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The second place winner in the recent VisionWorks competition, which sought new ideas and technologies to help create and sustain better living conditions, was an unusual proposal by Philipp Hermes that involves using track-mounted containers to ship objects, documents and goods around the city. Though the project, dubbed Urban Mole (pictured), sounds expensive, the beauty [...]

Let’s face it: by and large, baseball movies are among the worst kind of sports movies (which might have something to do with Kevin Costner’s disproportionate contribution to the sub-genre). Whatever it is, movies set in and around the baseball diamond can’t really compare to footballe, soccer, hockey and, yes, even basketball movies. That said, [...]

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 [...]

Part of why we missed yesterday’s Super Bowl was because our TV is rather pathetic and wasn’t really up to the scale of the action going down in Tampa (we also doubt it would have known what to do with all the 3-D craziness). We’ve now resolved to acquire a better TV, and are dedicating [...]

As we overdose on inauguration coverage today and tomorrow, we’ll be seeing so many American flags that by Wednesday we’ll think every blank surface is covered in stars and stripes. To complement the plethora of flags in today’s news coverage, we’ve been seeing a lot of a fictional flag being waved lately. All the commercials [...]

With the past looking increasingly nice as compared to today’s recession-times, and tense holidays making us wish we could just accelerate into 2009 and beyond, the good-natured movie addicts at Unreality bring us this list: The 10 Best Movies Based On Time Travel. A classic trope of action and sci-fi film plots, the pool of [...]

As ads increasingly colonize every available space (Thirsty? Grab a Coke!), USAToday reports on the latest annexed blank surface: high school tests. Oh, the children! Public places like malls, streets, and buildings are one thing, but think of the children!
With creative space-invasion in mind, BusinessWeek brings us this slideshow list of 13 creatively placed [...]