all highly irrelevant in Best Week Ever’s listicle of 50 Slutty Animals, wherein animals are dressed like [...]

We don’t want to keep you at your screen too long on this lazy Sunday (surely you should be out finding and eating unhealthy quantities of chocolate eggs), but we strongly recommend taking a moment to browse Unreality’s hilarious listicle of 25 Funny Pictures of Darth Vader. Our favorite – though it pains us to [...]

If you know much about architectural history, you’ll know that the names of architecture firms used to sound an awful lot like law firms (eg. McKim, Mead, and White, Walker O. Cain & Associates, Emery Roth & Sons, etc.). Now, however, they tend to sound like trashy nightclubs, for instance: Asymptote, Morphosis (at right), OMA, [...]

Yesterday was National Hot Dog Day, and we were so busy stuffing our faces that we forgot to mention it. This morning a prompt memo arrived in our inbox from the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council (hereafter referred to as the NHDSC), who organized the celebration, notifying us of this tragic oversight. To make [...]

Long heralded for their magical fitness applications, exercise balls seem to be used inappropriately more often than not, which results in some outrageous footage and photos. YepYep chronicles some of these with their Top 10 Exercise Ball Ownage Videos. While many of them are unpleasant as they involve little kids getting hit with balls twice [...]

Will our kids look back on our favorite digital and electronic pastimes like The Sims and Second Life and think we were crazy? Or, more likely, will they only know us by our immortal pixelized avatars? Either way, we’re fairly confident that none will compare to the wacky games featured in Neatorama’s listicle of The [...]

Yes, a good office prank can make a dreary day slaving away in a cubicle slightly less oppressive. If you’re looking for some inspiration for April 1st, check out Best Article Every Day’s listicle of 5 Great Office Pranks. Some of them are way too elaborate to be reproduced, but some are feasible, like this [...]

In case you hadn’t noticed, we love us some creative commercials. And while it’s sad that we’re in such an advanced stage of capitalism that one of the most potent arenas for creativity is the marketing of consumer commodities, we still see some sort of consciousness-raising value in unsettling ads like these 6 Strangely Funny [...]